Reconciliation of Action and Knowledge: Offering All Acts to Nārāyaṇa and the Hymn to the Yajña-Puruṣa
राजोवाच । कर्मणा प्राप्यते मोक्ष उताहो ज्ञानिना मुने । एतन्मे संशयं छिन्धि यदि मेऽनुग्रहः कृतः ॥ ५.४ ॥
rājovāca | karmaṇā prāpyate mokṣa utāho jñāninā mune | etan me saṁśayaṁ chindhi yadi me ’nugrahaḥ kṛtaḥ || 5.4 ||
Nhà vua thưa: “Bạch hiền giả, giải thoát (mokṣa) đạt được nhờ hành nghiệp (karma), hay đúng hơn nhờ bậc có trí tri (jñānin)? Xin chặt đứt mối nghi này của trẫm, nếu ngài đã ban ân.”
Rājā (the King)
It preserves a common Purāṇic pedagogical frame—royal inquiry to a sage—used to present debates on liberation (mokṣa) through action (karma) versus knowledge (jñāna), a theme shared across late-Vedic and classical Sanskrit literature.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the focus is philosophical (means to liberation) rather than sacred geography.
The verse foregrounds disciplined inquiry: a learner should directly ask for clarification and request the removal of doubt, treating knowledge as something to be carefully discriminated rather than assumed.
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