Shloka 6
मृत्युकारणप्रश्नः / Inquiry into the Cause and Designation of Death
इत्येवं हृदयग्रन्थिं बुद्धिचिन्तामयं दूढम् । अनित्यं सुखमासीत अशोचंश्छिन्नसंशय:
ity evaṁ hṛdaya-granthiṁ buddhi-cintā-mayaṁ dūḍham | anityaṁ sukham āsīta aśocañ chinna-saṁśayaḥ ||
Wika ni Vyāsa: “Kaya, matapos putulin ang buhol ng puso—na mahigpit na iginapos ng nakaugaliang pag-iisip ng isip at talino—dapat manahan sa ligayang hindi nakasalalay sa lumilipas, maging walang dalamhati, putol ang lahat ng pag-aalinlangan, at matatag na mamahinga sa Sarili.”
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches inner liberation: by cutting the ‘knot of the heart’—the deep-seated bondage of ignorance and attachment reinforced by mental and intellectual rumination—one becomes free from grief and doubt and abides steadily in Self-grounded peace.
Vyāsa continues an instruction in the Śānti Parva’s mokṣa-oriented discourse, summarizing the practical outcome of the prior teaching: the seeker should sever the inner bondage and thereby attain a stable, sorrowless, doubtless state of abiding in the highest reality.