Shloka 1
अव्यक्त-गुण-पुरुषविवेकः | Avyakta, Guṇas, and Discrimination of Puruṣa
है ० बक। ] अति्ऑशाएड< ग्रयाधिकत्रिशततमो< ध्याय: प्रकृति-संसर्गके कारण जीवका अपनेको नाना प्रकारके कर्मोका कर्ता और भोक्ता मानना एवं नाना योनियोंमें बारंबार जन्म ग्रहण करना वसिष्ठ उवाच एवमप्रतिबुद्धत्वादबुद्धमनुवर्तते । देहाद् देहसलहस्राणि तथा समभिपद्यते
Vasiṣṭha uvāca: evam apratibuddhatvād abuddham anuvartate | dehād deha-sahasrāṇi tathā samabhipadyate ||
Vasiṣṭha said: “O King, in this way, because the self remains unawakened, it follows only ignorance. Therefore it passes on from one body to thousands of bodies again and again.”
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
Ignorance (lack of awakening) makes the self identify with agency and experience, which sustains saṃsāra—repeated embodiment across many births; awakening/knowledge is implied as the remedy.
Vasiṣṭha instructs the King in a reflective, liberation-oriented discourse, explaining why the jīva continues to migrate from body to body: it keeps following ignorance because it has not yet awakened.