अव्यक्त-गुण-पुरुषविवेकः | Avyakta, Guṇas, and Discrimination of Puruṣa
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evameṣo 'sakṛt pūrvaṁ krīḍārtham abhimanyate
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वसिष्ठ उवाच
The verse criticizes the tendency to trivialize serious matters: a person repeatedly falls into the habit of treating life, duty, or moral consequence as mere entertainment, which signals ethical carelessness and delusion.
Vasiṣṭha is commenting on someone’s recurring mindset—describing how, as in the past, he again and again ‘considers it play,’ implying a repeated failure to learn or to adopt a sober, dharmic perspective.