Shloka 22
Yoga, Nārāyaṇa as Supreme Principle, and the Emanation of Categories
Sāṅkhya-Yoga Outline
जैसे सूर्यग्रहणकालमें चन्द्रमा सूर्यसे संयुक्त होनेपर सूर्यमें छायारूपी राहुका दर्शन होता है, उसी प्रकार शरीरसे संयुक्त होनेपर शरीरधारी आत्माकी उपलब्धि होती है ।।
yathā candrārka-nirmuktaḥ sa rāhunopalabhyate | tadvac charīra-nirmuktaḥ śarīrī nopalabhyate ||
قال بهيشما: «كما أنّ ظلَّ راهو يُدرَك في الشمس حين يقترن القمر بالشمس وقت الكسوف، كذلك لا تُدرَك “الذات المتجسِّدة” إلا باقتران الذات بالجسد. وكما أنّه إذا انفصل القمر عن الشمس لا يُدرَك راهو هناك، كذلك إذا انفصلت الذات عن الجسد لا تكون “الذات المتجسِّدة” موضوعًا للإبصار.»
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Perception of the ‘embodied self’ depends on the body as a condition and instrument; when that association is absent, the self is not available to ordinary sense-perception—implying the Self is subtler than what the senses can objectify.
In Shanti Parva’s instruction on dharma and liberation, Bhishma explains to the listener (Yudhishthira contextually) a philosophical point using an eclipse analogy: Rāhu’s presence is inferred/seen only under conjunction, just as the self is ‘noticed’ in embodied life but not as a visible object when separated from the body.