Shloka 3
जनक–सुलभा संवादः
Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment
अजसं त्विह क्रीडार्थ विकरोति जनाधिप । अव्यक्तबोधनाच्चैव बुध्यमानं वदन्त्यपि
ajasaṃ tv iha krīḍārthaṃ vikaroti janādhipa | avyaktabodhanāc caiva budhyamānaṃ vadanty api ||
وسِشٹھ نے کہا—اے مردمانِ عالم کے سردار! یہ جیوا یہاں لیلا (کھیل) کے لیے اپنی فطری تحریک سے ہی تغیر کو قبول کرتا ہے۔ اور چونکہ اسے اَویَکت (پرکرتی) کا کچھ ادراک ہے، اس لیے رِشی بھی اسے ‘بُدھیَمان’—یعنی جاننے/جاگنے کی حالت میں—کہتے ہیں۔
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames embodied change (vikāra) as a natural, almost playful movement of the jīva within worldly existence, while emphasizing that the jīva is distinguished by cognition—its capacity to apprehend the Unmanifest (avyakta/prakṛti). Hence sages call it ‘budhyamāna’, the self that is actively awakening/knowing.
Vasiṣṭha is instructing a ruler, explaining the nature of the living self in relation to prakṛti: why the jīva appears to transform in the world and how its defining mark is awareness, especially of the subtle, unmanifest ground of experience.