Shloka 39
Adhyaya 4 — Jaimini Meets the Dharmapakshis: Four Doubts on the Mahabharata and the Opening of Narayana Doctrine
आविर्भावतिरोभावदृष्टादृष्टविलक्षणम् ।
वदन्ति यत् सृष्टमिदं तथैवान्ते च संहृतम् ॥
āvirbhāva-tirobhāva-dṛṣṭādṛṣṭa-vilakṣaṇam / vadanti yad sṛṣṭam idaṃ tathaivānte ca saṃhṛtam
They describe this created world as marked by appearance and disappearance, and as distinguished into the seen and the unseen; and in the same way, at the end, it is withdrawn (dissolved).
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FAQs
The verse emphasizes the cyclical nature of existence: what appears will also disappear. Ethically, it supports vairāgya (dispassion) and steadiness—since worldly states alternate between manifest and hidden, one should not cling to transient forms.
Primarily Sarga (creation) and Pratisarga/Saṃhāra (re-creation/dissolution): the world is said to be produced with the marks of manifestation and concealment, and later reabsorbed at the end of the cycle.
‘Seen/unseen’ and ‘appearance/disappearance’ can be read as the play of māyā or śakti in which phenomena arise into cognition and subside back into latency. The teaching points to an underlying substratum that is not exhausted by what is merely ‘seen’—encouraging contemplation of the unmanifest ground behind changing appearances.