Shloka 11
अव्यक्त-गुण-पुरुषविवेकः | Avyakta, Guṇas, and Discrimination of Puruṣa
भस्मप्रस्तरशायी च भूमिशय्या तलेषु च । वीरस्थानाम्बुपड़के च शयनं फलकेषु च
bhasmaprastaraśāyī ca bhūmiśayyā taleṣu ca | vīrasthānāmbupaḍake ca śayanaṃ phalakeṣu ca ||
ヴァシシュタは言った。「彼は灰と石を敷いた床に横たわり、ある時は裸の地と硬い地面に眠る。時に勇者の坐法にて憩い、時に水と泥の中に身を横たえ、時に木板や仮の寝台の上に眠る。」
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights detachment (vairāgya) through endurance of extremes: the disciplined person accepts any resting place—ashes, stone, earth, mud, or a plank—without craving comfort, indicating mastery over bodily preference and steadiness in dharma.
Vasiṣṭha is describing the varied, often harsh conditions in which an austere practitioner lives and sleeps. The catalogue of places and postures functions as a moral portrait of renunciant discipline rather than a literal travelogue.