Mudra

Always alive in Him, they do not find Him until they are dead to themselves.
Always alive, but sleeping, they do not awaken until they wake to Him.
Always free from this world, they are prisoners until they let go of the world.
His living creatures wander in death, and imagine they are alive.
His sleeping children revel in dreams, and imagine they are awake.
He has set them all free, but still they cling to the chains of this world.
The world does not bind them, except that they bind themselves to the world.
These self-imprisoned ones imagine that life is death and death is life, for they lack perception.