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जनकस्य मोक्षमार्गप्रश्नः तथा पञ्चशिखोपदेश-प्रस्तावः | Janaka’s Path to Liberation: Prelude to Pañcaśikha’s Instruction
ऑपनआक्रात [छ। अ्--क्ाजण एकादशाधिकद्वधिशततमो<्ध्याय: संसारचक्र और जीवात्माकी स्थितिका वर्णन गुरुर्वाच चतुर्विधानि भूतानि स्थावराणि चराणि च । अव्यक्तप्रभवान्याहुरव्यक्तनिधनानि च । अव्यक्तलक्षणं विद्यादव्यक्तात्मात्मकं मन:
bhīṣma uvāca | guruḥ uvāca—caturvidhāni bhūtāni sthāvarāṇi carāṇi ca | avyaktaprabhavāny āhur avyaktanidhanāni ca | avyaktalakṣaṇaṃ vidyād avyaktātmātmakam manaḥ |
ಭೀಷ್ಮನು ಹೇಳಿದನು—ಗುರುವು ಹೇಳಿದನು—“ವತ್ಸಾ! ಸ್ಥಾವರ ಮತ್ತು ಚರ—ಭೂತಗಳು ನಾಲ್ಕು ವಿಧ. ಅವು ಅವ್ಯಕ್ತದಿಂದ ಉದ್ಭವಿಸಿ ಅವ್ಯಕ್ತದಲ್ಲೇ ಲಯವಾಗುತ್ತವೆ. ವ್ಯಕ್ತ ಲಕ್ಷಣವಿಲ್ಲದುದನ್ನು ‘ಅವ್ಯಕ್ತ’ವೆಂದು ತಿಳಿಯಬೇಕು. ಮನಸ್ಸೂ ಅವ್ಯಕ್ತಸ್ವಭಾವದದು, ತ್ರಿಗುಣಾತ್ಮಕ.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
All beings—whether immobile or mobile—originate from the Unmanifest (avyakta) and ultimately dissolve back into it; the mind itself is also rooted in that unmanifest, tri-guṇa nature. The teaching frames existence as a cyclical emergence and reabsorption, encouraging discernment of the unmanifest ground behind changing forms.
Within Bhīṣma’s instruction in the Śānti Parva, a teacher addresses a disciple and begins a metaphysical explanation of saṃsāra: classification of beings, their source and end in the avyakta, and the status of mind as tri-guṇa and akin to the unmanifest principle.