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Shloka 2

जनक–सुलभा संवादः

Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment

एतदेवं विकुर्वाणो बुध्यमानो न बुध्यते । गुणान्‌ धारयते होष सृजत्याक्षिपते तदा

etad evaṁ vikurvāṇo budhyamāno na budhyate | guṇān dhārayate hoṣa sṛjaty ākṣipate tadā ||

वसिष्ठ बोले—प्रकृति के संसर्ग से इस प्रकार विकारों को प्राप्त होता हुआ देहधारी जीव, समझने में समर्थ होकर भी ब्रह्म को यथार्थ नहीं जान पाता। वह गुणों को धारण करता है; और फिर कर्तृत्व के अभिमान से ग्रस्त होकर सृष्टि और संहार में प्रवृत्त होता है।

एतत्this (state/thing)
एतत्:
Karma
TypePronoun
Rootएतद्
FormNeuter, Accusative, Singular
एवम्thus
एवम्:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएवम्
विकुर्वाणःtransforming/altering (acting with modification)
विकुर्वाणः:
Karta
TypeVerb
Rootवि + कृ (कृञ् करणे)
Formशतृ (present active participle), Masculine, Nominative, Singular
बुध्यमानःbeing aware/trying to understand
बुध्यमानः:
Karta
TypeVerb
Rootबुध् (बोधने)
Formशानच् (present middle participle), Masculine, Nominative, Singular
not
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
बुध्यतेunderstands/awakens (to it)
बुध्यते:
TypeVerb
Rootबुध् (बोधने)
FormPresent (Lat), Ātmanepada, 3rd, Singular
गुणान्the qualities (guṇas)
गुणान्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootगुण
FormMasculine, Accusative, Plural
धारयतेbears/holds
धारयते:
TypeVerb
Rootधृ (धारणे)
FormPresent (Lat), Ātmanepada, 3rd, Singular
होindeed (emphatic particle)
हो:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootहो
सःhe/that one
सः:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
सृजतिcreates/emits
सृजति:
TypeVerb
Rootसृज् (सर्गे)
FormPresent (Lat), Parasmaipada, 3rd, Singular
आक्षिपतेwithdraws/draws back/throws away
आक्षिपते:
TypeVerb
Rootआ + क्षिप् (क्षेपणे)
FormPresent (Lat), Ātmanepada, 3rd, Singular
तदाthen/at that time
तदा:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootतदा

वसिष्ठ उवाच

वसिष्ठ (Vasiṣṭha)
जीवात्मा (jīvātman)
ब्रह्म (Brahman)
गुण (guṇas)

Educational Q&A

Contact with Prakṛti and identification with the guṇas produces the false sense of agency. Even an intellectually awakened person may fail to realize Brahman if they cling to doership; liberation requires seeing the Self as distinct from guṇa-driven activity.

Vasiṣṭha is instructing the listener in a mokṣa-oriented discourse: he explains how the jīvātman, entangled with Nature’s qualities, mistakes guṇa-activity for the Self and therefore speaks and acts as a creator and destroyer instead of knowing Brahman.