Shloka 226
Adhyāya 262: Śabda-brahman, Para-brahman, and the Ethics of Tyāga
Kapila–Syūmaraśmi Saṃvāda
अस्ति नस्तत्त्वतो भूय इति प्राज्ञस्त्ववेक्षते । हममेंसे बहुत लोग ऐसे हैं
asti nas tattvato bhūya iti prājñas tv avekṣate |
賢者は省みて言う。「真実において、われらが自分をそうだと思いなすものより、さらに大いなるものがある。」たとえ我らの多くがダルマを拠り所として生き、ダルマに幸福を見いだし、なすべきこととなすべからざることを定め終えていようとも、知者はなお、われらの限られた自己観を超えて、遍く在り、万有の自己として住する、はるかに広大で至高の実在を見抜くのである。
चुलाधार उवाच
Educational Q&A
Ethical life grounded in dharma is valuable, but the wise discern an even greater truth: beyond our limited sense of ‘who we are’ stands the supreme, all-pervading Reality (Paramātman), present as the inner Self of all. True wisdom is to see that larger Self behind and within all dharmic action.
Culādhāra is speaking in the Śānti Parva’s instructional dialogue, shifting the focus from merely determining duties and prohibitions to contemplative insight. He emphasizes the perspective of the knower who sees the universal Self beyond individual identity and beyond even the satisfaction of living by dharma alone.