Shloka 16
Adhyaya 42 — Dattatreya on the Yogic Import of Oṃ (Praṇava): Matras, Worlds, and Liberation
प्राप्रोति ब्रह्मणि लयं परमे परमात्मनि ।
अक्षीणकर्मबन्धश्च ज्ञात्वा मृत्युमरिष्टतः ॥
prāproti brahmaṇi layaṃ parame paramātmani /
akṣīṇa-karma-bandhaś ca jñātvā mṛtyum ariṣṭataḥ //
Er erlangt das Aufgehen in Brahman — dem Höchsten, dem höchsten Selbst. Und indem er den Tod erkennt, wie er wirklich ist, wird er unerschütterlich und frei von Furcht, selbst wenn das Band des Karma noch nicht völlig erschöpft ist.
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FAQs
Realization grants fearlessness: one may still live through residual karma, yet inwardly abides in Brahman. The ethical implication is steadiness and non-reactivity, grounded in insight rather than circumstances.
Again, this is not a genealogical or cosmological mark; it is mokṣa-śāstra embedded in Purāṇic discourse, a common Purāṇic function alongside Pancalakṣaṇa materials.
The verse hints at jīvanmukti logic: absorption in the Highest while karmic traces persist (prārabdha-like remainder). ‘Knowing death’ implies seeing it as a transition of upādhis (limiting adjuncts), not of the Self.