# Leela Square 46: Conscience (vivek) Meaning

Square 46 in Leela is Conscience, vivek, the first square of the sixth row. Johari describes it as the inner wisdom that tells the subtle from the gross, the faculty of the third eye. It is an arrow: landing here lifts the player to square 62, Happiness, in the seventh row. In Johari's words, the player is immediately transported to happiness.

## Meaning

Johari describes vivek as inner wisdom discerning the subtle from the gross, the function of the third eye. "When the player lands on the square of conscience he is immediately transported to happiness." Conscience here is not a set of rules learned from outside. It is a clear inner sense of what is true and what is not.

Vivek, or viveka, means discrimination in the old sense of the word: the ability to distinguish. Indian traditions treat it as a key quality on the path, the power to separate the lasting from the passing and the essential from the superficial.

Square 46 opens row 6, which Johari calls The Time of Penance and links to Ajna, the third-eye chakra between the eyebrows. He maps this row onto the years 35 to 42, when a person becomes the observer of their own patterns. It fits that this row begins with conscience: the player who has become fully human in row 5 now learns to see and judge their own movements from within.

The teaching is that happiness follows from listening inwardly. Square 46 asks you to notice the quiet voice that already knows, and to give it as much weight as the louder voices around you.

## On the board

Square 46 is the first square of row 6, reached by a throw from the end of row 5, from squares 40 to 43. Players landing on 44 or 45 are carried away by the snake or arrow there. No arrow or snake ends on 46. On landing, the arrow of conscience lifts the player from row 6 to square 62, Happiness, in row 7.

The verse is Gita 18.30: sattvic understanding knows what to do and what not to do, what to fear and what not to fear, what binds and what frees. Its episode is Arjuna choosing Krishna, unarmed, over Krishna's whole army, a choice of the subtle over the gross.

## Questions

- What is my conscience telling me?
- When did I last ignore an inner signal, and what happened?
- Which choice in front of me would look different if I judged it by its subtle effects?

**What happens when you land on square 46 in Leela?**
Square 46, Conscience (vivek), holds an arrow. When you land on it you rise from the sixth row to square 62, Happiness, in the seventh row. Johari writes that the player who lands on conscience is immediately transported to happiness. Play then continues from square 62.

**What does vivek mean in the game of Leela?**
Vivek is Sanskrit for discernment, the power to tell one thing from another. In Leela it names square 46, Conscience: inner wisdom that distinguishes the subtle from the gross. Johari links it to the third eye, the sixth chakra, which governs the row where square 46 stands.