Shloka 34
अव्यक्त–प्रकृति–इन्द्रियविचारः
The Unmanifest, Prakṛtis, and the Sense-Complex
यथा समुद्रमभित: संश्रिता: सरितो5परा: । तथाद्या प्रकृतियोगाद्भिसंश्रियते सदा
yathā samudram abhitaḥ saṁśritāḥ sarito 'parāḥ | tathādyā prakṛti-yogād bhi-saṁśriyate sadā ||
Sinabi ni Parāśara: “Gaya ng maraming ilog na mula sa iba’t ibang panig ay umaagos at nagsasanib sa karagatan, gayon din ang isip—na napasailalim sa disiplina sa pamamagitan ng yoga—ay nagpapahinga magpakailanman sa sinaunang Ugat na Kalikasan (prakṛti), at nawawala ang hiwalay nitong agos.”
पराशर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that through yoga (disciplined inner practice), the mind’s restless movements can be mastered and made to dissolve into its source—here described as the primordial prakṛti—just as rivers lose their separate identity when they enter the ocean.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on liberation-oriented dharma, the sage Parāśara is explaining contemplative doctrine using a natural simile: many rivers converging into the sea illustrates the yogin’s mind converging into the fundamental ground of existence.