Shloka 8
Yājñavalkya on the Unity of Sāṃkhya and Yoga and the Marks of Meditative Composure
तदेव षोडशकल देहमव्यक्तसंज्ञकम् । ममायमिति मन्वानस्तत्रैव परिवर्तते
tad eva ṣoḍaśakala deham avyaktasaṃjñakam | mamāyam iti manvānas tatraiva parivartate ||
瓦西什塔说道：正是那具身——其性微细，被称为“未显”（avyakta）——具足十六分。无明的有情以“这是我的”之念而误认，便只在其中轮转徘徊，一再迷失于这狭隘的认同。
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bondage persists because the jīva appropriates the subtle psycho-sensory complex as ‘mine.’ This possessive identification (mamatā) with the ‘unmanifest’-designated subtle body and its constituents keeps one revolving in saṃsāra; freedom requires dis-identification through right knowledge.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on liberation-oriented dharma, Vasiṣṭha explains to his listener that the ignorant being, by clinging to the subtle body (described as having sixteen parts) and claiming it as ‘mine,’ continues to wander within the cycle of embodied experience.