Shloka 101
नारद–शुक संवादः
Impermanence, Svabhāva, and Śuka’s Resolve for Yoga
राजेन्द्र! नरेश्वर! उन्होंने सम्पूर्ण सांख्य
paśyanti yogāḥ sāṅkhyāś ca svaśāstra-kṛta-lakṣaṇāḥ | iṣṭāniṣṭa-vimuktaṃ hi tasthau brahma parātparam, yudhiṣṭhira ||
Bhīṣma berkata: “Wahai Yudhiṣṭhira, para bijak Sāṅkhya dan Yoga, berpegang pada tanda-tanda penentu yang diajarkan dalam śāstra mereka masing-masing, memahami bahwa Brahman Yang Mahatinggi itu sepenuhnya bebas dari dualitas ‘diinginkan’ dan ‘tak diinginkan’—tanpa suka dan benci—teguh tak tergoyahkan, melampaui bahkan yang tertinggi.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that the highest reality (Brahman) is beyond the opposites of liking and disliking (iṣṭa/aniṣṭa). True insight—whether framed through Sāṅkhya’s discrimination or Yoga’s discipline—recognizes Brahman as unwavering, unaffected by preference, aversion, or worldly valuation.
In the Śānti Parva instruction, Bhīṣma continues advising King Yudhiṣṭhira on liberation-oriented wisdom. He cites the shared conclusion of Sāṅkhya and Yoga authorities: that Brahman is supremely transcendent and stable, and that liberation involves seeing beyond the mind’s habitual judgments of desirable and undesirable.