Shloka 34
Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)
तद्वद् भगवतानेन शिखा प्रोक्तेन भिक्षुणा । ज्ञानं कृतमबीजं मे विषयेषु न जायते
tadvat bhagavatānena śikhāproktena bhikṣuṇā | jñānaṁ kṛtam abījaṁ me viṣayeṣu na jāyate ||
Janaka said: “So too, the knowledge imparted to me by that venerable mendicant—Pañcaśikha—has been made seedless. Therefore, even when I move amid the ‘field’ of sense-objects, it does not sprout again as attachment or desire. Just as a seed that has been roasted in an earthen shard or any vessel cannot germinate even when it falls on fertile ground, so this wisdom does not generate fresh bondage in the realm of pleasures.”
जनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
True liberating knowledge is ‘seedless’ (abīja): it removes the latent causes that would otherwise sprout into renewed desire, attachment, and bondage. Even while living amid sense-objects, one who has such insight does not generate fresh craving.
King Janaka is speaking about the transformative instruction he received from the ascetic Pañcaśikha. He uses the metaphor of roasted seed—incapable of germination—to explain that his realized knowledge no longer produces attachment in the realm of pleasures.