Shloka 24

जनक–सुलभा संवादः

Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment

Devanagari script

एवमेवावगन्तव्यं नानात्वैकत्वमेतयो: । एतद्धि मोक्ष इत्युक्तमव्यक्तज्ञानसंहितम्‌

Transliteration

evam evāvagantavyaṃ nānātvaikatvam etayoḥ | etad dhi mokṣa ity uktaṃ avyaktajñānasaṃhitam ||

Translation

Так следует понимать: относительно этих двух — многообразия и единства — оба должны быть постигнуты верно. Ибо именно это называется освобождением (mokṣa): осуществлённое знание, сопряжённое с ведением Непроявленного (avyakta), где множественное видится, не теряя из виду Единое.

Word by Word

एवम्thus, in this manner

एवindeed, just

अवगन्तव्यम्is to be understood

नानात्वम्diversity, multiplicity

एकत्वम्unity, oneness

एतयोःof these two

एतत्this

हिindeed, for

मोक्षःliberation

इतिthus, as (quoted)

उक्तम्is said, has been stated

अव्यक्त-ज्ञान-संहितम्connected with knowledge of the unmanifest

Speaker

वसिष्ठ उवाच

Characters & Entities

व

वसिष्ठ (Vasiṣṭha)

म

मोक्ष (Mokṣa)

अ

अव्यक्त (the Unmanifest)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Liberation is described as the integrated understanding of both multiplicity (nānātva) and unity (ekatva), grounded in knowledge of the Unmanifest (avyakta). One sees the world of many without losing the underlying oneness.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vasiṣṭha is instructing his listener in a śānti-parvan style discourse on liberation, clarifying a philosophical point: how to reconcile the experience of diversity with the truth of unity, and identifying this reconciled insight as mokṣa.