Shloka 523
पञ्चवर्णोत्पत्तिः — The Origin of the Five-Colored Fiery Being and Ritual-Disruptor Lineages
धार्मिकश्नापि भवति मोक्ष च लभते परम् | इस प्रकार वह वैराग्यको अपनाता और पापकर्मको छोड़ता जाता है। फिर सर्वथा धर्मात्मा हो जाता और अन्तमें परम मोक्ष प्राप्त कर लेता है
dhārmikaś cāpi bhavati mokṣaṃ ca labhate param |
The hunter said: “He becomes truly righteous, and in the end attains the supreme liberation. Thus, by adopting dispassion and steadily abandoning sinful actions, he grows into a wholly dharma-minded person and finally reaches the highest mokṣa.”
व्याध उवाच
Educational Q&A
Moral reform leads to spiritual freedom: by cultivating vairāgya (dispassion) and giving up pāpa-karma (sinful deeds), a person becomes firmly established in dharma and ultimately attains the highest mokṣa.
Vyādha is instructing the listener in practical spirituality: he describes an inner progression—detachment, cessation of wrongdoing, establishment in righteousness—culminating in liberation.