Shloka 97
विमुक्त: पुण्यपापे भ्य: प्रविष्टस्तमनामयम् | परमात्मानमगुणं न निवर्तति भारत,भारत! पुण्य-पापसे रहित हुआ सांख्ययोगी मुक्त होकर जब उन्हीं निर्मुण-निर्विकार नारायणस्वरूप परमात्मामें प्रविष्ट हो जाता है, फिर वह इस संसारमें नहीं लौटता है
vimuktaḥ puṇya-pāpebhyaḥ praviṣṭas tam anāmayam | paramātmānam aguṇaṃ na nivartati bhārata bhārata ||
Bhīṣma said: Freed from both merit and sin, the Sāṅkhya-yogin, once liberated, enters that stainless, sorrowless state—the attributeless Supreme Self. Having merged into that Supreme Reality, O Bhārata, he does not return again to this worldly round of birth and death.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation is described as transcending both puṇya and pāpa (all karmic accounting) and entering the attributeless Supreme Self; one who attains this state does not return to saṃsāra.
In Bhīṣma’s instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira in the Śānti Parva, he explains the final outcome of the Sāṅkhya-yogin’s path: release from karmic dualities and irreversible union with the Supreme Reality.