Shloka 31

जनक–सुलभा संवादः

Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment

Devanagari script

एतावदेतत्‌ कथितं मया ते तथ्यं महाराज यथार्थतत्त्वम्‌ । अमत्सरत्वं परिगृहा[ चार्थ सनातन ब्रह्म विशुद्धमाद्यम्‌

Transliteration

etāvad etat kathitaṃ mayā te tathyaṃ mahārāja yathārtha-tattvam | amatsaratvaṃ parigṛhya cārthaṃ sanātanaṃ brahma viśuddham ādyam ||

Translation

वसिष्ठ म्हणाले—महाराज! इतकेच मी तुला सांगितले—सत्य आणि यथार्थ तत्त्वानुसार. मत्सर-द्वेष बाजूला ठेवून, तुझा हेतू समजून, प्रेमभावाने मी तुला त्या शुद्ध, सनातन, सर्वांचा आदिभूत ब्रह्माचे यथावत वर्णन केले आहे.

Word by Word

• {'etāvat': 'this much

• to this extent', 'etat': 'this (teaching/matter)', 'kathitam': 'told

• explained', 'mayā': 'by me', 'te': 'to you', 'tathyam': 'true

• truthful', 'mahārāja': 'O great king', 'yathārtha': 'as it really is

• according to reality', 'tattvam': 'principle

• essence', 'amatsaratvam': 'freedom from envy/jealousy

• non-malice', 'parigṛhya': 'having accepted

• having taken up', 'ca': 'and', 'artham': 'purpose

• intent', 'sanātanam': 'eternal

• perennial', 'brahma': 'Brahman

• the absolute reality', 'viśuddham': 'pure

• untainted', 'ādyam': 'primordial

Speaker

वसिष्ठ उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vasiṣṭha
• Mahārāja (the king addressed)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse emphasizes truthful instruction about Brahman (ultimate reality) delivered in a spirit of goodwill, grounded in amatsaratva—freedom from envy and malice—suggesting that ethical purity of attitude is integral to receiving and conveying highest knowledge.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vasiṣṭha concludes a section of instruction addressed to a king, stating that he has explained the ‘yathārtha-tattva’—the real essence—of the pure, eternal, primordial Brahman, having first adopted a non-envious disposition and understood the king’s purpose in asking.