Shloka 1
Mokṣa-dharma Yoga-Upadeśa: Equanimity, Sense-Restraint, and Vision of the Ātman (आत्मदर्शन-योगोपदेशः)
प्याज बछ। जज: एकोनविशो< ध्याय: गुरु-शिष्यके संवादमें मोक्षप्राप्तिके उपायका वर्णन ब्राह्मण उवाच यः स्यादेकायने लीनस्तूष्णीं किंचिदचिन्तयन् । पूर्व पूर्व परित्यज्य स तीर्णो बन्धनाद् भवेत्
brāhmaṇa uvāca | yaḥ syād ekāyane līnas tūṣṇīṁ kiñcid acintayan | pūrvaṁ pūrvaṁ parityajya sa tīrṇo bandhanād bhavet |
婆罗门说道：“噫，迦叶波啊！若有人沉入唯一归依处——至上我——寂然无言，不起一念；并且循序渐进，舍弃对先前诸状态（具身自我的层层形态）的认同；此人便能渡越系缚，脱离世间枷锁而得自由。”
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation is attained by inward absorption in the single supreme ground (ekāyana), maintaining silence and freedom from discursive thought, and progressively abandoning identification with successive layers of embodied selfhood; thus one ‘crosses’ beyond bondage.
In a guru–śiṣya style instruction, a Brahmin addresses Kāśyapa and states the practical means to mokṣa: quietude, non-conceptual stillness, and stepwise renunciation of prior identifications, culminating in absorption in the Supreme Self.