Shloka 50
सर्वमव्यक्तमित्युक्तमसर्व: पजचविंशक: । य एनमभिजानन्ति न भयं तेषु विद्यते,'सर्व” नाम है अव्यक्त प्रकृतिका और उससे भिन्न पचीसवें तत्त्व परमात्माको असर्व कहा गया है। जो उन्हें इस प्रकार जानते हैं, उन्हें आवागमनका भय नहीं होता है
sarvam avyaktam ity uktam asarvaḥ pañcaviṁśakaḥ | ya enam abhijānanti na bhayaṁ teṣu vidyate ||
Vasiṣṭha said: “All that is called ‘the unmanifest’—the primordial Prakṛti. Distinct from it is the twenty-fifth principle, the Supreme Self, termed ‘Asarva’. Those who truly recognize these realities as they are are no longer haunted by fear—especially the fear of repeated coming and going in saṁsāra.”
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Educational Q&A
Discriminative knowledge: understanding the ‘unmanifest’ as Prakṛti and recognizing the distinct twenty-fifth principle (Paramātman) removes existential fear—especially fear of saṁsāric return—because one no longer mistakes the Self for the changing field of nature.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on liberation-oriented philosophy, Vasiṣṭha teaches a Sāṅkhya-like distinction between Prakṛti (the unmanifest source) and the transcendent Self (the 25th principle). He states that those who realize this distinction become free from fear and the cycle of rebirth.