Shloka 25
Nārada’s Darśana of Viśvarūpa Nārāyaṇa and the Caturmūrti Doctrine (नारदस्य नारायणदर्शनं चतुर्मूर्तिविचारश्च)
अनेन क्रमयोगेन बहुजातिषु कर्मणाम् । हित्वा शुभाशुभं॑ कर्म मोक्षो नामेह लभ्यते
anena kramayogena bahujātiṣu karmaṇām | hitvā śubhāśubhaṃ karma mokṣo nāmeha labhyate ||
Janaka berkata: “Dengan jalan latihan berdisiplin ini—dilakukan secara berperingkat melalui pelbagai jenis perbuatan merentas banyak kelahiran—seseorang memperoleh apa yang disebut pembebasan di sini, dengan meninggalkan keterikatan pada perbuatan ‘baik’ mahupun ‘buruk’.”
जनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation is attained through a gradual discipline (krama-yoga) in which one continues to act, yet relinquishes clinging to the moral/ritual polarity of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ actions—i.e., abandoning possessiveness and self-centered attachment to results and identity built on merit or sin.
King Janaka is speaking in a didactic setting within the Śānti Parva, presenting a philosophical instruction: over many lives of practice and duty, one matures into detachment, and through that renunciation of attachment to action’s dualities, one reaches mokṣa.