Shloka 76
नारद–शुक संवादः
Impermanence, Svabhāva, and Śuka’s Resolve for Yoga
स निमज्जति कालस्य यदैकत्वं न बुध्यते । उनन््मज्जति हि कालस्य समत्वेनाभिसंवृत:
sa nimajjati kālasya yadaikatvaṁ na budhyate | unmajjati hi kālasya samatvenābhisaṁvṛtaḥ ||
ヤージュニャヴァルキヤは言った。至上の自己との一如に目覚めぬかぎり、人は時の力に沈む。だが平等心に包まれるとき、時を超えて浮上する。教えはこうである。束縛は同一視の誤りと執着によって保たれ、解脱は揺るがぬ平等の見と、最高実在との一体の認知によって到来する。
याज़्ञवल्क्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Failure to realize one’s unity with the Supreme leads to being overwhelmed by Time (mortality, change, suffering). Equanimity (samatva) grounded in right knowledge enables one to transcend Time’s sway.
In a didactic discourse within the Śānti Parva, Yājñavalkya explains the spiritual condition of the jīva: ignorance of oneness causes ‘submergence’ in kāla, while the cultivation of even-minded wisdom brings ‘emergence’—a metaphor for liberation.