Shloka 22
मृत्योर्ब्रह्मणा नियोजनम् — The Commissioning of Mṛtyu by Brahmā
जो सामान्यतः सम्पूर्ण भूतों और भौतिक गुणोंका त्याग कर देता है, उस मुनिका दुःख उसी प्रकार सुखपूर्वक अनायास नष्ट हो जाता है, जैसे सूर्योदयसे अन्धकार ।।
yaḥ sāmānyataḥ sampūrṇaṃ bhūtānāṃ bhautikaguṇānāṃ ca tyāgaṃ karoti, tasya muneḥ duḥkhaṃ tathā sukhapūrvakam anāyāsena naśyati yathā sūryodayād andhakāram. tamatikrāntakarmāṇam atikrāntaguṇakṣayam | brāhmaṇaṃ viṣayāśśliṣṭaṃ jarāmṛtyū na vindataḥ ||
Vyāsa said: “When a sage, in a general and comprehensive way, relinquishes attachment to all beings and to the material qualities, his sorrow disappears easily and without strain—just as darkness vanishes at sunrise. One who has gone beyond the compulsion of actions and exhausted the sway of the guṇas, a true knower of Brahman and unentangled in sense-objects, is not overtaken by old age and death.”
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
Suffering ends naturally when one relinquishes attachment to beings and material qualities; the Brahman-knower who is free from clinging to sense-objects and has transcended karma and the guṇas is not spiritually bound by aging and death.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on liberation, Vyāsa explains to the listener that renunciation and inner detachment lead to effortless dissolution of sorrow, using the sunrise-darkness image, and he characterizes the liberated knower as beyond karma, guṇas, and sense-attachment.