Shloka 7
Sanatsujāta on the Imperceptible Eternal Light (यत्तच्छुक्रं महज्ज्योतिः)
द्वादशपूगां सरितं पिबन्तो देवरक्षिताम् । मध्वीक्षन्तश्न ते तस्या: संचरन्तीह घोराम् । योगिनस्तं प्रपश्यन्ति भगवन्तं सनातनम्,जो दस इन्द्रियाँ, मन और बुद्धि--इन बारहके समुदायसे युक्त है तथा जो परमात्मासे सुरक्षित है, उस संसाररूप भयंकर नदीके विषयरूप मधुर जलको देखने और पीनेवाले लोग उसीमें गोता लगाते रहते हैं। इससे मुक्त करनेवाले उस सनातन परमात्माका योगीजन साक्षात्कार करते हैं
dvādaśapūgāṃ saritaṃ pibanto devarakṣitām | madhvīkṣantaś ca te tasyāḥ sañcarantīha ghorām | yoginas taṃ prapaśyanti bhagavantaṃ sanātanam ||
Sanatsujāta said: Those who, bound to the twelvefold aggregate—sense-organs, mind, and intellect—drink from the river of worldly existence, guarded by the Divine, keep moving within that dreadful stream, merely beholding its objects as if they were sweet like honey. But yogins behold that eternal Lord—the one who can deliver beings from this current—directly.
सनत्सुजात उवाच
Educational Q&A
Worldly life is likened to a fearful river whose objects appear honey-sweet; beings attached to the twelvefold apparatus (senses, mind, intellect) keep circulating within it. Liberation comes through yogic insight that directly realizes the eternal Lord beyond sense-driven experience.
In the Sanatsujātīya section of the Udyoga Parva, Sanatsujāta instructs (in a philosophical discourse) that most people remain immersed in saṃsāra due to attraction to sense-objects, while yogins perceive the eternal Bhagavān who can free one from that bondage.