What is structured by the will is seen where there is will;
What is therein seen is also not elsewhere in another place, like the snake and rope (error).
Commentary
In this verse the sage declares that what is seen is structured by the will. We "see" what we mentally conceive and forcefully will. What is seen is not elsewhere but in truth is within one erroneously conceived to be outside. The poet-seer Kalidasa confirms this. "The cosmos comprised of the perceiver, the perceived and perception, with all its parts, exists in you before you thought." This is a unique statement that only an enlightened poet like Kalidasa could make.
The wise man is not deceived and here the sage uses the well known snake and rope illustration. The wise man who knows that the visible world is a structure of the will becomes spiritually strong, and in the words of the Sakti Sutra, "When he obtains strength he makes the cosmos his own." There is no longer any confusion between the real and the imagined.