Shloka 7
अव्यक्त-गुण-पुरुषविवेकः | Avyakta, Guṇas, and Discrimination of Puruṣa
यानि चान्यानि द्वन्द्वानि प्राकृतानि शरीरिषु । उत्पद्यन्ते विचित्राणि तान्येषो5प्यभिमन्यते,इनके सिवा और भी जितने प्रकारके प्रकृतिजन्य विचित्र रोग या द्वन्द्द देहधारियोंमें उत्पन्न होते हैं, उन सबसे यह अपनेको आक्रान्त मानता है
yāni cānyāni dvandvāni prākṛtāni śarīriṣu | utpadyante vicitrāṇi tāny eṣo 'py abhimanyate ||
Vasiṣṭha berkata: “Dan apa jua lagi pasangan pertentangan lain yang pelbagai—yang bersifat semula jadi dan timbul dalam diri makhluk berjasad—orang ini juga, kerana sangkaan dan keakuannya, menganggap dirinya ditimpa oleh semuanya.”
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how identification with the body and mind leads one to appropriate every natural duality and disturbance as “mine,” thereby multiplying suffering; wisdom lies in recognizing such dvandvas as impersonal products of prakṛti rather than the true Self.
Vasiṣṭha is instructing about the condition of embodied beings: various natural and manifold dualities arise in the body, and the deluded person takes himself to be overpowered by them, revealing the mechanism of bondage through misidentification.