Shloka 5
जनक–सुलभा संवादः
Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment
बुध्यते यदि वाव्यक्तमेतद् वै पजचविंशकम् । बुध्यमानो भवत्येव सज्भात्मक इति श्रुति: । अनेनाप्रतिबुद्धेति वदन्त्यव्यक्तमच्युतम्,यदि यह मान लिया जाय कि प्रकृति भी जानती है तो यह केवल पचीसवें तत्त्व-- पुरुषको ही उससे संयुक्त होकर जान पाती है, प्रकृतिके साथ संयुक्त होनेके कारण ही जीव संगात्मक (संगी) होता है; ऐसा श्रुतिका कथन है। इस संगदोषके कारण ही अव्यक्त एवं अविकारी जीवात्माको लोग '"मूढ़” कह दिया करते हैं
budhyate yadi vāvyaktam etad vai pañcaviṁśakam | budhyamāno bhavaty eva saṅghātmaka iti śrutiḥ | anenāpratibuddheti vadanty avyaktam acyutam |
Vasiṣṭha said: If one were to suppose that Prakṛti (the Unmanifest) ‘knows’, then that knowing is possible only through the twenty-fifth principle—the Puruṣa—when conjoined with it. Because of association with Prakṛti, the individual self becomes ‘bound up with aggregates’ (saṅghātmaka), so declares the Śruti. And owing to this very fault of association, people describe the unmanifest, unchanging Self as ‘unawakened’ or ‘deluded’, though it is in truth immutable.
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