अव्यक्त–पुरुष–विवेकः (Discrimination of Avyakta/Prakṛti and Puruṣa) — Yājñavalkya’s Anvīkṣikī to Viśvāvasu
सर्वमेतद् विजानन्तो नासर्वस्य प्रबोधनात् | व्यक्ती भूता भविष्यन्ति व्यक्तस्य वशवर्तिन:
sarvam etad vijānanto nāsarvasya prabodhanāt | vyaktī bhūtā bhaviṣyanti vyaktasya vaśavartinaḥ ||
婆悉吒(Vasiṣṭha)说道:“若有人只知此一切显现之广大境界,却因未被唤醒而了悟那超越‘一切’之至上者,则必定仍为具身众生。既系缚于显现之域,便继续受其支配,沦为随身而起的诸种强迫与过失之奴,如欲与嗔等。”
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Knowing only the manifest world is incomplete; without awakening to the Supreme ground beyond the manifest, one remains bound to embodiment and thus vulnerable to passions and faults such as desire and anger.
Vasiṣṭha is instructing his listener in a liberation-oriented discourse, contrasting mere comprehension of the phenomenal world with true awakening to the transcendent principle; he warns that the former keeps one under the sway of the manifest and its compulsions.