Shloka 31
अव्यक्त-गुण-पुरुषविवेकः | Avyakta, Guṇas, and Discrimination of Puruṣa
प्रकृति: कुरुते देवी भव॑ प्रलयमेव च । दिवसान्ते गुणानेतानभ्येत्यैको&वतिष्ठते
prakṛtiḥ kurute devī bhavaṃ pralayam eva ca | divasānte guṇān etān abhyetya eko ’vatiṣṭhate ||
ヴァシシュタは言った。「プラクリティ—自然の神的な力—は、顕現（生成）と消滅（溶解）の双方をもたらす。だが周期の終わり、これらのグナ（guṇa）が回収され尽くしたのち、ただ『一者』のみが確立して残る。」
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
Nature (prakṛti), constituted by the guṇas, is responsible for the cycles of manifestation and dissolution; when the guṇas subside at the end of the cycle, the ultimate One alone abides—pointing to a reality beyond changing qualities.
Vasiṣṭha is instructing on cosmological and philosophical principles: the world-process arises and ends through prakṛti’s guṇas, but the final ground of being is the One that remains when all qualities and transformations are withdrawn.