Shloka 5
Haṃsa–Sādhya Saṃvāda: Satya, Dama, Kṣamā and the Discipline of Speech
सुखं मोक्षसुखं लोके न च मूढो5वगच्छति । प्रसक्त: पुत्रपशुषु धनधान्यसमाकुल:
sukhaṁ mokṣa-sukhaṁ loke na ca mūḍho ’vagacchati | prasaktaḥ putra-paśuṣu dhana-dhānya-samākulaḥ ||
قال بهيشما: في هذا العالم، إن سعادة الموكشا (التحرّر) هي السعادة الحقيقية الوحيدة؛ غير أنّ المغرور المضلَّل لا يدركها. فمن انغمس في جمع المال والحبوب، وتعلّق بالأبناء والماشية، ظلّت تلك الحقيقة عنه مجهولة.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation (mokṣa) is presented as the only genuinely reliable happiness; worldly attachments—especially to wealth, provisions, children, and livestock—cloud discernment and prevent one from recognizing that higher good.
In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and the path beyond suffering, Bhishma continues advising the listener by contrasting transient household-centered preoccupations with the superior, enduring happiness of mokṣa.