Shloka 27

Devanagari script

तेनाहं सांख्यमुख्येन सुदृष्टार्थेन तत्त्वतः । श्रावितस्त्रिविधं मोक्ष न च राज्याद्धि चालित:,वे सांख्यशास्त्रके प्रमुख विद्वान्‌ हैं और सारा सिद्धान्त उन्हें यथावत्‌ रूपसे प्रत्यक्षकी भाँति ठीक-ठीक ज्ञात है। उन्होंने मुझे त्रिविध मोक्षधर्म श्रवण कराया है, परंतु राज्यसे दूर हटनेकी आज्ञा नहीं दी है

Transliteration

tenāhaṃ sāṅkhyamukhyena sudṛṣṭārthena tattvataḥ | śrāvitas trividhaṃ mokṣaṃ na ca rājyād dhi cālitaḥ ||

Translation

সাংখ্যশাস্ত্ৰৰ এক অগ্ৰগণ্য আচার্য—যাঁৰ তত্ত্বাৰ্থদৃষ্টি প্ৰত্যক্ষৰ দৰে স্পষ্ট আৰু সোজা—তেওঁ মোক যথাৰ্থভাৱে উপদেশ দিলে। তেওঁৰ পৰা মই মোক্ষলৈ নিবলৈ সক্ষম ত্ৰিবিধ ধৰ্ম শুনিলোঁ; কিন্তু তেওঁ মোক ৰাজ্য ত্যাগ কৰিবলৈ প্ৰেৰণা নকৰিলে। এই শিক্ষা ক’য়—নিজৰ উচিত কৰ্তব্যৰ পৰা পলায়ন নকৰাকৈও অন্তৰ্মুক্তি আৰু সম্যক জ্ঞান সাধন কৰিব পাৰি।

Word by Word

• {'tena': 'by him

• by that (instrumental of tad)', 'aham': 'I', 'sāṅkhya-mukhyena': 'by a foremost authority in Sāṅkhya (analysis/knowledge tradition)', 'su-dṛṣṭa-arthena': 'by one who has well-seen/clearly understood the meaning (artha)', 'tattvataḥ': 'in truth

• essentially', 'śrāvitaḥ': 'caused to hear

• taught (passive of śrāvayati)', 'trividham': 'threefold', 'mokṣam (mokṣa-dharmam implied)': 'liberation

• the path/discipline of release', 'na ca': 'and not', 'rājyāt': 'from the kingdom

• from kingship', 'hi': 'indeed

• for', 'cālitaḥ': 'moved away

Speaker

जनक उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Janaka
• a foremost Sāṅkhya teacher (unnamed)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Liberation is compatible with responsible worldly station: a king can pursue mokṣa through true knowledge and inner detachment without necessarily abandoning the kingdom, provided dharma is upheld.

What is happening in the narrative?

King Janaka reports that he received instruction from a leading Sāṅkhya knower, learned the threefold teaching on liberation, and emphasizes that the teacher did not compel him to renounce rulership.