Shloka 27
Jarā-Mṛtyu-anatikrama: Janaka–Pañcaśikha-saṃvāda
Aging and Death Cannot Be Overstepped
अयमत्र भवेद् बन्धुरनेन सह मे क्षमम् । साम्यमेकत्वमायातो यादृशस्तादृशस्त्वहम्
ayam atra bhaved bandhur anena saha me kṣamam | sāmyam ekatvam āyāto yādṛśas tādṛśas tv aham ||
“Here, in this very world, the Supreme Self alone is truly my kinsman. With Him alone can my friendship rightly stand. Whatever I may have been before, now I have reached sameness and oneness with Him: as He is, so am I.”
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
Vasiṣṭha teaches that the only unfailing ‘relative’ is the Supreme Self within; through inner realization one attains sameness and unity with that Self, dissolving prior identity and dependence on external bonds.
In Vasiṣṭha’s discourse, he describes his own settled spiritual state: he recognizes the Paramātman as his true companion and declares that he has reached unity with it—expressing the culmination of self-knowledge rather than a social or worldly alliance.