Shloka 32
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
प्रधानं कारणं यत्तदव्यक्ताख्यं महर्षयः ।
यदाहुः प्रकृतिं सूक्ष्मां नित्यां सदसदात्मिकाम् ॥
pradhānaṃ kāraṇaṃ yat tad avyakta-ākhyaṃ maharṣayaḥ |
yad āhuḥ prakṛtiṃ sūkṣmāṃ nityāṃ sad-asad-ātmikām ||
‘പ്രധാന’മെന്നു വിളിക്കപ്പെടുന്ന കാരണതത്ത്വം ‘അവ്യക്ത’മെന്ന പേരിലും അറിയപ്പെടുന്നു; മഹർഷികൾ അതിനെ ‘പ്രകൃതി’ എന്നു വർണ്ണിക്കുന്നു—അത് സൂക്ഷ്മം, നിത്യം, സത്-അസത് സ്വഭാവമുള്ളത്.
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FAQs
The world’s diversity is traced to a subtle causal matrix (Prakṛti), encouraging the seeker to look beyond surface phenomena to underlying causes—supporting patience, non-reactivity, and deeper inquiry.
Sarga/Pratisarga: explicit statement of the primordial cause (prakṛti/avyakta) from which subsequent evolutes proceed.
‘Sad-asad-ātmikā’ implies Prakṛti straddles manifest and unmanifest: it is the threshold where potential becomes appearance, mirroring how latent impressions (saṃskāras) become thoughts and experiences.