Shloka 4
अन्तर्वन-विद्यारण्योपमा
The Allegory of the Inner Forest of Knowledge
ब्राह्मण उवाच नैतदस्ति पृथग्भाव: किंचिदन््यत् ततः सुखम् | नैतदस्त्यपृथग्भाव: किंचिद् दुःखतरं ततः,ब्राह्मणने कहा--प्रिये! उस वनमें न भेद है न अभेद, वह इन दोनोंसे अतीत है। वहाँ लौकिक सुख और दु:ख दोनोंका अभाव है
brāhmaṇa uvāca: naitad asti pṛthagbhāvaḥ kiṃcid anyat tataḥ sukham | naitad asty apṛthagbhāvaḥ kiṃcid duḥkhataraṃ tataḥ ||
婆羅門は言った。「そこには分離し分割された状態はない—そしてそれを超える別の幸福もない。そこにはまた不分離という状態もない—そしてそれを上回る苦しみもない。」すなわち彼は、差別と無差別という常の対立を超え、世俗の快苦が当てはまらぬ超越の境地を示している。
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse critiques taking either ‘difference’ (pṛthagbhāva) or ‘non-difference’ (apṛthagbhāva) as the final truth. It gestures toward a reality beyond conceptual extremes, where ordinary categories—and thus worldly pleasure and pain—lose their hold.
A Brahmin speaker is instructing his listener in a reflective, philosophical mode, using paired opposites (difference/non-difference; happiness/suffering) to point toward a transcendent state that cannot be captured by common metaphysical labels.