Shloka 25
Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)
पराशरगोत्री संन्यास-धर्मावलम्बी वृद्ध महात्मा पंचशिख मेरे गुरु हैं। मैं उनका परम प्रिय शिष्य हूँ ।। सांख्यज्ञाने च योगे च महीपालविधौ तथा । त्रिविधे मोक्षधर्मेडस्मिन् गताध्वा छिन्नसंशय:
sāṅkhyajñāne ca yoge ca mahīpālavidhau tathā | trividhe mokṣadharme 'smin gatādhvā chinnasaṁśayaḥ ||
Janaka said: “The aged, great-souled Pañcaśikha—of Parāśara’s lineage and devoted to the dharma of renunciation—is my teacher, and I am his most beloved disciple. In Sāṅkhya insight and in Yoga, and likewise in the discipline of kingship, my teacher has fully traversed the path. In this threefold teaching on liberation, he has reached the far shore, with all doubts cut away.”
जनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation-oriented wisdom is presented as a threefold mastery: Sāṅkhya (right knowledge and discrimination), Yoga (inner discipline and practice), and rājadharma (ethical governance). A true teacher is one who has integrated these and become free of doubt.
Janaka is describing the spiritual authority of his teacher, praising him as accomplished in philosophical insight, yogic discipline, and the duties of rulership, thereby establishing the teacher’s credibility in matters of mokṣadharma.