Shloka 25
Adhyāya 283: Varṇa-vṛtti, Nyāya-ārjana, and the Decline-and-Restoration of Dharma (वर्णवृत्तिः न्यायार्जनं च)
अहं विजानामि विशालनेत्रे ध्यानेन हीना न विदन्त्यसन्त: । तवाद्य मोहेन च सेन्द्रदेवा लोकास्त्रय: सर्वत एव मूढा:
ahaṁ vijānāmi viśālanetre dhyānena hīnā na vidanty asantaḥ | tavādya mohena ca sendradevā lokās trayaḥ sarvata eva mūḍhāḥ ||
“然而我自知其真。噢，广目者！心不摄持、无禅定、污秽而无纪律之人，不能了知我的真实本性。但今日因你的迷妄，三界连同因陀罗与诸天，四方尽陷迷惘，不知所措。”
दक्ष उवाच
Educational Q&A
True understanding of higher reality requires dhyāna (disciplined contemplation) and inner purity; those lacking concentration and virtue fail to recognize the speaker’s real nature. Moha (delusion) spreads confusion even among gods, obscuring right action (kartavya).
Dakṣa addresses a “wide-eyed” figure and asserts his own clear knowledge while criticizing others’ inability to grasp his nature due to lack of meditation. He then blames the addressee’s present delusion for causing Indra, the gods, and the three worlds to become thoroughly bewildered and uncertain about what to do.