Mahabharata — Udyoga Parva, Shloka 26
Sanatsujāta on the Imperceptible Eternal Light (यत्तच्छुक्रं महज्ज्योतिः)
इस प्रकार जो समस्त भूतोंमें परमात्माको निरन्तर देखता है, वह ऐसी दृष्टि प्राप्त होनेके अनन्तर अन्यान्य विषयभोगोंमें आसक्त मनुष्योंके लिये क्या शोक करे? ।।
yaḥ sarvabhūteṣu paramātmānaṁ nirantaraṁ paśyati, sa tādṛśīṁ dṛṣṭiṁ prāpya viṣayabhogeṣu āsaktān manuṣyān prati kiṁ śocet? yathodapāne mahati sarvataḥ samplutodake, evaṁ sarveṣu vedeṣu ātmānam anujānataḥ.
Ang sinumang patuloy na nakakikita sa Kataas-taasang Sarili sa lahat ng nilalang—pagkaraang makamtan ang gayong paningin—ano pa ang ikalulungkot niya para sa mga taong ang isip ay nakakapit sa paglasap ng mga bagay na lumilipas? Kung paanong ang munting balon ay nawawalan ng halaga kapag may malawak na tubig na umaapaw sa lahat ng dako, gayon din, para sa tunay na nakakakilala sa Sarili, ang maraming aral ng mga Veda ay wari’y napapaloob at natutupad na.
सनत्सुजात उवाच
Educational Q&A
Steady perception of the Supreme Self in all beings dissolves grief and weakens attachment to sense-enjoyments; for the knower of the Self, the essential purpose of Vedic instruction is already realized, like a well rendered unnecessary by abundant water.
Sanatsujāta is instructing (in the Udyoga Parva dialogue) on liberation-oriented wisdom: he contrasts the Self-knower’s unshaken clarity with the ordinary person’s fixation on transient pleasures, using the well-versus-flood metaphor to show how comprehensive Self-knowledge subsumes ritual and textual multiplicity.