The Buddha-Carita or The Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 150
aviśeṣa viśeṣajña pratibuddhāprabuddhayoḥ |
praktīnā ca yo veda so ’viśeṣa iti smtaḥ || 12.29
29. ‘That state of mind is called "indiscrimination," O thou who art discriminating,
which thinks there is no difference between the illuminated and the unwise, and
between the different evolvents.
namaskāravaṣaṭkārau prokṣaṇābhyukṣaṇādayaḥ |
anupāya iti prājñairupāyajña praveditaḥ || 12.30
30. ‘Uttering "namas" and "vaṣaṭ," sprinkling water upon sacrifices, &c. with or
without the recital of Vedic hymns, and such like rites, — these are declared by the
wise to be "false means," O thou who art well skilled in true means.
sajjate yena durmedhā manovākkarmabuddhibhiḥ |
viṣayeṣvanabhiṣvaga so ’bhiṣvaga iti smtaḥ || 12.31
31. ‘That is called "inordinate attachment," by which the fool is entangled in external
objects through his mind, speech, actions, and thoughts, O thou who hast shaken
thyself free from all attachments.
mamedamahamasyeti yadduḥkhamabhimanyate |
vijñeyo ’bhyavapātaḥ sa sasāre yena pātyate || 12.32
32. ‘The misery which a man imagines by the ideas "This is mine," "I am connected
with this," is to be recognised as "gravitation," — by this a man is borne downwards
into new births.
ityavidyā hi vidvāsaḥ pacaparvā samīhate |
tamo moha mahāmoha tāmisradvayameva ca || 12.33
33. ‘Thus Ignorance, O ye wise, being fivefold in its character, energises towards
torpor, delusion, the great delusion, and the two kinds of darkness. 1
tatrālasya tamo viddhi moha mtyu ca janma ca |
mahāmohastvasamoha kāma ityavagamyatām || 12.34
34. ‘Know, that among these indolence is "torpor," death and birth are "delusion," and
be it clearly understood, O undeluded one, that desire is the "great delusion."
yasmādatra ca bhūtāni pramuhyati mahātyapi |
tasmādeṣa mahābāho mahāmoha iti smtaḥ || 12.35
35. ‘Since by it even the higher beings are deluded, therefore, O hero, is this called the
"great delusion."
1 Cf. Sākhyakārikā, 48.