Shloka 82
नारद–शुक संवादः
Impermanence, Svabhāva, and Śuka’s Resolve for Yoga
पश्यापश्यं यो न पश्येत् क्षेम्यं तत्त्वं च काश्यप । केवलाकेवलं चाद्यं पञ्चविंशं परं च यत्
paśyāpaśyaṃ yo na paśyet kṣemyaṃ tattvaṃ ca kāśyapa | kevalākevalaṃ cādyaṃ pañcaviṃśaṃ paraṃ ca yat ||
阎若伐迦说道：“迦叶波啊，凡不能辨别‘见者’与‘非见者’——不能分清有觉知之我与无觉知之境——便不能真正观见吉祥的实相。此人亦不能如实了知‘kevala’（纯净不系之我）、‘akevala’（与Prakṛti相应之我）、本初原理、第二十五原理（Puruṣa，灵我），以及超越一切的至上者。缺此正知，便仍困于轮回往来之圈。”
याज़्ञवल्क्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberating insight requires discriminating consciousness (the seer/Self) from insentient nature (the seen/Prakṛti and its products). One must also understand the Self as both ‘pure’ (kevala) and ‘associated’ (akevala) in lived experience, recognize the Sāṅkhya framework of principles (including the 25th, Puruṣa), and know the Supreme beyond them; without this right discernment, one remains bound to saṃsāra.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on peace and liberation, the sage Yājñavalkya addresses Kāśyapa, emphasizing philosophical discrimination and correct metaphysical knowledge as the basis for welfare and release from repeated birth and death.