Shloka 1
जनक–सुलभा संवादः
Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment
अप्-#-रू- अष्टाधिकांत्रेशततमो< ध्याय: क्षर-अक्षर और परमात्म-तत्त्वका वर्णन
vasiṣṭha uvāca | atha buddham athābuddham imaṃ guṇavidhiṃ śṛṇu | ātmānaṃ bahudhā kṛtvā tāny eva pravicakṣate ||
婆悉吒说道：“大王啊，如今且听我说：觉者（至上我）、未觉者（个体我），以及由诸‘德’（guṇa）所构成的此显现秩序。个体我将自身造作成种种形相，却又执著认定那些形相本身为真实。”
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
Vasiṣṭha distinguishes the fully awakened principle (buddha, aligned with the Supreme Self) from the unawakened individual self (abuddha) and explains how the guṇa-constituted world-process leads the jīva to project itself into many forms and then mistake those projections as reality—setting up the need for discernment and liberation-oriented knowledge.
Vasiṣṭha addresses a king and begins a concluding instruction: he announces that he will describe the Supreme, the individual soul, and the guṇa-made cosmos, framing the jīva’s experience as a misrecognition of its own manifold self-projections.