Shloka 4
Adhyāya 39 — त्रिगुणविवेकः (Discrimination of the Three Guṇas) and Avyakta-Doctrine
संहत्य कुर्वते यात्रां सहिता: संघचारिण: । संघातवृत्तयो होते वर्तन्ते हेत्वहेतुभि:,ये गुण किसी निमित्तसे अथवा बिना निमित्तके भी सदा साथ रहते हैं, साथ-ही-साथ विचरते हैं, समूह बनाकर यात्रा करते हैं और संघात (शरीर)-में मौजूद रहते हैं
saṃhatya kurvate yātrāṃ sahitāḥ saṅghacāriṇaḥ | saṅghātavṛttayo hote vartante hetvahetubhiḥ ||
Vāyu said: “Moving in close union, they undertake their journey together—companions who live and move as a group. Their very mode of existence is bound up with the aggregate (the embodied complex), and they continue to function—sometimes with an evident cause, and sometimes even without any apparent cause.”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how beings (or faculties/qualities) operate in collective dependence within the embodied aggregate, and that their activity may appear driven by clear causes or may arise without any obvious motive—inviting reflection on interdependence, embodiment, and the limits of human causal explanation.
Vāyu speaks in a reflective, explanatory mode, describing how entities associated with embodied life move together as a group and function within the bodily aggregate, emphasizing their collective operation and the sometimes evident, sometimes obscure causation behind their activity.