Shloka 7
Adhyaya 16 — The Son’s Counsel on Renunciation and the Anasuya–Mandavya Episode: The Suspension of Sunrise and the Power of Pativrata
पितावाच वत्स योगं ममाचक्ष्व मुक्तिहेतुमतः परम् ।
येन भूतैः पुनर्भूतो नेदृगः खमवाप्नुयाम् ॥
pitā vāca vatsa yogaṃ mamācakṣva mukti-hetum ataḥ param |
yena bhūtaiḥ punar-bhūto nedṛgaḥ kham avāpnuyām ||
Sinabi ng ama: “Minamahal kong anak, ituro mo sa akin ang yogang iyon, ang pinakamataas na sanhi ng paglaya, upang—kahit ako’y muling mapabilang sa mga nilalang—hindi ko na muling masalubong ang ganitong kapalarang dalamhati sa langit (ng pag-iral).”
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FAQs
Humility and urgency are prerequisites: the father recognizes the insufficiency of ordinary life and explicitly seeks the ‘highest’ liberating means.
Dialogue-based teaching (upadeśa) rather than cosmological narration; a soteriological interlude typical of Purāṇic encyclopedism.
The ‘sky’ can be read as the vast field of saṃsāra; the plea is to transcend the subtle ‘space’ in which karmic impressions roam and precipitate rebirth.