Shloka 7
अव्यक्त-गुण-पुरुषविवेकः | Avyakta, Guṇas, and Discrimination of Puruṣa
यानि चान्यानि द्वन्द्वानि प्राकृतानि शरीरिषु । उत्पद्यन्ते विचित्राणि तान्येषो5प्यभिमन्यते
yāni cānyāni dvandvāni prākṛtāni śarīriṣu | utpadyante vicitrāṇi tāny eṣo 'py abhimanyate ||
Sinabi ni Vasiṣṭha: “At anumang iba pang sari-saring salungatan—likas, na umuusbong sa mga nilalang na may katawan—ang taong ito man ay, dahil sa maling pag-aakala, iniisip na siya’y sinasalanta ng lahat ng iyon.”
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.