Shloka 24

जनक–सुलभा संवादः

Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment

Devanagari script

एवमेवावगन्तव्यं नानात्वैकत्वमेतयो: । एतद्धि मोक्ष इत्युक्तमव्यक्तज्ञानसंहितम्‌

Transliteration

evam evāvagantavyaṃ nānātvaikatvam etayoḥ | etad dhi mokṣa ity uktaṃ avyaktajñānasaṃhitam ||

Translation

Vì thế cần hiểu như vầy: đối với hai mặt—đa tạp và nhất thể—cả hai đều phải được lĩnh hội đúng đắn. Quả thật, đó được gọi là giải thoát (mokṣa): một sự chứng ngộ gắn liền với tri kiến về Vô Hiển (avyakta), nơi cái nhiều được thấy mà vẫn không đánh mất cái Một.

Word by Word

• एवम्: thus, in this manner
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम्

• एव: indeed, just
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• अवगन्तव्यम्: is to be understood
• Type: Verb
• Root: अव + गम्
• Form: तव्यत्, Neuter, Nominative, Singular, gerundive/obligative (to be understood)

• नानात्वम्: diversity, multiplicity
• Type: Noun
• Root: नानात्व
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• एकत्वम्: unity, oneness
• Type: Noun
• Root: एकत्व
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• एतयोः: of these two
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Dual (common), Genitive, Dual

• एतत्: this
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• हि: indeed, for
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि

• मोक्षः: liberation
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्ष
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• इति: thus, as (quoted)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• उक्तम्: is said, has been stated
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: क्त, Neuter, Nominative, Singular, Passive (past participle)

• अव्यक्त-ज्ञान-संहितम्: connected with knowledge of the unmanifest
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अव्यक्त + ज्ञान + संहित
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वसिष्ठ उवाच

Characters & Entities

• वसिष्ठ (Vasiṣṭha)
• मोक्ष (Mokṣa)
• अव्यक्त (the Unmanifest)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Liberation is described as the integrated understanding of both multiplicity (nānātva) and unity (ekatva), grounded in knowledge of the Unmanifest (avyakta). One sees the world of many without losing the underlying oneness.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vasiṣṭha is instructing his listener in a śānti-parvan style discourse on liberation, clarifying a philosophical point: how to reconcile the experience of diversity with the truth of unity, and identifying this reconciled insight as mokṣa.