Shloka 8
Yājñavalkya on the Unity of Sāṃkhya and Yoga and the Marks of Meditative Composure
तदेव षोडशकल देहमव्यक्तसंज्ञकम् । ममायमिति मन्वानस्तत्रैव परिवर्तते,(मूल प्रकृति, दस इन्द्रियाँ--एक प्राण और चार प्रकारका अन्तःकरण-इन) सोलह कलाओंसे युक्त जो यह सूक्ष्मशरीर है, इसे “यह मेरा है” ऐसा माननेके कारण अज्ञानी जीव उसीमें भटकता रहता है
tad eva ṣoḍaśakala deham avyaktasaṃjñakam | mamāyam iti manvānas tatraiva parivartate ||
วสิษฐะกล่าวว่า “กายนั้นเอง—กายอันละเอียดซึ่งเรียกว่า ‘อวฺยกฺตะ’ (avyakta) —ประกอบด้วยส่วนสิบหก. ครั้นหลงคิดว่า ‘นี่เป็นของเรา’ ผู้เขลาจึงเวียนวนอยู่ในนั้นเอง ท่องไปซ้ำแล้วซ้ำเล่าในความยึดถือเดิม.”
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bondage persists because the jīva appropriates the subtle psycho-sensory complex as ‘mine.’ This possessive identification (mamatā) with the ‘unmanifest’-designated subtle body and its constituents keeps one revolving in saṃsāra; freedom requires dis-identification through right knowledge.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on liberation-oriented dharma, Vasiṣṭha explains to his listener that the ignorant being, by clinging to the subtle body (described as having sixteen parts) and claiming it as ‘mine,’ continues to wander within the cycle of embodied experience.