Shloka 20
जनक–सुलभा संवादः
Janaka–Sulabhā Dialogue on Mokṣa and Non-attachment
निःसड्भरात्मानमासाद्य षड्विंशकमजं विभुम् | विभुस्त्यजति चाव्यक्तं यदा त्वेतद् विबुद्धाते
niḥsaḍbharātmānam āsādya ṣaḍviṁśakam ajaṁ vibhum | vibhus tyajati cāvyaktaṁ yadā tv etad vibuddhyate ||
Vasiṣṭha nói: “Khi người ta đạt đến tự ngã không còn mang gánh nặng sáu mặt và chứng tri nguyên lý thứ hai mươi sáu—bất sinh, trùm khắp—thì Thần linh tối thượng, do đã hiểu thấu điều này, liền xả bỏ cả cái ‘chưa hiển lộ’ (prakṛti).”
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation is described as the culmination of discriminative knowledge: realizing the unborn, all-pervading ‘twenty-sixth’ principle (beyond the manifest and even beyond the unmanifest prakṛti). With this awakening, attachment to the unmanifest source itself is relinquished, indicating transcendence of both gross and subtle nature.
In the Śānti Parva’s philosophical instruction, Vasiṣṭha is expounding a Sāṅkhya-like hierarchy of principles. He states that when the seeker attains the purified Self and understands the supreme principle, the Spirit no longer identifies with or depends upon the unmanifest (prakṛti), marking the transition from metaphysical analysis to final release.