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 ||
ວາສິດຖະ ກ່າວວ່າ: «ປຣະກຣິຕິ—ພະລັງອຳນາດອັນເປັນເທວະຂອງທໍາມະຊາດ—ເຮັດໃຫ້ເກີດທັງການປາກົດ (ການເປັນ) ແລະການລະລາຍ (ປຣະລະຍະ). ແຕ່ເມື່ອຮອດທ້າຍວົງຈອນ ຫຼັງຈາກຄຸນະ (guṇa) ເຫຼົ່ານີ້ຖືກດູດກັບຄືນ ອົງດຽວເທົ່ານັ້ນຍັງຄົງຕັ້ງຢູ່».
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prakṛti’s guṇas, but the final ground of being is the One that remains when all qualities and transformations are withdrawn.