Shloka 5
Yājñavalkya on the Unity of Sāṃkhya and Yoga and the Marks of Meditative Composure
कलायां जायते5जसंं पुन: पुनरबुद्धिमान् । धाम तस्योपयुञ्जन्ति भूय एवोपजायते
kalāyāṃ jāyate jīvaḥ punaḥ punaḥ abuddhimān | dhāma tasyopayuñjanti bhūya evopajāyate ||
瓦西什塔说道：无明之我就在那些迦罗之中一次又一次地出生。把它们当作住处与依凭，便又再度受生——反复不已——因为他仍执著其为安歇之所。
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
So long as the jīva lacks discernment (abuddhimān) and takes conditioned ‘kalās’ as its true abode, it remains bound to saṃsāra and is compelled to be born repeatedly. The ethical thrust is to cultivate right understanding and non-clinging, shifting one’s refuge away from transient supports.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction, Vasiṣṭha is explaining the mechanism of repeated birth: the individual self, due to ignorance, repeatedly settles into the same limited bases (kalās) and therefore re-arises again and again, treating those very conditions as its support.