Shloka 3
जनक–सुलभा संवादः
Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment
अजसं त्विह क्रीडार्थ विकरोति जनाधिप । अव्यक्तबोधनाच्चैव बुध्यमानं वदन्त्यपि
ajasaṃ tv iha krīḍārthaṃ vikaroti janādhipa | avyaktabodhanāc caiva budhyamānaṃ vadanty api ||
قال فاسيشثا: «يا سيد الناس، إن الجيفا هنا، بدافعها الطبيعي، تقبل التبدّل لأجل اللعب الإلهي (ليلا). ولأن لها إدراكًا لغير المتجلّي (أفيَكْتا—بركريتي)، فإن الحكماء يصفونها أيضًا بأنها “بودهيامانا”؛ أي التي هي في طور المعرفة والاستيقاظ.»
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames embodied change (vikāra) as a natural, almost playful movement of the jīva within worldly existence, while emphasizing that the jīva is distinguished by cognition—its capacity to apprehend the Unmanifest (avyakta/prakṛti). Hence sages call it ‘budhyamāna’, the self that is actively awakening/knowing.
Vasiṣṭha is instructing a ruler, explaining the nature of the living self in relation to prakṛti: why the jīva appears to transform in the world and how its defining mark is awareness, especially of the subtle, unmanifest ground of experience.