Shloka 163
अज्ञान–लोभयोः परस्परहेतुत्वम्
Mutual Causality of Ignorance and Greed
त्यजतां जीवितं श्रेयो निवृत्ते पुण्यपापके । इस संसारके सम्पूर्ण प्राणियोंमें जब दुःख ही नहीं है
śaunaka uvāca | tyajatāṃ jīvitaṃ śreyo nivṛtte puṇya-pāpake |
シャウナカは言った。「功徳と罪とがともに鎮まり尽きた者にとっては、命さえも捨て去る離欲が、より高き善とされる。身を受けた衆生の世において、苦の影なくして楽は得られない。楽と苦とは、プラクリティに縛られた生類の自然の相であり、触れ合いと交わりの過失を引き受けつつ、それに従って動く。だが、『我がもの』という執着と我慢とともに一切を捨て、善悪の衝動がすでに止んだ者—その人の生そのものが吉祥となり、安穏をもたらす。」
शौनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
True welfare (śreyas) lies in detachment: when ego and possessiveness are abandoned and the dualities of merit and sin no longer bind, one’s life becomes intrinsically auspicious; pleasure and pain are seen as natural to embodied existence under prakṛti.
In the didactic setting of Śānti Parva, Śaunaka speaks a reflective teaching on the inevitability of pleasure and pain for embodied beings and praises the state of renunciation in which both puṇya and pāpa have ceased to operate.