Shloka 57
Brahmā’s Instruction on Brahmacarya, Vānaprastha, and the Aliṅga Path
Ethics of Non-attachment
ध्यायेदेकान्तमास्थाय मुच्यते5थ निराश्रय: । निर्मुक्त: सर्वसड्रेभ्यो वायुराकाशगो यथा
dhyāyed ekāntam āsthāya mucyate 'tha nirāśrayaḥ | nirmuktaḥ sarvasaṅgebhyo vāyur ākāśago yathā ||
风神伐由说道：“当依止独处而修观；继而无所依凭，便得解脱。离一切执著——如风行于旷空——通达真实者于命终之际，证得解脱，抵达至上之我。”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation is gained through solitary, focused meditation grounded in true knowledge, culminating in complete detachment from all worldly ties—becoming free and unobstructed like wind moving through space.
Vāyudeva is instructing about the final-stage discipline of a tattva-vettā (knower of reality): at the end of life, withdrawing into solitude and meditating on the Supreme, one becomes nirāśraya (without dependence) and nirmukta (fully disentangled), thereby attaining mokṣa.