Shloka 86

नारद–शुक संवादः

Impermanence, Svabhāva, and Śuka’s Resolve for Yoga

Devanagari script

सांख्या: सर्वे सांख्यधर्मे रताश्न तद्धद्‌ योगा योगधर्मे रताश्न । ये चाप्यन्ये मोक्षकामा मनुष्या- स्तेषामेतद्‌ दर्शन ज्ञानदृष्टम्‌ू,सांख्यधर्ममें तत्पर रहनेवाले सम्पूर्ण सांख्यवेत्ता, योग-धर्मपरायण योगी तथा दूसरे जो मोक्षकी अभिलाषा रखनेवाले मनुष्य हैं, उन सबको यह उपदेश ज्ञानका प्रत्यक्ष फल देनेवाला है

Transliteration

sāṅkhyāḥ sarve sāṅkhyadharme ratāś ca tadvad yogā yogadharme ratāś ca | ye cāpy anye mokṣakāmā manuṣyās teṣām etad darśanaṃ jñānadṛṣṭam ||

Translation

Yājñavalkya sprach: „Alle, die der Disziplin des Sāṅkhya ergeben sind, ebenso die Yogins, die der Disziplin des Yoga ergeben sind, und auch alle anderen Menschen, die nach Befreiung verlangen—für sie ist diese Lehre. Es ist eine Schau, im Wissen gegründet, die den unmittelbarsten Ertrag der Einsicht denen schenkt, die ernsthaft nach mokṣa streben.“

Word by Word

• {'sāṅkhyāḥ': 'followers/knowers of Sāṅkhya

• those devoted to discriminative analysis of reality', 'sarve': 'all', 'sāṅkhya-dharma': 'the discipline/path of Sāṅkhya (a way of life grounded in discernment)', 'ratāḥ': 'engaged in, devoted to, delighting in', 'tadvad': 'likewise, in the same way', 'yogāḥ': 'yogins

• practitioners of Yoga', 'yoga-dharma': 'the discipline/path of Yoga (practice-oriented spiritual discipline)', 'anye': 'others', 'mokṣa-kāmāḥ': 'desiring liberation', 'manuṣyāḥ': 'human beings', 'teṣām': 'for them/of them', 'etat': 'this (teaching/instruction)', 'darśanam': 'vision

• direct seeing', 'jñāna': 'knowledge

• liberating insight', 'dṛṣṭam': 'seen/realized

Speaker

याज़्वल्क्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Yājñavalkya
• Sāṅkhya
• Yoga
• mokṣa (liberation)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The instruction is presented as universally applicable to sincere seekers of liberation—whether they follow Sāṅkhya (discernment and analysis), Yoga (practice and discipline), or other mokṣa-oriented paths. Its hallmark is that it leads to direct, experiential knowledge (jñāna) rather than mere theory.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Śānti Parva’s didactic setting, Yājñavalkya is delivering a philosophical discourse on liberation. Here he explicitly addresses multiple spiritual constituencies—Sāṅkhyas, yogins, and other seekers—framing his teaching as a shared, insight-producing guidance for all who aim at mokṣa.