Mahabharata — Ashvamedhika Parva, Shloka 36
Mind as Charioteer; Kṣetrajña, Tapas, and Dhyāna-Yoga
Adhyātma-Upadeśa
तस्माजउज्ञानेन शुद्धेन मुच्यते सर्वकिल्बिषै: । निश्चयको साक्षात् करनेवाले वृद्ध लोग कहते हैं कि "ज्ञान ही परम कल्याणका साधन है।” इसलिये परम शुद्ध ज्ञानके द्वारा ही मनुष्य सब पापोंसे छूट जाता है
tasmāj jñānena śuddhena mucyate sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ | niścayakaḥ sākṣāt kartṛṇo vṛddhāḥ prāhur yathā—jñānam eva parama-kalyāṇasya sādhanam iti || bīja-dharmas tv ahaṅkāraḥ prasavaś ca punaḥ punaḥ | bīja-prasava-dharmāṇi mahā-bhūtāni pañca vai ||
伐由说道：“因此，凭借清净之智，人得以从一切罪垢中解脱。那些具直接确证的长老宣示：唯有知识，乃通向至善之道。我执之原理（ahaṅkāra）以种子之性为因，并一次又一次转化为果。同样，五大既具因性亦具果性；由于它们生出声音等诸感官对象，故被称为‘含藏种子者’。”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
Pure, discriminative knowledge is presented as the direct means to the highest good, because it removes all moral and spiritual defilements; ignorance-driven identification (ahaṅkāra) is the recurring seed of bondage.
Vāyudeva delivers a doctrinal instruction: he links ethical purification to liberating knowledge and then explains a Sāṅkhya-style causal chain in which ahaṅkāra and the five great elements function as both causes and effects, generating the field of sense-experience.