Shloka 31
अव्यक्त-गुण-पुरुषविवेकः | Avyakta, Guṇas, and Discrimination of Puruṣa
प्रकृति: कुरुते देवी भव॑ प्रलयमेव च । दिवसान्ते गुणानेतानभ्येत्यैको&वतिष्ठते
prakṛtiḥ kurute devī bhavaṃ pralayam eva ca | divasānte guṇān etān abhyetya eko ’vatiṣṭhate ||
Vasiṣṭha nói: “Prakṛti—năng lực thiêng liêng của tự nhiên—làm phát sinh cả hiển lộ (trở thành) lẫn tan rã. Nhưng đến cuối chu kỳ, khi các guṇa ấy đã được thu nhiếp trở lại, chỉ có Đấng Nhất Thể còn an trụ.”
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
Nature (prakṛti), constituted by the guṇas, is responsible for the cycles of manifestation and dissolution; when the guṇas subside at the end of the cycle, the ultimate One alone abides—pointing to a reality beyond changing qualities.
Vasiṣṭha is instructing on cosmological and philosophical principles: the world-process arises and ends through prakṛti’s guṇas, but the final ground of being is the One that remains when all qualities and transformations are withdrawn.