Shloka 38
Nārada’s Darśana of Viśvarūpa Nārāyaṇa and the Caturmūrti Doctrine (नारदस्य नारायणदर्शनं चतुर्मूर्तिविचारश्च)
शीतमुष्णं तथैवार्थमनर्थ प्रियमप्रियम् । जीवितं मरणं चैव ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा
śītam uṣṇaṁ tathaivārtham anarthaṁ priyam apriyam | jīvitaṁ maraṇaṁ caiva brahma sampadyate tadā ||
ジャナカ王は言った。「人が寒と暑とを等しく見、得と失とを等しく見、快と不快とを等しく見、さらには生と死とをも同じ揺るぎない眼差しで観ずるとき、その者はブラフマンそのものの境地に到る。外の移ろいではなく、内なる平等心に根ざした自由である。」
जनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches samatva (equanimity): when one’s mind remains even toward opposites—comfort and discomfort, success and failure, like and dislike, even life and death—one becomes fit for Brahman-realization, because attachment and aversion no longer govern perception or action.
In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on liberation and inner peace, King Janaka speaks as a teacher-figure, describing the mark of spiritual maturity: an equal gaze toward all dualities, culminating in the attainment of Brahman.