Shloka 203
जनक–सुलभा संवादः
Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment
चतुर्विशमसारं च षड्विंशस्य प्रबोधनात् । छब्बीसवाँ तत्त्व परमात्मा अजन्मा, सर्वव्यापी और संगदोषसे रहित है। उसकी शरण लेकर जब जीवात्मा उसके स्वरूपका साक्षात्कार कर लेता है, तब परमात्म-ज्ञानके प्रभावसे स्वयं भी सर्वव्यापी हो जाता है तथा चौबीस तत्त्वोंसे युक्त प्रकृतिको असार समझकर त्याग देता है
caturviśam asāraṃ ca ṣaḍviṃśasya prabodhanāt |
Vasiṣṭha teaches that, through awakening to the twenty-sixth principle—the Supreme Self, unborn, all-pervading, and untouched by the taint of association—the individual self, taking refuge in That and directly realizing Its nature, becomes (as it were) all-pervading by the power of supreme knowledge. Seeing the twenty-four principles that constitute Prakṛti as insubstantial, it renounces attachment to them.
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
Realization of the twenty-sixth principle (Paramātman)—unborn, all-pervading, and free from the taint of association—dissolves the sense of limitation in the individual self. With the rise of supreme knowledge, one ceases to treat the twenty-four evolutes of Prakṛti as ultimately real or worthy of attachment, and thus turns toward liberation through dispassion and insight.
Vasiṣṭha is instructing on metaphysical discernment: distinguishing Prakṛti’s twenty-four principles from the transcendent Supreme Self. The passage frames liberation as taking refuge in the Supreme, attaining direct realization, and thereby abandoning identification with the insubstantial constituents of nature.