Purāṇa / Bhāgavata / Kapila Gītā

Kapila Gītā (कपिलगीता)

In the third skandha of the Bhāgavata, Kapila teaches his mother Devahūti. Kapila here is the avatāra, son of Kardama and Devahūti. The Sāṅkhya Kārikā is Īśvarakṛṣṇa's book, seventy-two verses, already sat on the darśana shelf. Kapila's talk is a Sāṅkhya joined to devotion, spoken by a son to his mother. The hub calls them cousins. This page is the cousin's own door.

Devahūti asks how a bound person gets free. Kapila sets out puruṣa (पुरुष) and prakṛti (प्रकृति), the coming-forth of the world, and the way attention can go back along that coming-forth. Bhakti is the means he trusts. A map of the categories, carried without devotion, is a map a person can hold and still be lost in. The stretch is often printed as chapters 25 through 33 of the third skandha. The mother hears it through, and the skandha tells her release. No śloka is supplied from memory to look like the text.

What she is given

• A picture of how a world comes out of prakṛti when puruṣa is forgotten as other than it.
• A way back: attention, devotion, and the company of people who have already turned.
• Time, consequence, and the lives a mind walks when it will not turn. The skandha is willing to be grim about that walking.
• A hearer who is a parent, so the teaching has a household, the way the Uddhava Gītā later has a friend on the last day.

नेपालीमा

भागवतको तेस्रो स्कन्धमा कपिलले आमा देवहूतिलाई सिकाउँछन्। यहाँ कपिल अवतार हुन्, कर्दम र देवहूतिका छोरा। सांख्यकारिका ईश्वरकृष्णको पुस्तक हो, बहत्तर श्लोक, दर्शनको तहमा पहिले नै राखिएको। कपिलको कुरा भक्तिसँग जोडिएको सांख्य हो, छोराले आमालाई भनेको। मुख्य पृष्ठले तिनीहरूलाई दाजुभाइ भन्छ। यो पृष्ठ त्यही दाजुभाइको आफ्नै ढोका हो।

देवहूति सोध्छिन्, बाँधिएको मानिस कसरी मुक्त हुन्छ। कपिलले पुरुष र प्रकृति, संसारको निस्कन, र ध्यान त्यही बाटो फर्कन सक्ने कुरा राख्छन्। उनले भरोसा गरेको साधन भक्ति हो। श्रेणीको नक्सा, भक्तिबिना बोकेको, मानिसले हातमा राखेर पनि हराउन सक्ने नक्सा हो। यो अंश प्रायः तेस्रो स्कन्धको अध्याय २५ देखि ३३ सम्म छापिन्छ। आमाले सुन्छिन्, र स्कन्धले उनको मुक्ति भन्छ। पाठजस्तो देखाउन सम्झनाबाट कुनै श्लोक हालिएको छैन।

Where it sits

The four seed verses are what Brahmā heard before a world. Kapila is a teacher inside a world, speaking to one mother. The twenty-four teachers of the eleventh skandha, sat as Bhāgavata 11.7.33–35, are a later lesson in the same purāṇa. Their speaker is an avadhūta talking to King Yadu. Kapila's hearer is Devahūti.