Shloka 25
जनक–सुलभा संवादः
Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment
इसी प्रकार प्रकृति और पुरुषकी एकता और अनेकताको समझना चाहिये। अव्यक्त प्रकृतिका पुरुषसे जो नित्य भेद है, उसके यथार्थज्ञानसे पुरुष उसके बन्धनसे मुक्त हो जाता है। इसीको मोक्ष कहा गया है ।।
prajñāpayanti—prakṛti-puruṣayoḥ aikyaṃ nānātvam caiva yathāvat boddhavyam | avyaktāyāḥ prakṛteḥ puruṣeṇa saha yo nitya-bhedaḥ, tasya tattva-jñānāt puruṣaḥ tasyā bandhanāt pramucyate; etad eva mokṣa iti || pañcaviṃśatikasyāsya yo ’yaṃ deheṣu vartate | eṣa mokṣayitavya iti prāhur avyaktagocarāt ||
ヴァシシュタは言った。「プラクリティ（Prakṛti）とプルシャ（Puruṣa）について、その一体性と多様性の双方を正しく理解せねばならぬ。不顕のプラクリティ（avyakta Prakṛti）がプルシャと永遠に別であるという真知が生ずるとき、プルシャは彼女の束縛から解き放たれる――これが解脱（mokṣa）と呼ばれる。賢者たちは、諸身に在る内在のプルシャ（antaryāmin）、すなわち第二十五原理は、不顕の働きによる縛り――マハト（Mahat）などの展開物――から解放されねばならぬ、と説く。」
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation comes from discriminative knowledge: recognizing the eternal distinction between the conscious Puruṣa (the 25th tattva, indwelling witness) and the unmanifest Prakṛti along with her evolutes (such as Mahat). When this distinction is known, the Puruṣa is no longer bound by Prakṛti’s workings.
In Śānti Parva’s philosophical instruction, Vasiṣṭha is explaining a Sāṃkhya-style analysis of reality: how the self (Puruṣa) becomes entangled with Prakṛti’s evolutes and how, through right understanding of their relation (apparent unity yet real difference), one attains mokṣa.