Shloka 80
Adhyātma–Adhibhūta–Adhidaivata Correspondences and the Triguṇa Lakṣaṇas (Śānti-parva 301)
युधिषछिर उवाच स्थानमुत्तममासाद्य भगवन्तं स्थिरव्रता: । आजन्ममरणं वा ते स्मरन्त्युत न वानघ
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca
sthānam uttamam āsādya bhagavantaṃ sthiravratāḥ |
ājanma-maraṇaṃ vā te smaranty uta na vānagha ||
युधिष्ठिर उवाच स्थानमुत्तममासाद्य भगवन्तं स्थिरव्रताः । आजन्ममरणं वा ते स्मरन्त्युत न वानघ ॥
युधिषछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames a philosophical inquiry central to mokṣa-doctrine: whether realization of the supreme state and attainment of the Lord preserves or dissolves personal, biographical memory (from birth to death). It probes the nature of liberated consciousness—individual recollection versus transcendence of embodied identity.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction-setting, Yudhiṣṭhira respectfully questions the elder teacher (addressed as “blameless”) about the post-liberation condition of disciplined sages: after attaining the highest state and the Lord, do they still remember their worldly life-history or not?