Shloka 37
अब्यक्तं क्षेत्रमुद्दिष्टं गुणानां प्रभवाप्ययम् । सदा पश्याम्यहं लीनो विजानामि शृणोमि च,गुणोंकी उत्पत्ति और लयके कारणभूत अव्यक्त प्रकृतिको क्षेत्र कहते हैं। मैं उसमें संलग्न होकर सदा उसे जानता और सुनता हूँ
avyaktaṁ kṣetram uddiṣṭaṁ guṇānāṁ prabhavāpyayam | sadā paśyāmy ahaṁ līno vijānāmi śṛṇomi ca ||
Vāyu said: “The unmanifest (Prakṛti) is declared to be the ‘field’ (kṣetra), for it is the source and the dissolution of the guṇas. Abiding merged within it, I ever perceive it; I understand it, and I also hear (its truth).”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse identifies the ‘unmanifest’ (avyakta/Prakṛti) as the kṣetra—the foundational field in which the guṇas arise and into which they dissolve—highlighting a Sāṅkhya-style distinction between the field of nature and the knowing principle that can discern it.
Vāyudeva is speaking and offering a doctrinal clarification: he explains what is meant by ‘kṣetra’ and asserts his continual, inwardly absorbed awareness of the unmanifest basis from which the guṇas emerge and subside.