Bhagavatapurana 7.2.48

7.2.48

vitathābhiniveśo 'yaṃ yadguṇeṣvarthadṛgvacaḥ /
yathā manorathaḥ svapnaḥ sarvamaindriyakaṃ mṛṣā //

48. It is a false (an ill-founded) attachment (notion) to think the gunas or their effect, viz., pleasure, pain and the like, as well as all talk about them, to be real. Just as dream is mere fancy, so everything in the range of the senses is unsubstantial.