Shloka 5
Yājñavalkya on the Unity of Sāṃkhya and Yoga and the Marks of Meditative Composure
कलायां जायते5जसंं पुन: पुनरबुद्धिमान् । धाम तस्योपयुञ्जन्ति भूय एवोपजायते
kalāyāṃ jāyate jīvaḥ punaḥ punaḥ abuddhimān | dhāma tasyopayuñjanti bhūya evopajāyate ||
Wika ni Vasiṣṭha: Ang sarili na mangmang ay muling isinisilang, paulit-ulit, sa loob ng mismong mga kalā na iyon. Sapagkat ginagawa niya silang tahanan at sandigan, siya’y muling dumarating sa kapanganakan—nang sunod-sunod—dahil patuloy niyang kinakapitan ang mga iyon bilang pahingahan.
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
So long as the jīva lacks discernment (abuddhimān) and takes conditioned ‘kalās’ as its true abode, it remains bound to saṃsāra and is compelled to be born repeatedly. The ethical thrust is to cultivate right understanding and non-clinging, shifting one’s refuge away from transient supports.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction, Vasiṣṭha is explaining the mechanism of repeated birth: the individual self, due to ignorance, repeatedly settles into the same limited bases (kalās) and therefore re-arises again and again, treating those very conditions as its support.