Verses on Sāṃkhya 41.2

41.2

'puruṣasya'; ityādi / puruṣasyārtho dvividhaḥ, viṣayopabhogaḥ kaivalyaṃ ca / tadubhayaṃ pradhānena sampādyam / viṣayopabhogaśca pradhānavibhūtimantareṇa na sambhavati, iti darśanārthaṃ puruṣaḥ pradhānena saṃyujyate / mānaṃ svāṃ vibhūtiṃ darśayitumasamarthātpuruṣeṇa saṃyujyate (?) / dṛṣṭvā sa sarvāṃ vibhūtimanubhūya virasatvād viraktaḥ puruṣaḥ pradhānena tyajyate / tyaktasya kaivalyamityato darśanārthaṃ kaivalyārthaṃ ca dvayorapi saṃyogo matsyodakavadudumbaramaśakaśca //

"Of conscious spirit," and so forth. The purpose of conscious spirit is twofold: experiential enjoyment of sense objects, and isolation. Both of these are to be accomplished by primordial matter. And experiential enjoyment of sense objects is not possible without the manifestation of primordial matter; therefore, conscious spirit connects with primordial matter for the purpose of seeing. [...] Conscious spirit, having seen and experienced all her manifestation, being disaffected due to its lack of true flavor, is abandoned by primordial matter. For the abandoned one, there is isolation; hence, the connection of both is for the purpose of seeing and for the purpose of isolation, like fish and water, and the gnat and the fig tree.