Shloka 16
Nārāyaṇasya Guhya-nāmāni Niruktāni (Etymologies of Nārāyaṇa’s Secret Epithets) / नारायणस्य गुह्यनामानि निरुक्तानि
आत्मभूतैरतदभूत: सह चैव विनैव च । स विमुक्तः परं श्रेयो नचिरेणाधितिष्ठति
ātmabhūtair atadbhūtaḥ saha caiva vinaiva ca | sa vimuktaḥ paraṃ śreyo na cireṇādhitiṣṭhati ||
जो देह और इन्द्रियों के साथ रहते हुए भी उनसे तद्रूप नहीं होता—उनके साथ भी और उनसे अलग भी रहता है—वही वास्तव में मुक्त है; वह बहुत शीघ्र परम श्रेय में स्थित हो जाता है।
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation arises from non-identification: even while the body and senses function, one should not take them to be the self. With controlled senses and non-attachment to objects, one quickly attains the highest good.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on peace and liberation, Nārada describes the mark of a liberated person: living amid embodied life yet remaining inwardly separate from the body-sense complex, and thus swiftly reaching supreme welfare.