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Shloka 29

Yoga-kṛtya (योककृत्य) — Vyāsa on Sense-Restraint, Obstacles, and Brahman-Realization

कर्मजो<यं पृथग्भावो द्वन्द्ययुक्तोडपि देहिन: । तमात्मसिद्धिर्विज्ञानाज्जहाति पुरुषो बलात्‌

karmajo ’yaṃ pṛthagbhāvo dvandvayukto ’pi dehinaḥ | tam ātmasiddhir vijñānāj jahāti puruṣo balāt ||

ویاس نے کہا—جسم والے میں یہ جدائی کا احساس، اگرچہ سردی-گرمی جیسے دوئی کے جوڑوں سے وابستہ ہے، کرم سے پیدا ہوتا ہے۔ تَتّو-وِگیان کے ذریعے انسان اس دوئی کے بھوگ کو زور سے ترک کر دیتا ہے، اور علم ہی کے بل پر آتما-سِدھی—یعنی موکش—حاصل کر لیتا ہے۔

कर्मजःborn of action (karma-born)
कर्मजः:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootकर्मज
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
अयम्this
अयम्:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootइदम्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
पृथग्भावःseparateness; sense of difference
पृथग्भावः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootपृथग्भाव
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
द्वन्द्वयुक्तःconnected with pairs of opposites
द्वन्द्वयुक्तः:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootद्वन्द्वयुक्त
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
अपिeven; also
अपि:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअपि
देहिनःof the embodied being
देहिनः:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootदेहिन्
FormMasculine, Genitive, Singular
तम्that (it)
तम्:
Karma
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
FormMasculine, Accusative, Singular
आत्मसिद्धिःrealization/attainment of the Self
आत्मसिद्धिः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootआत्मसिद्धि
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
विज्ञानात्from/through discriminative knowledge
विज्ञानात्:
Apadana
TypeNoun
Rootविज्ञान
FormNeuter, Ablative, Singular
जहातिabandons
जहाति:
TypeVerb
Rootहा
FormPresent, Third, Singular, Parasmaipada
पुरुषःa person
पुरुषः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootपुरुष
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
बलात्by force; by the power (of it)
बलात्:
Karana
TypeNoun
Rootबल
FormNeuter, Ablative, Singular

व्यास उवाच

V
Vyāsa
P
puruṣa (the person)
D
dehin (the embodied being)
D
dvandva (pairs of opposites)
Ā
ātman (Self)

Educational Q&A

The verse teaches that the felt separateness and the compulsion to experience life through opposites (pleasure/pain, cold/heat) are karma-born. Liberation comes when discriminative knowledge (vijñāna) dissolves identification with the body and thereby ends bondage to duality.

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on liberation, Vyāsa explains a philosophical point: the embodied being’s dualistic experience is not the Self’s nature but a product of karma and identification. He states that knowledge enables one to abandon this duality and attain ātmasiddhi (mokṣa).