Commentary The worldly man is ignorant. The worldly man is ignorant of the path that leads him to bliss of the self. The sage turns a blind eye on worldly pleasures which do not attract him. For him they are like an object lying in a dark chamber. Tamas or darkness or ignorance is exceedingly difficult to remove.
Illusion dies hard.
This pain is extremely difficult to cure. The worldly man has no idea at all of the inner world of the qualities of nature, the senses, the mind, the buddhi , etc. He is completely at the mercy of nature, which, in his case, is base nature, the large residue of past incarnations. The sage is aware of this inner world and is also aware that the outer world is part of the body of God. This vision is not imagination nor is it psychedelic experience.