Shloka 27
अव्यक्त–पुरुष–विवेकः (Discrimination of Avyakta/Prakṛti and Puruṣa) — Yājñavalkya’s Anvīkṣikī to Viśvāvasu
अव्यक्तमाहु: प्रकृतिं परां प्रकृतिवादिन: । तस्मान्महत् समुत्पन्नं द्वितीयं राजसत्तम,नृपश्रेष्ठ! प्रकृतिवादी विद्वान् मूल प्रकृतिको अव्यक्त कहते हैं। उससे दूसरा तत्त्व प्रकट हुआ, जिसे महत्तत्त्व कहते हैं
avyaktam āhuḥ prakṛtiṁ parāṁ prakṛtivādinaḥ | tasmān mahat samutpannaṁ dvitīyaṁ rājasattama, nṛpaśreṣṭha |
Vasiṣṭha dijo: «Los expositores de Prakṛti declaran que la Prakṛti suprema es lo Inmanifestado (Avyakta). De ese Inmanifestado surge el segundo principio, lo Grande (Mahat). Oh, el mejor de los reyes, así describen los conocedores de Prakṛti el origen del primer evoluto.»
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents a Prakṛti-based cosmology: the highest Prakṛti is called the Unmanifest (avyakta), and from it emerges the next principle, Mahat (the Great), which functions as the first manifest evolute and a foundation for further creation.
In Śānti Parva’s philosophical instruction, Vasiṣṭha addresses a king and explains a doctrinal account of creation used by Prakṛti-theorists, identifying the Unmanifest as the source and Mahat as the subsequent principle that arises from it.