Shloka 33
अव्यक्त–पुरुष–विवेकः (Discrimination of Avyakta/Prakṛti and Puruṣa) — Yājñavalkya’s Anvīkṣikī to Viśvāvasu
सर्गप्रलय एतावानू प्रकृतेर्नुपसत्तम । एकत्वं प्रलये चास्य बहुत्वं च यदासृजत्
sarga-pralaya etāvān u prakṛter nṛpasattama | ekatvaṁ pralaye cāsya bahutvaṁ ca yadāsṛjat ||
वसिष्ठ म्हणाले—नृपश्रेष्ठा! प्रकृतीच्या सर्ग-प्रलयाचे इतकेच वर्णन आहे. प्रलयकाळी ती एकरूप असते आणि सृष्टी करताना अनेक रूपांनी विभक्त होते. राजेंद्र! ज्ञाननिपुणांनी प्रकृतीचे एकत्व व नानात्व असेच जाणावे.
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
Nature (prakṛti) is undivided in dissolution (pralaya) but appears as diverse in creation (sarga). The wise should understand this unity-and-diversity framework, and see that the unmanifest prakṛti generates multiplicity while the presiding Self/Person (puruṣa) remains fundamentally one.
Vasiṣṭha is instructing a king in philosophical cosmology: how the world-process alternates between dissolution and creation, and how prakṛti’s unmanifest state becomes manifold, relating this to the oneness of the puruṣa behind experience.