वेदव्यास-परम्परा तथा प्रणव-ब्रह्म-स्तुति
सांख्यज्ञानवतां निष्ठा गतिः शमदमात्मनाम् यत् तद् अव्यक्तम् अमृतं प्रवृत्तिर् ब्रह्म शाश्वतम्
sāṃkhyajñānavatāṃ niṣṭhā gatiḥ śamadamātmanām yat tad avyaktam amṛtaṃ pravṛttir brahma śāśvatam
सांख्यज्ञानयुक्तांची निष्ठा, शम-दमाने संयत आत्म्यांची परम गती—तेच अव्यक्त, अमृत, सर्व प्रकटतेची प्रवृत्तिभूमी, शाश्वत ब्रह्म आहे।
Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya)
This verse presents Avyakta as the deathless, eternal Brahman—the ultimate goal of realized knowledge and disciplined spiritual life, and the ground from which manifestation proceeds.
He links realization with sāṅkhya-jñāna (discriminative insight) and inner discipline—śama (tranquility) and dama (self-restraint)—which together lead to the final gati, the supreme refuge.
In the Vishnu Purana’s Vaishnava Vedānta framing, the eternal Brahman described here is ultimately identified with Vishnu as the Supreme Reality—immortal, foundational, and the source of cosmic manifestation.