Shloka 3
Bondage and Liberation Under Māyā; Two Birds Analogy; Marks of the Saintly Devotee
विद्याविद्ये मम तनू विद्ध्युद्धव शरीरिणाम् । मोक्षबन्धकरी आद्ये मायया मे विनिर्मिते ॥ ३ ॥
vidyāvidye mama tanū viddhy uddhava śarīriṇām mokṣa-bandha-karī ādye māyayā me vinirmite
အို ဥဒ္ဓဝ၊ ဗိဒ္ဓာ (အသိပညာ) နှင့် အဗိဒ္ဓာ (မသိမှု) နှစ်ခုလုံးသည် ငါ၏ “တနု” ဖြစ်၍ ငါ၏ စွမ်းအား၏ ဖြန့်ကျက်မှုများဖြစ်ကြောင်း သိလော့။ ငါ၏ မာယာက ဖန်တီးထားသော ဤနှစ်ခုသည် အစမရှိ (အနာဒီ) ဖြစ်ပြီး ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာရှိသူများအတွက် တစ်ဖက်က မောက္ခကို၊ တစ်ဖက်က ချုပ်နှောင်မှုကို ပေးသည်။
By the expansion of vidyā, or knowledge, a conditioned soul is liberated from the clutches of māyā, and similarly, by the expansion of avidyā, or ignorance, the conditioned soul is driven further into illusion and bondage. Both knowledge and ignorance are products of the mighty potency of the Personality of Godhead. The living being is bound by illusion when he considers himself the proprietor of the subtle and gross material bodies. According to Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī the living entity may be designated as jīva-māyā, whereas matter is called guṇa-māyā. The living entity places his living potency ( jīva-māyā ) in the grip of the mundane qualitative potency ( guṇa-māyā ) and falsely dreams that he is part and parcel of the material world. Such an artificial mixture is called illusion or ignorance. When all of the Lord’s potencies are correctly perceived in their proper categories, the living entity is liberated from material bondage and returns to his blissful eternal residence in the spiritual sky.
FAQs
This verse states that knowledge (vidyā) and ignorance (avidyā) are the Lord’s two manifestations for embodied beings, created through His māyā, and they respectively lead to liberation and bondage.
Krishna is instructing Uddhava on the inner mechanism of bondage and freedom—how delusion binds the soul and how true spiritual knowledge releases one—so Uddhava can firmly follow the path leading to liberation.
Cultivate vidyā by studying sacred teachings, practicing self-control, and seeking saintly guidance; reduce avidyā by avoiding भ्रम (misidentification with the body) and choices driven by illusion—this shifts life from bondage to freedom.