Previous Verse
Next Verse

Shloka 203

जनक–सुलभा संवादः

Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment

चतुर्विशमसारं च षड्विंशस्य प्रबोधनात्‌ । छब्बीसवाँ तत्त्व परमात्मा अजन्मा

caturviśam asāraṃ ca ṣaḍviṃśasya prabodhanāt |

يُعلِّم فاسيشثا أنّه بالاستيقاظ على المبدأ السادس والعشرين—وهو «الذات العليا» (باراماتمان)، غير المولودة، السارية في كل شيء، والمنزّهة عن دنس المخالطة—فإنّ الذات الفردية، إذ تلجأ إلى ذلك وتُعاين حقيقته معاينةً مباشرة، تغدو (كأنّها) شاملةً لكل مكان بقوة المعرفة العليا. وإذ ترى المبادئ الأربعة والعشرين التي تتألّف منها البراكْرِتي عديمةَ الجوهر، تنبذ التعلّق بها.

चतुर्विंशम्the twenty-four (principle)
चतुर्विंशम्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootचतुर्विंश (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक)
FormNeuter, Accusative, Singular
असारम्insubstantial, not the essence
असारम्:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootअसार (प्रातिपदिक)
FormNeuter, Accusative, Singular
and
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
षड्विंशस्यof the twenty-sixth (principle)
षड्विंशस्य:
Sambandha
TypeNoun
Rootषड्विंश (संख्या-प्रातिपदिक)
FormMasculine, Genitive, Singular
प्रबोधनात्from (the act of) awakening/realization
प्रबोधनात्:
Apadana
TypeNoun
Rootप्रबोधन (प्रातिपदिक)
FormNeuter, Ablative, Singular

वसिष्ठ उवाच

V
Vasiṣṭha
P
Paramātman
J
Jīvātman
P
Prakṛti
T
twenty-four tattvas
T
twenty-sixth tattva

Educational Q&A

Realization of the twenty-sixth principle (Paramātman)—unborn, all-pervading, and free from the taint of association—dissolves the sense of limitation in the individual self. With the rise of supreme knowledge, one ceases to treat the twenty-four evolutes of Prakṛti as ultimately real or worthy of attachment, and thus turns toward liberation through dispassion and insight.

Vasiṣṭha is instructing on metaphysical discernment: distinguishing Prakṛti’s twenty-four principles from the transcendent Supreme Self. The passage frames liberation as taking refuge in the Supreme, attaining direct realization, and thereby abandoning identification with the insubstantial constituents of nature.