Shloka 42
अव्यक्त–पुरुष–विवेकः (Discrimination of Avyakta/Prakṛti and Puruṣa) — Yājñavalkya’s Anvīkṣikī to Viśvāvasu
अव्यक्तको क्षेत्र कहा गया है। उसीको सत्त्व (बुद्धि) और शासककी भी संज्ञा दी गयी है; परंतु पचीसवाँ तत्त्व परमपुरुष परमात्मा जड तत्त्व और ईश्वरसे रहित भिन्न है ।। सांख्यदर्शनमेतावत् परिसंख्यानुदर्शनम् । सांख्या: प्रकुर्वते चैव प्रकृतिं च प्रचक्षते
avyaktakaḥ kṣetraḥ kathitaḥ; sa eva sattva-buddhi-śāsaka-saṃjñitaḥ. pañcaviṃśas tu tattvaḥ paramapuruṣaḥ paramātmā jaḍa-tattvāt īśvararahitāt pṛthag bhinnaḥ. sāṅkhyadarśanam etāvat pari-saṅkhyānudārśanam; sāṅkhyāḥ prakurvante caiva prakṛtiṃ ca pracakṣate.
Vasiṣṭha said: “The unmanifest (avyakta) is declared to be the ‘field’ (kṣetra). That same principle is also spoken of as sattva—namely the discerning intellect (buddhi)—and as the inner governor. Yet the twenty-fifth principle, the Supreme Person (Paramapuruṣa), the Supreme Self (Paramātman), stands distinct: different from inert matter and not to be reduced to a Godless material principle. This much is the Sāṅkhya vision—an analysis by enumeration: the Sāṅkhyas set forth the categories and identify the fundamental source as Prakṛti.”
वसिष्ठ उवाच