Considering guilty what is not, and not seeing fault in what is guilty; embracing wrong views, beings go to misfortune.

Avajje vajjamatino — in what is not a fault (avajje), they perceive fault (vajjamatino). This is the third verse in the series on perceptual inversion: now the focus is moral judgment. Condemning the innocent and absolving the harmful.

Vajje cāvajjadassino — and in what is a fault (vajje), seeing what is not (avajjadassino). The double inversion is precise: not only wrong in one direction, but in both.

The repetition of the refrain (micchādiṭṭhisamādānā) underscores that the root is always the same: adopting wrong views. In yoga, sammādiṭṭhi (right view) is not just another opinion, but the condition without which no practice can bear fruit.