Shloka 11
कर्मविद्या-भेदः
Karma–Vidyā Distinction: Paths of Bondage and Release
वायोरपि गुणं स्पर्शमाकाशं ग्रसते यदा । प्रशाम्यति तदा वायु: खं तु तिषछतति नादवत्
vāyor api guṇaṃ sparśam ākāśaṃ grasate yadā | praśāmyati tadā vāyuḥ khaṃ tu tiṣṭhati nādavat ||
毗耶娑阐明诸元素次第回收：“当虚空（ākāśa）吞摄连同风（vāyu）之‘触’（sparśa）这一性质时，风便寂息，融入虚空。于是唯有虚空独存，以声（nāda）为相。”
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches a hierarchy of subtlety: the air-element, defined by touch, subsides when its quality is absorbed into space, leaving space characterized by sound. Ethically and spiritually, it models how one should let grosser impulses and sensory engagements quiet down into subtler awareness, cultivating detachment and calm.
Vyāsa is describing a cosmological/psychological process of dissolution (laya): the quality of touch associated with wind is taken up by space; wind becomes tranquil and merges into space; thereafter space remains alone with its defining quality, sound.