Shloka 19
Bhūta-guṇa-saṃkhyāna
Enumeration of the Properties of the Elements and Cognitive Faculties
त्यक्त्वा पूर्वकृतं कर्म रतिर्यस्थ सदा55त्मनि । सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्य गुणवर्गेष्वसज्जत:
tyaktvā pūrvakṛtaṃ karma ratir yasya sadātmani | sarvabhūtātmabhūtasya guṇavargeṣv asajjataḥ ||
Vyāsa said: He who casts off the residual force of actions done in the past and keeps his love steadily fixed on the Supreme Self becomes, as it were, the very Self of all beings; and among the groups of sense-objects and qualities he never falls into attachment.
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
Renounce the binding force of past actions and keep one’s love fixed on the Self; then one realizes unity with all beings and remains unattached to the guṇa-made world of objects and experiences.
In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on liberation and inner peace, Vyāsa states a mark of the realized person: abandoning the pull of past karma, abiding in the Self, and remaining free from attachment to the guṇas and sense-objects.