Shloka 78
नारद–शुक संवादः
Impermanence, Svabhāva, and Śuka’s Resolve for Yoga
जब द्विज इस बातको समझ लेता है कि मैं अन्य हूँ और यह प्राकृत शरीर अथवा अनात्म-जगत् मुझसे सर्वथा भिन्न है, तब वह प्रकृतिके संसर्गसे रहित हो छब्बीसवें तत्त्व परमात्माका साक्षात्कार कर लेता है ।।
anyaśṣu rājann avaras tathānyaḥ pañcaviṁśakaḥ | tatsthānāc cānupaśyanti eka eveti sādhavaḥ ||
ヤージュニャヴァルキヤは言った。「王よ、多くの原理のうちには下位のものがあり、また別に—第二十五と数えられる—異なる原理がある。その高き原理の立場から、賢者は自己がただ一つであると観る。二度生まれた者が真に『我はこれにあらず』と悟り、この自然の身体と非我の世界が自分と全く別であると知るとき、彼はプラクリティとの接触を離れ、自然の諸要素を超えた最高の自己を直証する。」
याज़्ञवल्क्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Discriminative knowledge: the seeker must discern the Self (Puruṣa/Ātman, the ‘twenty-fifth principle’) as wholly distinct from body and the non-self world. With this viveka, one becomes disentangled from Prakṛti and attains direct realization of the supreme Self, understood as one and the same in all.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on liberation, the sage Yājñavalkya addresses a king and explains a Sāṅkhya-like hierarchy of principles: a lower set associated with nature and a higher, distinct principle (the 25th). He states that the wise, standing in that higher standpoint, perceive the oneness of the Self and thereby move toward liberation.