Shloka 36

अव्यक्त-गुण-पुरुषविवेकः | Avyakta, Guṇas, and Discrimination of Puruṣa

Devanagari script

एवं द्वन्द्चान्यथैतानि समावर्तन्ति नित्यश: । ममैवैतानि जायन्ते धावन्ते तानि मामिति,इस प्रकार प्रकृतिकी प्रेरणासे स्वभावत: सुख-दुःखादि द्वन्द्"ोंकी सदा पुनरावृत्ति होती रहती है; किंतु जीवात्मा अज्ञानवश यह मान बैठता है कि ये सारे द्वन्द्ध मुझपर ही धावा करते हैं और मुझे इनसे निस्तार पानेकी चेष्टा करनी चाहिये। (ऐसा मानकर वह दुखी होता है) नरेश्वर! प्रकृतिसे संयुक्त हुआ पुरुष अज्ञानवश यह मान लेता है कि मैं देवलोकमें जाकर अपने समस्त प्रण्योंक फलका उपभोग करूँगा और पूर्वजन्मके किये हुए शुभाशुभ कर्मोंका जो फल प्रकट हो रहा है, उसे यहीं भोगूँगा

Transliteration

evaṁ dvandvān yathaitāni samāvartanti nityaśaḥ | mamaivaitāni jāyante dhāvante tāni mām iti ||

Translation

एवं द्वन्द्वान्यथैतानि समावर्तन्ति नित्यशः । ममैवैतानि जायन्ते धावन्ते तानि मामिति ॥

Word by Word

एवम्thus, in this manner

द्वन्द्वाःpairs of opposites

अन्यथाotherwise, in another way

एतानिthese

समावर्तन्तिreturn, recur

नित्यशःalways, continually

ममof me / to me

एवindeed, just

एतानिthese

जायन्तेare born, arise

धावन्तेrun, rush

तानिthose

माम्me

इतिthus (quotative)

Speaker

वसिष्ठ उवाच

Characters & Entities

व

वसिष्ठ (Vasiṣṭha)

न

नरेश्वर (Nareśvara, ‘lord of men’—addressee)

प

प्रकृति (Prakṛti)

प

पुरुष (Puruṣa)

द

देवलोक (Devaloka)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Dualities like pleasure and pain recur naturally; suffering intensifies when the self appropriates them as ‘happening to me.’ This egoic misreading, rooted in ignorance and identification with Prakṛti, fuels anxiety about escaping experiences and about enjoying or fearing karmic results.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vasiṣṭha instructs a kingly listener (addressed as ‘Nareśvara’) in a reflective, philosophical discourse. He explains how the embodied person misconstrues recurring life-experiences as personal attacks and spins expectations about heavenly enjoyment and karmic fruition, thereby remaining bound to distress.