Shloka 10

जनक–सुलभा संवादः

Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment

Devanagari script

बुध्यते च परां बुद्धि विशुद्धाममलां यदा

Transliteration

budhyate ca parāṁ buddhiṁ viśuddhām amalāṁ yadā

Translation

وسِشٹھ کہتے ہیں—جب انسان کی اعلیٰ ترین عقل نہایت پاک و بےداغ ہو کر صرف برہمن ہی میں قائم ہو جائے، تب وہ چھبیسویں اصول یعنی پرَب्रह्म کا براہِ راست ادراک کر کے اسی کی صورت و سرشت کا ہو جاتا ہے۔ اس حالت میں وہ نِتّیہ شُدھ-بُدھ برہمن-بھاو میں مستقر رہتا ہے اور تخلیق و فنا کے قانون والی اویَکت پرکرتی سے بالکل ماورا ہو جاتا ہے۔

Word by Word

• बुध्यते: is understood/awakens (to knowledge)
• बुध्यते: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: बुध्
• Form: लट् (वर्तमान), आत्मनेपद, प्रथम, एकवचन

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• पराम्: supreme, higher
• पराम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: परा
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• बुद्धिम्: intellect, understanding
• बुद्धिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: बुद्धि
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• विशुद्धाम्: completely pure
• विशुद्धाम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विशुद्ध
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• अमलाम्: stainless, spotless
• अमलाम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अमल
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• यदा: when
• यदा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यदा

Speaker

वसिष्ठ उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vasiṣṭha
• Brahman (Parabrahman)
• Jīvātman
• Avyakta Prakṛti

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

When the intellect becomes perfectly purified and fixed on Brahman, direct realization arises; one becomes established in Brahman-consciousness and thereby transcends unmanifest Prakṛti and its cycle of creation and dissolution.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vasiṣṭha is instructing a king (nṛpaśreṣṭha) in liberation-teaching: he describes the inner transformation of buddhi culminating in Brahman-realization and freedom from the cosmic processes governed by Prakṛti.