Verse 28-29

So if you fix
On the seen outside,
It is different from you
The seer.
Everything you see
The seeing is within.
It is like the sound
Separate from the instruments
The fire, apart from the wood,
Beyond the specificities, which
We swallow, when we experience.

If you just stay with the experience of hearing a sound, beyond the myriad forms and tunes, there is the sound and that is within you. Beyond our specific differences, there is just the experience of touching another human being. And that is within us.

Verses 26-27

And before the mirror is there,
You have a face
that
Standing before the mirror
Watches its reflection.
Watching seems like
Seeing self,
But it is not.

Changya, we are like mirrors to each other. Don’t get fooled by the reflections that we are different beings. Different persons, yes.

Verses 22-25

Scenes conjured up
Make for the seer of the world
And seeing is lame
To bridge the gap
Between the seer and the seen.

When there is nothing to see
What use of sight?
When there is nothing to see
Where is the seer?

Thus the scene brings along
The sight and the seer.
Once dissolved, the other
Two disappear as well.

So the one reality
Divides itself into three
And once the illusion goes,
It’s the same reality back again.

The underlying process of seeing, scene and the seer escapes our attention. The act is what brings the categories into existence. So dear Changdeva, attend to this a little, will you?

Verses 20-21

When you see your face
in the mirror,
Do you attribute seeing
to the mirror?
Futile is such
seeing of impressions.
I am the seer, the seen
and the seeing. Distinctions
lead to impressions,
Sages have said.

When you delve deeper into perceptions, you realize that perceptions are nothing but confirmations of your impressions, which take off from the distinction of you as separate from the reality.

Verse 19

In the turns and twists
Of the yarn
There is nothing but the yarn;
In the same way, the seer, the seen
And the seeing are not threesome
But one and the same trinity.

The three-way split is an appearance, but in essence we are together, one and the same, but appear made and unmade of the same.