Shloka 7
Adhyāya 51: Kṛṣṇa’s Leave-Taking and Departure for Dvārakā (द्वारकागमनानुमति)
अव्यक्तादि विशेषान्तं सहस्थावरजड्रमम् । सूर्यचन्द्रप्रभालोकं ग्रहनक्षत्रमण्डितम्
avyaktādi-viśeṣāntaṁ saha-sthāvara-jaḍa-dramam | sūrya-candra-prabhā-lokaṁ graha-nakṣatra-maṇḍitam | idaṁ jagad ekaṁ brahma-vanaṁ | avyakta-prakṛtir asyādaḥ | pañca-mahābhūta-daśendriyāṇi caikaṁ mana iti ṣoḍaśa-viśeṣaiḥ asya vistāraḥ | idaṁ carācara-prāṇibhir pūrṇam | sūrya-candrādi-prakāśaiḥ prakāśitam | graha-nakṣatraiḥ suśobhitam | nadī-parvata-saṅghaiḥ sarvato vibhūṣitam | nānā-vidha-jalaiḥ sadālaṅkṛtam | etat sarva-bhūtānāṁ jīvanaṁ sarva-prāṇināṁ ca gatiḥ | asmin brahma-vane kṣetrajñaś carati |
风神曰：“此宇宙乃一梵林。其始为未显之自性（avyakta·Prakṛti），其展开至诸差别原理——五大、十根与一心——合为十六。其间充满动与不动之众生。日月光辉照耀其上，行星与星宿点缀其间；群山众川环饰四方，万类水域常为庄严。此乃一切众生之生命，亦为诸有情之行程。在此梵林之中，‘知田者’（kṣetrajña）徘徊游行。”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents the cosmos as a ‘forest of Brahman’: an all-encompassing field arising from unmanifest Prakṛti and structured through key principles (elements, senses, mind). Within this vast, ornamented universe, the kṣetrajña—the conscious self—moves as an experiencer/witness, pointing toward self-knowledge and discernment between consciousness and nature.
Vāyudeva is instructing the listener by describing the universe in a vivid, poetic cosmological image. He reframes the world’s diversity (sun, moon, stars, rivers, mountains, beings) as a single coherent domain, preparing a philosophical reflection on the self (kṣetrajña) that traverses and experiences this ‘field’.