Shloka 7
Adhyāya 122 — Śruta-vṛtta-yukta Brāhmaṇa and the Ethics of Dāna
Maitreya–Vyāsa Saṃvāda
गुणभूतानि भूतानि तत्र त्वमुपभोक्ष्यसे । तत्र ते5हं विनेष्यामि ब्रह्मा त्वं यत्र वैष्यसि
guṇabhūtāni bhūtāni tatra tvam upabhokṣyase | tatra te 'haṃ vineṣyāmi brahmā tvaṃ yatra vaiṣyasi ||
Wika ni Vyāsa: “Doon, tatamasahin mo ang mga bagay na dinaranas, na kinikilalang mga pagbabago lamang ng limang dakilang elemento, at mananatili kang hindi nakakapit. Pagkaraan, lalapit ako sa iyo at ituturo ang kaalaman tungkol kay Brahman; at alinmang daigdig ang naisin mong puntahan, sa mismong kahariang iyon kita ihahatid.”
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
Sense-objects should be experienced without clinging, by seeing them as mere modifications of the elemental world; when dispassion matures, the teacher grants brahma-vidyā and guides the seeker toward the desired (and ultimately highest) destination.
Vyāsa promises the listener that after they live with non-attachment—treating worldly enjoyments as elemental transformations—he will personally return to instruct them in Brahman-knowledge and then lead them to the realm they choose.