Shloka 62
नारद–शुक संवादः
Impermanence, Svabhāva, and Śuka’s Resolve for Yoga
कश्यपस्य पितुश्चैव पूर्वमेव मया श्रुतम् । मैंने मुनिवर जैगीषव्य
kaśyapasya pituś caiva pūrvam eva mayā śrutam | munivara jaigīṣavyaḥ asitaḥ devalaḥ brahmarṣiḥ parāśaraḥ buddhimān vārṣagaṇyaḥ bhṛguḥ pañcaśikhaḥ kapilaḥ śukaḥ gautamaḥ ārdaśiṣeṇaḥ mahātmā gargaḥ nāradaḥ āsuriḥ buddhimān pulastyaḥ sanatkumāraḥ mahātmā śukraḥ tathā svapitā kaśyapaś ca—eteṣāṃ mukhataḥ pūrvam eva asmin viṣaye pratipādanam śrutavān asmi || tadanantaraṃ ca rudrasya viśvarūpasya dhīmataḥ, anyebhyo devatābhyaḥ pitṛbhyaś ca daityebhyaś ca yatra-tatra idaṃ samagraṃ jñānaṃ prāptavān | te sarve jñeya-tattvaṃ pūrṇaṃ nityaṃ ca vadanti |
Yājñavalkya said: “I had already heard this teaching earlier—from my father Kaśyapa, and from Kaśyapa’s father as well. I heard it from the great sages Jaigīṣavya, Asita, Devala, the brahmarṣi Parāśara, the wise Vārṣagaṇya, Bhṛgu, Pañcaśikha, Kapila, Śuka, Gautama, Ārdaśiṣeṇa, the great-souled Garga, Nārada, Āsuri, the wise Pulastya, Sanatkumāra, and the great-souled Śukra. Thereafter too, I obtained this complete knowledge here and there from Rudra of universal form, from the wise Viśvarūpa, and from other deities, the Pitṛs, and even the Daityas. All of them declare the knowable Reality to be whole and eternal.”
याज़्ञवल्क्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
That the highest ‘knowable Reality’ (jñeya-tattva) is described by many authoritative sources as complete and eternal, and that true knowledge is validated through broad, time-tested transmission across sages and even different classes of beings.
Yājñavalkya strengthens his exposition by listing the many teachers from whom he has heard and confirmed this doctrine—his familial lineage, celebrated sages, and later even divine, ancestral, and daitya sources—showing that the teaching is widely attested and consistently characterized as eternal.