Shloka 58
Adhyāya 119: Vyāsa–Kīṭa-saṃvāda
Tapas-bala and karmic ascent across yoni
मांसं तु कौमुद पक्ष वर्जितं पार्थ राजभि: । सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्थैरविदितार्थपरावरै:
māṁsaṁ tu kaumuda-pakṣa-varjitaṁ pārtha rājabhiḥ | sarva-bhūtātma-bhūtasthair aviditārtha-parāvaraiḥ ||
قال بهيشما: «يا بارثا، إنّ الملوك الذين تركوا أكل اللحم في موسم كاومودا خلال النصفين من الشهر—أو حتى خلال نصفٍ واحد—كأنما استقرّوا في الذات الكامنة في جميع الكائنات. وبذلك الضبط للنفس أدركوا المبادئ العليا والدنيا للوجود (بارافارا).»
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhīṣma teaches that voluntary restraint—specifically abstaining from meat during a sacred seasonal/fortnight observance—cultivates compassion and self-mastery, and is said to yield elevated spiritual insight (knowledge of the higher and lower principles, para and apara).
In his instruction to Arjuna, Bhīṣma praises a vow observed by exemplary kings: refraining from meat during the Kaumuda fortnight(s). He presents this as a dharmic practice that led those rulers to a heightened, universal identification with all beings and to deeper metaphysical understanding.