Shloka 60
तृष्णाक्षय-उपदेशः
Instruction on the Cessation of Craving
शास्त्रादपेतं पश्यन्ति बहवो व्यक्तमानिन: । शास्त्रदोषान् न पश्यन्ति शोचन्ति च यथा वयम् | इन्द्रियार्थाश्न भवतां समाना: सर्वजन्तुषु
śāstrād apetaṁ paśyanti bahavo vyaktamāninaḥ | śāstradoṣān na paśyanti śocanti ca yathā vayam | indriyārthāś ca bhavatāṁ samānāḥ sarvajantuṣu ||
迦毗罗说道：许多人自负只凭感官所见的显现，便背离诸《论典》（śāstra），把目光仅系于此世。他们看不见《论典》所指出的过失，转而依止非吠陀之见，便如我们一般忧悲。至于诸根所缘之境，其作用于你与作用于一切众生并无二致；即便智者也会遭遇感官之域，只是应当如实辨别而已。
कपिल उवाच
Educational Q&A
Kapila warns that those who rely only on what is directly perceptible (the ‘manifest’) and turn away from śāstra fail to notice the deeper defects of worldly life; as a result they fall into grief. Even the wise experience sense-objects like all beings, but wisdom lies in discernment and non-enslavement to them.
In the Śānti Parva’s instructional dialogue, Kapila is delivering a philosophical-ethical critique of non-scriptural, purely sense-based outlooks. He contrasts śāstra-guided insight with worldly empiricism and explains why attachment to sense-objects leads to sorrow, even though sense experience itself is common to all creatures.