sukha-duḥkha-prado nÄnyaḥ
puruá¹£asyÄtma-vibhramaḥ
mitrodÄsÄ«na-ripavaḥ
saá¹sÄras tamasaḥ ká¹›taḥ
sukha-duḥkha-pradaḥ - giver of happiness and distress; na - there is no; anyaḥ - other; puruá¹£asya - of the soul; Ätma - of the mind; vibhramaḥ - bewilderment; mitra - friends; udÄsÄ«na - indifferent parties; ripavaḥ - and enemies; saá¹sÄraḥ - material life; tamasaḥ - out of ignorance; ká¹›taḥ - created.
No other force besides his own mental confusion makes the soul experience happiness and distress. His perception of friends, neutral parties and enemies and the whole material life he builds around this perception are simply created out of ignorance.
Everyone is working hard to please their friends, defeat their enemies and maintain the status quo with neutral parties. These relations are certainly based on the material body and do not exist beyond the body’s inevitable demise. They are called ignorance, or material illusion.
