Shloka 10

जनक–सुलभा संवादः

Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment

Devanagari script

बुध्यते च परां बुद्धि विशुद्धाममलां यदा

Transliteration

budhyate ca parāṁ buddhiṁ viśuddhām amalāṁ yadā

Translation

يقول فاسيشثا: إذا استيقظ عقل المرء الأعلى—نقيًّا خالصًا لا دنس فيه، ثابتًا على براهْمَن وحده—فإنه يُدرك إدراكًا مباشرًا براهْمَن الأعلى (الموصوف بالمبدأ السادس والعشرين) ويصير على طبيعته. وحين يستقرّ في حال براهْمَن الدائمة الطهارة والدائمة الوعي، يتجاوز كليًّا البراكريتي غير المتجلّية التي شأنها الخلق والفناء.

Word by Word

• बुध्यते: is understood/awakens (to knowledge)
• बुध्यते: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: बुध्
• Form: लट् (वर्तमान), आत्मनेपद, प्रथम, एकवचन

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• पराम्: supreme, higher
• पराम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: परा
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• बुद्धिम्: intellect, understanding
• बुद्धिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: बुद्धि
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• विशुद्धाम्: completely pure
• विशुद्धाम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विशुद्ध
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• अमलाम्: stainless, spotless
• अमलाम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अमल
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• यदा: when
• यदा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यदा

Speaker

वसिष्ठ उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vasiṣṭha
• Brahman (Parabrahman)
• Jīvātman
• Avyakta Prakṛti

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

When the intellect becomes perfectly purified and fixed on Brahman, direct realization arises; one becomes established in Brahman-consciousness and thereby transcends unmanifest Prakṛti and its cycle of creation and dissolution.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vasiṣṭha is instructing a king (nṛpaśreṣṭha) in liberation-teaching: he describes the inner transformation of buddhi culminating in Brahman-realization and freedom from the cosmic processes governed by Prakṛti.