Shloka 51
अव्यक्त-मानस-सृष्टिवादः
Doctrine of Creation from the Unmanifest ‘Mānasa’
यदा संहरते कामान् कूर्मोडज़ानीव सर्वश: । तदा>5>त्मज्योतिरात्मायमात्मन्येव प्रपश्यति
yadā saṁharate kāmān kūrmo 'ṅgānīva sarvaśaḥ | tadā ātmajyotir ātmāyam ātmany eva prapaśyati ||
قال البراهمن: إذا سحب المرء رغباته كلها سحبًا تامًّا—كما تسحب السلحفاة أطرافها من كل جانب—فإن هذا الذات، المستقرّة في صفاء الباطن، تُبصر في داخلها مباشرةً «الذات» التي هي نورٌ محض.
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Desires and sense-impulses must be gathered back through restraint; when craving is withdrawn, the mind becomes clear and the self directly realizes the self-luminous Ātman within.
In the Śānti Parva’s instructional discourse, a Brāhmaṇa speaker uses the tortoise metaphor to explain the inward turn of discipline: withdrawing outward-running desires leads to inner vision and realization of the supreme Self.