Shloka 125
Adhyāya 199: Karma–Jñāna Causality and the Nirguṇa Brahman
Manu’s Instruction
चतुर्भिलक्षणैहीनं तथा षड्भि: सषोडशै: । पुरुषं तमतिक्रम्प आकाशं प्रतिपद्यते
caturbhir lakṣaṇair hīnaṁ tathā ṣaḍbhiḥ saṣoḍaśaiḥ | puruṣaṁ tam atikramya ākāśaṁ pratipadyate ||
ヴィルーパは言った。かのプルシャ（Puruṣa）を超えて、人は虚空に譬えられる実在へと到る。そこには、四つの相と認識手段—直接知覚・推理・類推・聖言（śabda）—は及ばず、また六つの波—飢え・渇き・憂い・迷い・老い・死—も起こらない。さらにそれは、具身の経験を成り立たせる十六の器—五つの知覚器官、五つの行為器官、五つのプラーナ、そして心—をも超越している。
विरूप उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation is described as transcending the conditioned Puruṣa and realizing an unconditioned reality compared to space (ākāśa), where ordinary means of knowledge and the entire psycho-physical apparatus (senses, prāṇas, mind) do not operate, and where existential afflictions like hunger, grief, aging, and death do not arise.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction-oriented setting, Virūpa speaks a doctrinal verse outlining a hierarchy of realization: one goes beyond the Puruṣa and attains the ‘space-like’ ultimate, characterized negatively as beyond pramāṇas/definitions, beyond the six ‘waves’ of suffering, and beyond the sixteen instruments of embodied experience.