Shloka 50
तृष्णाक्षय-उपदेशः
Instruction on the Cessation of Craving
ज्ञानं प्लावयते सर्व यो ज्ञान हानुवर्तते । ज्ञानादपेत्य या वृत्ति: सा विनाशयति प्रजा:
jñānaṁ plāvayate sarvaṁ yo jñānam anuvartate | jñānād apetyā yā vṛttiḥ sā vināśayati prajāḥ ||
若人真正随顺智慧，智慧便如舟筏，使其安然渡过世间系缚的一切纠缠；然而凡离弃智慧之行径，必驱使众生走向败亡，将其再度抛入生死轮回之中。
कपिल उवाच
Educational Q&A
Kapila teaches that jñāna—true liberating knowledge—functions like a raft: one who follows it is carried beyond worldly bondage, while conduct divorced from knowledge leads to spiritual and existential ruin by perpetuating saṁsāra.
In Śānti Parva’s didactic discourse, Kapila is instructing about the supremacy of knowledge over mere action: adherence to knowledge liberates, whereas ignorant activity binds beings to repeated birth and death.