Shloka 30
Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)
ज्ञानेन कुरुते यत्नं यत्नेन प्राप्पते महत् | महद् द्वन््धप्रमोक्षाय सा सिद्धिरया वयो5तिगा
jñānena kurute yatnaṃ yatnena prāpyate mahat | mahad dvandva-pramokṣāya sā siddhir iyam atyagā ||
जनक बोले—ज्ञान के द्वारा मनुष्य मुक्ति के लिए यत्न करता है; उस यत्न से ‘महत्’ (महान् आत्मबोध) की प्राप्ति होती है। वही महान् आत्मबोध सुख-दुःख आदि द्वन्द्वों से विमुक्ति का साधन है; वही सिद्धि है जो काल—अर्थात् मृत्यु—को भी लाँघ जाती है।
जनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
Knowledge must be made active through disciplined effort; that effort culminates in profound Self-realization, which frees one from the tyranny of opposites like pleasure and pain and is therefore a true spiritual attainment that transcends even death.
In the Shanti Parva’s instruction on peace and liberation, King Janaka speaks as a teacher, explaining how sustained striving grounded in knowledge leads to the highest realization and to freedom from worldly dualities.