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

因此应当明了：就这两者——多样与一体——二者皆须如理通达。因为这正被称为解脱（mokṣa）：与对“不显”（avyakta）的知识相应的证悟，在其中见众多而不失其一。

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.