Shloka 7
Yājñavalkya on the Unity of Sāṃkhya and Yoga and the Marks of Meditative Composure
एतामक्षपयित्वा हि जायते नृपसत्तम । सा हास्य प्रकृतिर्दृष्टा तत्क्षयान्मोक्ष उच्यते,नृपश्रेष्ठ जीव अपने अज्ञानवश उस सोलहवीं कलारूप प्रकृतिके संयोगका क्षय नहीं कर पाता, इसलिये बारंबार जन्म ग्रहण करता है। वह ही कला जीवकी प्रकृति अर्थात् उत्पत्तिका कारण देखी गयी है। उसके संयोगका क्षय होनेपर ही मोक्षकी प्राप्ति बतायी जाती है
etām akṣapayitvā hi jāyate nṛpasattama | sā hāsya prakṛtir dṛṣṭā tatkṣayān mokṣa ucyate ||
Vasiṣṭha said: “O best of kings, because the embodied being does not bring about the exhaustion of this bonding principle, he is born again and again. That very portion is seen as his prakṛti—the causal source of his arising. When that conjunction is exhausted, liberation is declared to occur.”
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