Shloka 15
Nārāyaṇasya Guhya-nāmāni Niruktāni (Etymologies of Nārāyaṇa’s Secret Epithets) / नारायणस्य गुह्यनामानि निरुक्तानि
इन्द्रियैरिन्द्रियार्थान् यश्चरत्यात्मवशैरिह । असज्जमान: शान्तात्मा निर्विकार: समाहित:
indriyair indriyārthān yaś caraty ātmavaśair iha | asajjamānaḥ śāntātmā nirvikāraḥ samāhitaḥ ||
ナーラダは言った。「自己（アートマン）の統御のもとに諸根を従わせ、この世において感官の対象を執着なく経験する者—内なる心が静まり、動ぜず、堅く収斂している者—は、自己のごとく見える身体と諸根のただ中に住みながらも、それらと同一化せず、別なるものとしてとどまる。その人は解脱しており、ほどなく最高の善に到達する。」
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
True freedom is not the absence of sensory experience but the absence of attachment: when the senses are governed by the Self, one can engage with sense-objects without clinging. Such steadiness—calm (śāntātmā), unmodified (nirvikāra), and concentrated (samāhita)—marks liberation and leads swiftly to the highest good.
Within the Śānti Parva’s instruction on peace and liberation, Nārada is speaking as a teacher, defining the liberated person. He describes how a wise individual lives amid body and senses yet remains inwardly separate from identification with them, thereby attaining mokṣa-oriented welfare.