Shloka 37
Brahmopadeśa: Adhipatitva-kathana, Dharma-lakṣaṇa, and Kṣetra–Kṣetrajña Viveka
Book 14, Chapter 43
अब्यक्तं क्षेत्रमुद्दिष्टं गुणानां प्रभवाप्ययम् । सदा पश्याम्यहं लीनो विजानामि शृणोमि च,गुणोंकी उत्पत्ति और लयके कारणभूत अव्यक्त प्रकृतिको क्षेत्र कहते हैं। मैं उसमें संलग्न होकर सदा उसे जानता और सुनता हूँ
avyaktaṁ kṣetram uddiṣṭaṁ guṇānāṁ prabhavāpyayam | sadā paśyāmy ahaṁ līno vijānāmi śṛṇomi ca ||
ವಾಯು ಹೇಳಿದರು— ಅವ್ಯಕ್ತ (ಪ್ರಕೃತಿ)ಯನ್ನೇ ‘ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರ’ವೆಂದು ಹೇಳಲಾಗಿದೆ; ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಗುಣಗಳ ಉದ್ಭವಕ್ಕೂ ಲಯಕ್ಕೂ ಕಾರಣ ಅದು. ನಾನು ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಲೀನನಾಗಿ ಸದಾ ಅದನ್ನು ಕಾಣುತ್ತೇನೆ; ಅದನ್ನು ತಿಳಿಯುತ್ತೇನೆ ಮತ್ತು (ಅದರ ಸತ್ಯವನ್ನು) ಕೇಳುತ್ತೇನೆ ಕೂಡ.
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse identifies the ‘unmanifest’ (avyakta/Prakṛti) as the kṣetra—the foundational field in which the guṇas arise and into which they dissolve—highlighting a Sāṅkhya-style distinction between the field of nature and the knowing principle that can discern it.
Vāyudeva is speaking and offering a doctrinal clarification: he explains what is meant by ‘kṣetra’ and asserts his continual, inwardly absorbed awareness of the unmanifest basis from which the guṇas emerge and subside.