Shloka 125
Adhyāya 199: Karma–Jñāna Causality and the Nirguṇa Brahman
Manu’s Instruction
चतुर्भिलक्षणैहीनं तथा षड्भि: सषोडशै: । पुरुषं तमतिक्रम्प आकाशं प्रतिपद्यते
caturbhir lakṣaṇair hīnaṁ tathā ṣaḍbhiḥ saṣoḍaśaiḥ | puruṣaṁ tam atikramya ākāśaṁ pratipadyate ||
ວິຣູປະກ່າວວ່າ: ເມື່ອຂ້າມພົ້ນພຸຣຸສະ (Puruṣa) ນັ້ນແລ້ວ ລາວບັນລຸສະພາວະທີ່ຖືກປຽບດັ່ງອາກາດ. ທີ່ນັ້ນ ປະມານສີ່—ການຮູ້ໂດຍກົງ, ອະນຸມານ, ອຸປະມານ, ແລະ ຄຳພະຍານ (ສັບດະ)—ບໍ່ອາດເຂົ້າເຖິງ; ແລະຄື້ນຫົກ—ຫິວ, ຫາຍນ້ຳ, ໂສກ, ຫຼົງ, ແກ່, ແລະ ຕາຍ—ກໍບໍ່ເກີດຂຶ້ນ. ມັນຍັງເຫນືອອຸປະກອນສິບຫົກຂອງປະສົບການໃນຮ່າງກາຍ: ອິນທຣີຍະຮູ້ 5, ອິນທຣີຍະກະທຳ 5, ປຣານະ 5, ແລະ ມະນະ.
विरूप उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation is described as transcending the conditioned Puruṣa and realizing an unconditioned reality compared to space (ākāśa), where ordinary means of knowledge and the entire psycho-physical apparatus (senses, prāṇas, mind) do not operate, and where existential afflictions like hunger, grief, aging, and death do not arise.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction-oriented setting, Virūpa speaks a doctrinal verse outlining a hierarchy of realization: one goes beyond the Puruṣa and attains the ‘space-like’ ultimate, characterized negatively as beyond pramāṇas/definitions, beyond the six ‘waves’ of suffering, and beyond the sixteen instruments of embodied experience.