Shloka 57
Brahmā’s Instruction on Brahmacarya, Vānaprastha, and the Aliṅga Path
Ethics of Non-attachment
ध्यायेदेकान्तमास्थाय मुच्यते5थ निराश्रय: । निर्मुक्त: सर्वसड्रेभ्यो वायुराकाशगो यथा
dhyāyed ekāntam āsthāya mucyate 'tha nirāśrayaḥ | nirmuktaḥ sarvasaṅgebhyo vāyur ākāśago yathā ||
Wika ni Vāyu-deva: “Manahan sa pag-iisa at magnilay; saka, kapag naging walang inaasahang sandigan, siya’y napapalaya. Malaya sa lahat ng pagkapit—gaya ng hanging dumaraan sa maluwang na langit—ang nakakabatid ng katotohanan, sa dulo ng buhay, ay nakakamit ang kalayaan at nakararating sa Kataas-taasang Sarili.”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation is gained through solitary, focused meditation grounded in true knowledge, culminating in complete detachment from all worldly ties—becoming free and unobstructed like wind moving through space.
Vāyudeva is instructing about the final-stage discipline of a tattva-vettā (knower of reality): at the end of life, withdrawing into solitude and meditating on the Supreme, one becomes nirāśraya (without dependence) and nirmukta (fully disentangled), thereby attaining mokṣa.