Shloka 19

Bhūta-guṇa-saṃkhyāna

Enumeration of the Properties of the Elements and Cognitive Faculties

Devanagari script

त्यक्त्वा पूर्वकृतं कर्म रतिर्यस्थ सदा55त्मनि । सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्य गुणवर्गेष्वसज्जत:

Transliteration

tyaktvā pūrvakṛtaṃ karma ratir yasya sadātmani | sarvabhūtātmabhūtasya guṇavargeṣv asajjataḥ ||

Translation

毗耶娑说：凡能舍弃往昔所作之业的余势，而恒常将爱恋安住于至上之我者，便仿佛成为一切众生之我；在诸感官境界与诸德性（guṇa）的群类之中，亦永不堕于执著。

Word by Word

• त्यक्त्वा: having abandoned
• त्यक्त्वा: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: त्यज्
• Form: क्त्वा-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (gerund), कर्तरि

• पूर्वकृतम्: previously done
• पूर्वकृतम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पूर्वकृत
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• कर्म: action, deed
• कर्म: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: कर्मन्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• रतिः: attachment, love
• रतिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: रति
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• यस्य: of whom, whose
• यस्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Singular

• सदा: always
• सदा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सदा

• आत्मनि: in the Self
• आत्मनि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: आत्मन्
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्य: of one who has become the Self of all beings
• सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्वभूतात्मभूत
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• गुणवर्गेषु: among groups of qualities/objects (sense-objects)
• गुणवर्गेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: गुणवर्ग
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Plural

• असज्जतः: of one who is not attached
• असज्जतः: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: असज्जत्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular, नञ् + सज्जत् (सज्ज् धातोः शतृ-प्रत्ययान्त वर्तमानकृदन्त)

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vyāsa

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Renounce the binding force of past actions and keep one’s love fixed on the Self; then one realizes unity with all beings and remains unattached to the guṇa-made world of objects and experiences.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on liberation and inner peace, Vyāsa states a mark of the realized person: abandoning the pull of past karma, abiding in the Self, and remaining free from attachment to the guṇas and sense-objects.