SB 1.4.5
तद्वीक्ष्य पृच्छति मुनौ जगदुस्तवास्ति स्त्रीपुम्भिदा न तु सुतस्य विविक्तदृष्टेः ॥ ५ ॥
devyo hriyā paridadhur na sutasya citram
tad vīkṣya pṛcchati munau jagadus tavāsti
strī-pum-bhidā na tu sutasya vivikta-dṛṣṭeḥ
Synonyms
[Śuka’s transcendence of duality is now illustrated (nirvikalpatvaṁ prapañcayati dṛṣṭveti).18]; devyaḥ — [when] the maidens [who were bathing naked in the water (jale krīḍantyaḥ devyaḥ apsarasaḥ)]; dṛṣṭvā — saw; ṛṣim — the sage [Vyāsa]; anuyāntam — who was following [anugacchantam]; ātmajam — after his son [Śuka, who had left home to become a mendicant (śukaṁ pravrajantam)]; paridadhuḥ — they quickly dressed themselves [vastra-paridhānaṁ kṛtavatyaḥ]; hriyā — out of modesty [lajjayā]; anagnam api — even though the sage himself was not naked [here implying that his son was naked (tat-sūto nagna ity uktam)]; na — [yet] they did not do so [did not feel shame nor cover themselves (hriyā na paridadhuḥ)]; sutasya — in the case of his son [who passed them naked just a moment before (nagnasya purato gacchataḥ)]; munau — when the sage [Vyāsa]; vīkṣya — noticed; tat — this; citram — curious behavior; pṛcchati — [and] inquired [as to its cause]; jagaduḥ — [the maidens] replied [uttaraṁ daduḥ19]; strī-pum-bhidā — the distinction between female and male [the dualistic notion by which one thinks, “this is a woman and this is a man” (iyaṁ strī ayaṁ pumān iti bhidā bhedaḥ)]; tava asti — belongs to you [is held to by you]; tu — but; na — not; sutasya — to your son [for whom the conception of difference does not exist (punar bheda-matir nāsti)]; [the reason for this is now stated (tatra hetuḥ)20]; vivikta-dṛṣṭeḥ — [because] his vision is completely pure [(pūtā dṛṣṭir yasya); or utterly apart from the notion of “female and male” or “enjoyed and enjoyer,” i.e., “from object-subject-relations” (prakṛti-puruṣa-vilakṣaṇe), being fixed on Paramātmā alone (paramātmany eva dṛṣṭir yasya)21].
Translation
When the maidens, who were bathing naked in the water, saw the sage [Vyāsa], who was following after his son [Śuka], they quickly dressed themselves out of modesty, even though Vyāsa himself was not naked. Yet, they did not do so in the case of his son, who passed them naked just a moment before. When the sage noticed this curious behavior and inquired as to its cause, the maidens replied, “The dualistic notion of female and male is held to by you but not by your son because his vision is completely pure.”