Shloka 92
अविद्याबीज-निरूपणं, योगस्वरूप-उपदेशः, मूर्तहरिधारणा-समाधि, जनकवंशीय-राजर्षिसंवादः
विज्ञानं प्रापकं प्राप्ये परे ब्रह्मणि पार्थिव प्रापणीयस् तथैवात्मा प्रक्षीणाशेषभावनः
vijñānaṃ prāpakaṃ prāpye pare brahmaṇi pārthiva prāpaṇīyas tathaivātmā prakṣīṇāśeṣabhāvanaḥ
O king, when the Supreme Brahman is the goal to be attained, vijñāna—discriminative realization—becomes the means that carries one there; and the Self, attainable in that Supreme, is realized only when every residual tendency of imagination and conditioning has been utterly exhausted.
Sage Parāśara (teaching within the Vishnu Purana’s moksha discourse)
Concept: When the Supreme Brahman is the goal, vijñāna (discriminative realization) is the direct means, and realization dawns only after all residual imaginings/conditioning are exhausted.
Vedantic Theme: Moksha
Application: Cultivate viveka through study and contemplation, and reduce vāsanā-s via disciplined sense-restraint, meditation, and ethical living until the mind’s projections subside.
Vishishtadvaita: Brahman is the supreme prāpya (attainable Lord) while the individual self’s purification is required for direct realization—liberation as right relation/vision rather than mere intellectual assent.
Vishnu Form: Para-Brahman
Bhakti Type: Shanta
FAQs
This verse presents vijñāna as the direct instrument of attainment—realization that leads the seeker to the Supreme Brahman rather than mere intellectual learning.
He states that the Self is truly realized when all remaining mental constructions and habitual tendencies (aśeṣa-bhāvanā) are completely exhausted.
The verse frames Para Brahman as the highest goal and implies that liberation culminates in realizing the Supreme Reality—understood in the Vishnu Purana’s theology as the supreme principle identified with Vishnu.