Shloka 3
जनक–सुलभा संवादः
Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment
अजसं त्विह क्रीडार्थ विकरोति जनाधिप । अव्यक्तबोधनाच्चैव बुध्यमानं वदन्त्यपि
ajasaṃ tv iha krīḍārthaṃ vikaroti janādhipa | avyaktabodhanāc caiva budhyamānaṃ vadanty api ||
वसिष्ठ म्हणाले—हे जनाधिप! हा जीव येथे क्रीडा (लीला) यासाठी स्वभावतःच विकार पावतो. आणि अव्यक्त प्रकृतीचे बोधन असल्यामुळे ऋषी-मुनी त्याला ‘बुध्यमान’—जाणिवेकडे जागृत होणारा—असेही म्हणतात.
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames embodied change (vikāra) as a natural, almost playful movement of the jīva within worldly existence, while emphasizing that the jīva is distinguished by cognition—its capacity to apprehend the Unmanifest (avyakta/prakṛti). Hence sages call it ‘budhyamāna’, the self that is actively awakening/knowing.
Vasiṣṭha is instructing a ruler, explaining the nature of the living self in relation to prakṛti: why the jīva appears to transform in the world and how its defining mark is awareness, especially of the subtle, unmanifest ground of experience.