Shloka 7
Adhyāya 314 — हिमवदाश्रमः, शक्तिक्षेपकथा, तथा स्वाध्यायविधिः
Himalayan Hermitage, the Myth of the Thrown Spear, and Rules of Vedic Study
तमसशक्ष् तथा सत्त्वं सत्त्वस्याव्यक्तमेव च | अव्यक्त: सत्त्वसंयुक्तो देवलोकमवाप्नुयात्
tamasaḥ kṣaḥ tathā sattvaṃ sattvasyāvyaktam eva ca | avyaktaḥ sattva-saṃyukto devalokam avāpnuyāt ||
Yājñavalkya dit : « Dans l’entrelacement des guṇa, on observe des conjonctions : tamas avec rajas, rajas avec tamas, tamas avec sattva, et même sattva avec l’Inmanifesté (Avyakta), principe subtil du soi. Cette jonction réciproque de deux facteurs est ce qu’on entend par “dvandva” (dualité). Lorsque le soi individuel s’unit à sattva, il atteint le monde des dieux. »
याज़्वल्क्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that lived experience arises from conjunctions of principles—especially the guṇas—and that the quality of one’s association (saṃyoga) determines one’s destination: association with sattva leads upward to devaloka.
In Śānti Parva’s philosophical instruction, Yājñavalkya explains how mixtures of tamas, rajas, sattva, and the Unmanifest are perceived as ‘duality’ (dvandva), and he states the karmic-cosmological result that a sattva-associated self reaches the divine realm.