Shloka 187

ध्यानयोगवर्णनम्

Description of the Path of Meditation

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि भुगुभरद्वाजसंवादे जीवस्वरूपनिरूपणे सप्ताशीत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi bhṛgubharadvājasaṃvāde jīvasvarūpanirūpaṇe saptāśītyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

وهكذا، في «شري مهابهاراتا» ضمن «شانتِي بارفا»—وخاصة قسم «موكشادهرما»—ينتهي الفصل الثامن والثمانون بعد المئة، في حوار بهريغو (Bhṛgu) وبهاردفاجا (Bharadvāja)، بشأن بحث حقيقة الجيفا (jīva) وبيانها.

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Shanti Parva
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: in the Mokshadharma section
• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्षधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• भृगुभरद्वाजसंवादे: in the dialogue of Bhṛgu and Bharadvāja
• भृगुभरद्वाजसंवादे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भृगु-भरद्वाज-संवाद
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• जीवस्वरूपनिरूपणे: in the exposition of the nature of the individual soul
• जीवस्वरूपनिरूपणे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: जीवस्वरूपनिरूपण
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सप्ताशीत्यधिकशततमः: the one hundred and eighty-seventh
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्ताशीत्यधिकशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भरद्वाज उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva
• Bhṛgu
• Bharadvāja
• jīva

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The chapter is framed as an inquiry into jīva-svarūpa—what the individual self truly is—placing liberation-oriented understanding (mokṣa-dharma) above merely external action, and emphasizing discernment about the self’s essential nature.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is a colophon-style closing line: it marks the conclusion of Adhyāya 188 in the Śānti Parva’s Mokṣa-dharma section, identifying the setting as a dialogue between the sages Bhṛgu and Bharadvāja and stating the chapter’s topic as the exposition of the jīva’s nature.