Shloka 10
Adhyāya 314 — हिमवदाश्रमः, शक्तिक्षेपकथा, तथा स्वाध्यायविधिः
Himalayan Hermitage, the Myth of the Thrown Spear, and Rules of Vedic Study
ज्ञानिनां सम्भवं श्रेष्ठ स्थानमव्रणमच्युतम् । अतीन्द्रियमबीजं च जन्ममृत्युतमोनुदम्,जहाँ किसी प्रकारका कष्ट नहीं है, जहाँसे कभी पतन नहीं होता है, जो इन्द्रियातीत है, जहाँ बन्धनमें डालनेवाला कोई कारण नहीं है तथा जो जन्म, मृत्यु और अज्ञानका विनाश करनेवाला है, वह श्रेष्ठ स्थान (परमपद) ज्ञानियोंको ही प्राप्त हो सकता है
yājñavalkya uvāca | jñānināṃ sambhavaṃ śreṣṭhaṃ sthānam avraṇam acyutam | atīndriyam abījaṃ ca janma-mṛtyu-tamo-nudam ||
Yājñavalkya said: The highest goal attainable by the wise is that supreme state—unwounded and undecaying, never falling away—beyond the reach of the senses and without any seed that could generate bondage again. It dispels the darkness of ignorance and brings an end to the cycle of birth and death.
याज़्वल्क्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation (the supreme state) is attainable through wisdom: it is imperishable, beyond sensory experience, free from the causal ‘seed’ of bondage, and it eradicates ignorance along with birth and death.
In the didactic setting of the Śānti Parva, the sage Yājñavalkya is describing the nature of the highest goal (parama-pada) and emphasizing that it is reached by the jñānins—those established in true knowledge.