सर्वभूतानि सम्मोहं सर्गे यान्ति परन्तप ॥ २७ ॥
icchādveṣasamutthena dvandvamohena bhārata .
sarvabhūtāni sammohaṃ sarge yānti parantapa .. 27 ..
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The very desire and aversion which are opposed to each other like heat and cold, and which, arising in connection with pleasure and pain and their causes, occur to every being in its turn, are known as pairs (dvandva). Now, when desire, and aversion arise on the occurrence of pleasure and pain or of the causes thereof they cause delusion in all beings and create obstruction to the rise of a knowledge of the Supreme Reality, the Self, by subjugation to themselves the intelligence of those beings. To one whose mnid is subject to the passions of desire and aversion, there cannot indeed arise a knowledge of things as they are, even of the external world; and it needs no saying that to a man whose intellect is overpowered by passion there cannot arise a knowledge of the Innermost Self, inasmuch as there are many obstacles in its way. All creatures into existence are born subject to this delusion. Wherefore every being has its intelligence obscured by the delusion of pairs; and thus deluded it knows not that I am the Self, and therefore worships Me not as the Self.
Divine worship leads to realisation.
Who then are free from the delusion of pairs and know Thee and worship Thee as their Self according to the Teaching (Śāstra)?—In answer to this, the Lord says :