Shloka 33
Utkramaṇa-sthāna and Ariṣṭa-lakṣaṇa: Yājñavalkya’s Instruction on Departure Pathways and Mortality Signs
प्रकृतेश्व गुणानां च पठचविंशतिकं बुधा: । सांख्ययोगे च कुशला बुध्यन्ते परमैषिण:
prakṛteś ca guṇānāṁ ca pañcaviṁśatikaṁ budhāḥ | sāṅkhyayoge ca kuśalā budhyante paramaiṣiṇaḥ ||
瓦西什塔说道：精通数论与瑜伽的智者求道者了知，至上自性乃第二十五原理，迥异于原质及其诸德。当舍离我慢等惰性因素时，所当证悟者唯是觉知实相本身；它被称为不可见、未显，亦被称为具德之主与离德之主，常住不变，并为内在统御者。是故，知者宣说：自性超越自然之二十四成分。
वसिष्ठ उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that beyond Prakṛti and its guṇas (the twenty-four material principles) there is a distinct, conscious reality—the Supreme Self—recognized by Sāṅkhya-Yoga experts as the twenty-fifth principle, the inner ruler and eternal ground of experience.
In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on liberation, Vasiṣṭha explains to his listener(s) a Sāṅkhya-Yoga classification: sages identify the Supreme Self as transcending the constituents of nature, known when ego and other inert factors are negated.