Shloka 1
जनक–सुलभा संवादः
Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment
अप्-#-रू- अष्टाधिकांत्रेशततमो< ध्याय: क्षर-अक्षर और परमात्म-तत्त्वका वर्णन
vasiṣṭha uvāca | atha buddham athābuddham imaṃ guṇavidhiṃ śṛṇu | ātmānaṃ bahudhā kṛtvā tāny eva pravicakṣate ||
قال فاسيشثا: «والآن اسمع، أيها الملك، بيانَ المستيقظ (الذات العليا)، وغير المستيقظ (الذات الفردية)، وهذا نظامُ التجلّي المؤلَّف من الغونات (guṇa). إن الذاتَ الفردية، وقد صاغت نفسها في صورٍ كثيرة، لا تزال ترى تلك الصورَ عينَها حقيقةً.»
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
Vasiṣṭha distinguishes the fully awakened principle (buddha, aligned with the Supreme Self) from the unawakened individual self (abuddha) and explains how the guṇa-constituted world-process leads the jīva to project itself into many forms and then mistake those projections as reality—setting up the need for discernment and liberation-oriented knowledge.
Vasiṣṭha addresses a king and begins a concluding instruction: he announces that he will describe the Supreme, the individual soul, and the guṇa-made cosmos, framing the jīva’s experience as a misrecognition of its own manifold self-projections.