Shloka 23
Adhyāya 290: Sāṃkhya-vidhi, Deha-doṣa, Guṇa-vicāra, and Mokṣa-gati
Bhīṣma–Yudhiṣṭhira Dialogue
सुखदु:खे समाधाय पुमानन्येन गच्छति । अन्येनैव जन: सर्व: संगतो यश्न पार्थिव:
sukha-duḥkhe samādhāya pumān anyena gacchati | anyenaiva janaḥ sarvaḥ saṅgato yac ca pārthivaḥ ||
सुख-दुःख अंतःकरणात सामावून घेऊन विवेकी पुरुष दुसऱ्या मार्गाने—मोक्षाकडे नेणाऱ्या पथाने—चालतो. पण हे राजन्, आसक्तीत गुंतलेले लोक आणि त्यांचे सांसारिक संबंध-धन इत्यादींसह सर्वजण दुसऱ्याच मार्गाने जातात; म्हणून ते जन्म-मरणाच्या फेर्यात पडतात.
पराशर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse contrasts two trajectories: the wise person integrates pleasure and pain with inner steadiness and follows the liberating path, while those bound by attachment to worldly ties and possessions follow a different course that keeps them within saṃsāra (repeated birth and death).
Parāśara is instructing a king, drawing a moral distinction between the renunciant/discerning way of life oriented to mokṣa and the common worldly life driven by attachment, emphasizing the karmic consequence of continued rebirth.