Shloka 25
Nārada’s Darśana of Viśvarūpa Nārāyaṇa and the Caturmūrti Doctrine (नारदस्य नारायणदर्शनं चतुर्मूर्तिविचारश्च)
अनेन क्रमयोगेन बहुजातिषु कर्मणाम् । हित्वा शुभाशुभं॑ कर्म मोक्षो नामेह लभ्यते,इस तरह क्रमशः नाना प्रकारके कर्मोका अनुष्ठान करते हुए शुभाशुभ कर्मोंकी आसक्तिका परित्याग करनेसे यहाँ मोक्षकी प्राप्ति होती है
anena kramayogena bahujātiṣu karmaṇām | hitvā śubhāśubhaṃ karma mokṣo nāmeha labhyate ||
Janaka said: “By this disciplined path of gradual practice—carried out through many kinds of actions across many births—one attains what is called liberation here, by abandoning attachment to both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ deeds.”
जनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation is attained through a gradual discipline (krama-yoga) in which one continues to act, yet relinquishes clinging to the moral/ritual polarity of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ actions—i.e., abandoning possessiveness and self-centered attachment to results and identity built on merit or sin.
King Janaka is speaking in a didactic setting within the Śānti Parva, presenting a philosophical instruction: over many lives of practice and duty, one matures into detachment, and through that renunciation of attachment to action’s dualities, one reaches mokṣa.