Shloka 22
Adhyāya 249 — Mṛtyu-prādurbhāvaḥ (The Manifestation of Death) / Restraint of Tejas and Ordered Saṃhāra
यह गोपनीय आत्मज्ञान सबसे अधिक गुह्मतम और महान् है। तात! मैंने जिसका उपदेश किया है, वह यथार्थतः मेरे अपने प्रत्यक्ष अनुभवमें लाया हुआ ज्ञान है ।।
vyāsa uvāca | naiva strī na pumān etan naiva caid na puṃsakam | aduḥkham asukhaṃ brahma bhūta-bhavya-bhavātmakam ||
毗耶娑说：此梵（Brahman）离苦离乐，其自性涵摄过去、未来与现在；既非女，亦非男，亦非中性。故而，至秘的我性之教，指向一切身相与言说分类之外，归于那支撑万有生灭的无时之真实。
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
Brahman (the ultimate Self/reality) transcends all gendered and grammatical categories and is beyond the dualities of pleasure and pain; it is the timeless ground that includes past, present, and future.
In the instruction-setting of Śānti Parva, Vyāsa delivers a highly confidential teaching on Self-knowledge, clarifying that the highest reality cannot be captured by bodily identity or linguistic labels, and must be understood as beyond all dualities.