奥义书 · Mahā 2.17
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अज्ञासिषं पूर्वमेवमहमित्यथ तत्पितुः स शुकः स्वकया बुद्ध्या न वाक्यं बहु मन्यते
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ajñāsiṣaṃ pūrvamevamahamityatha tatpituḥ sa śukaḥ svakayā buddhyā na vākyaṃ bahu manyate
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अज्ञासिषम् पूर्वम् एवम् अहम्ajñāsiṣam pūrvam evam aham“I knew this even before”; “this I had grasped already”
इति अथ तत्-पितुःiti atha tat-pituḥso then, his father's; and therefore his own parent's
सः शुकः स्वकया बुद्ध्याsaḥ śukaḥ svakayā buddhyāthat Śuka, by his own reason; this Śuka, by his own understanding
न वाक्यम् बहु मन्यतेna vākyam bahu manyatedoes not value the words highly; gives the words no great weight
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“This I knew myself before” — and so Śuka, by his own reason, did not set great store by his father's words.
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b4a6f7044154 · 发布于 2026年7月29日 06:29:20 UTC
可用语言RUEN用方向键翻颂
Here is the very cause, and it is named with merciless exactness.
Śuka does not argue with his father. He agrees. Precisely for this reason nothing happened: what he heard coincided with what he already had, and so it landed not as an answer but as a repetition.
“I knew this myself” — the phrase with which every teaching is cut short. It is not false; it simply closes.
The words svakayā buddhyā, “by his own reason”, repeat what Śuka was praised for in 2.2. There it was a merit. Here the same thing has become a hindrance. His own reason brought him to the truth, and the same reason keeps the truth from becoming a support.
This place is a verdict on the notion that spiritual teaching is a transfer of information. The information Śuka had. What he lacked was acceptance — and acceptance is a relation, not knowledge.
Here is rooted the Vaiṣṇava insistence on the guru. Not because the teacher knows more than the pupil — Vyāsa knew no less than Janaka. But because truth must be received from someone; and one can receive only where one is ready not to be the source.