Shloka 50
तृष्णाक्षय-उपदेशः
Instruction on the Cessation of Craving
ज्ञानं प्लावयते सर्व यो ज्ञान हानुवर्तते । ज्ञानादपेत्य या वृत्ति: सा विनाशयति प्रजा:
jñānaṁ plāvayate sarvaṁ yo jñānam anuvartate | jñānād apetyā yā vṛttiḥ sā vināśayati prajāḥ ||
人が真に智慧に従うなら、智慧は舟となって世の束縛のあらゆる絡みを安全に渡らせる。だが智慧を離れた行いの道は、衆生を破滅へと追いやり、再び生死の輪へと投げ戻す。
कपिल उवाच
Educational Q&A
Kapila teaches that jñāna—true liberating knowledge—functions like a raft: one who follows it is carried beyond worldly bondage, while conduct divorced from knowledge leads to spiritual and existential ruin by perpetuating saṁsāra.
In Śānti Parva’s didactic discourse, Kapila is instructing about the supremacy of knowledge over mere action: adherence to knowledge liberates, whereas ignorant activity binds beings to repeated birth and death.