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Shloka 7

Adhyāya 51: Kṛṣṇa’s Leave-Taking and Departure for Dvārakā (द्वारकागमनानुमति)

अव्यक्तादि विशेषान्तं सहस्थावरजड्रमम्‌ । सूर्यचन्द्रप्रभालोकं ग्रहनक्षत्रमण्डितम्‌

avyaktādi-viśeṣāntaṁ saha-sthāvara-jaḍa-dramam | sūrya-candra-prabhā-lokaṁ graha-nakṣatra-maṇḍitam | idaṁ jagad ekaṁ brahma-vanaṁ | avyakta-prakṛtir asyādaḥ | pañca-mahābhūta-daśendriyāṇi caikaṁ mana iti ṣoḍaśa-viśeṣaiḥ asya vistāraḥ | idaṁ carācara-prāṇibhir pūrṇam | sūrya-candrādi-prakāśaiḥ prakāśitam | graha-nakṣatraiḥ suśobhitam | nadī-parvata-saṅghaiḥ sarvato vibhūṣitam | nānā-vidha-jalaiḥ sadālaṅkṛtam | etat sarva-bhūtānāṁ jīvanaṁ sarva-prāṇināṁ ca gatiḥ | asmin brahma-vane kṣetrajñaś carati |

ヴァーユは言った。「この宇宙はただ一つのブラフマンの森である。その始まりは未顕のプラクリティ(avyakta)であり、その展開は差別ある原理にまで及ぶ—五大、十の感官、そして一つの心、合わせて十六。そこには動くものと動かぬもの、あらゆる存在が満ちている。太陽と月の光に照らされ、惑星と星宿に飾られ、河川と山岳の群れによって四方が美しく、さまざまな水によって常に荘厳されている。これこそ万有の生命であり、すべての生きものの行路である。このブラフマンの森において、「田を知る者」(kṣetrajña)は遍歴する。」

अव्यक्तादिhaving the unmanifest as the beginning
अव्यक्तादि:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootअव्यक्त + आदि
FormNeuter, Accusative, Singular
विशेषान्तम्ending in the (sixteen) specifics/tattvas
विशेषान्तम्:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootविशेष + अन्त
FormNeuter, Accusative, Singular
सहtogether with
सह:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootसह
स्थावरwith the immobile (beings)
स्थावर:
Karana
TypeNoun
Rootस्थावर
FormNeuter, Instrumental, Singular
जङ्गमम्the mobile (beings)
जङ्गमम्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootजङ्गम
FormNeuter, Accusative, Singular
सूर्यचन्द्रप्रभालोकम्illumined by the light of the sun and moon
सूर्यचन्द्रप्रभालोकम्:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootसूर्य + चन्द्र + प्रभा + लोक
FormNeuter, Accusative, Singular
ग्रहby planets
ग्रह:
Karana
TypeNoun
Rootग्रह
FormMasculine, Instrumental, Plural
नक्षत्रby stars/asterisms
नक्षत्र:
Karana
TypeNoun
Rootनक्षत्र
FormNeuter, Instrumental, Plural
मण्डितम्adorned
मण्डितम्:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootमण्डित (from √मण्ड्/मण्ड् ‘to adorn’)
FormNeuter, Accusative, Singular
यत्which
यत्:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootयद्
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
जगत्the world
जगत्:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootजगत्
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
एकम्one/single
एकम्:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootएक
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
ब्रह्मवनम्the forest of Brahman (cosmic forest)
ब्रह्मवनम्:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootब्रह्म + वन
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
अस्तिis
अस्ति:
TypeVerb
Root√अस्
FormPresent, 3, Singular

वायुदेव उवाच

V
Vāyudeva (Wind-god)
B
Brahman
P
Prakṛti (the unmanifest)
S
Sūrya (Sun)
C
Candra (Moon)
G
Grahas (planets)
N
Nakṣatras (constellations/lunar mansions)
R
Rivers
M
Mountains
K
Kṣetrajña (Knower of the Field)

Educational Q&A

The verse presents the cosmos as a ‘forest of Brahman’: an all-encompassing field arising from unmanifest Prakṛti and structured through key principles (elements, senses, mind). Within this vast, ornamented universe, the kṣetrajña—the conscious self—moves as an experiencer/witness, pointing toward self-knowledge and discernment between consciousness and nature.

Vāyudeva is instructing the listener by describing the universe in a vivid, poetic cosmological image. He reframes the world’s diversity (sun, moon, stars, rivers, mountains, beings) as a single coherent domain, preparing a philosophical reflection on the self (kṣetrajña) that traverses and experiences this ‘field’.