Shloka 29
Mokṣa–Saṃnyāsa–Tyāga–Guṇa-Vibhāga (Renunciation, Relinquishment, and the Three Guṇas) — Mahābhārata 6, Bhīṣma-parva
सम्बन्ध-- इस प्रकार नित्य विज्ञानानन्न्दधन आत्मतत्त्वको सर्वत्र समभावसे देखनेका महत्त्व और फल बतलाकर अब जगले श्लोकमें उसे अकर्ता देखनेवालेकी महिमा कहते हैं प्रकृत्यैव च कर्माणि क्रियमाणानि सर्वश: । यः पश्यति तथा55त्मानमकर्तारें स पश्यति
prakṛtyaiva ca karmāṇi kriyamāṇāni sarvaśaḥ | yaḥ paśyati tathātmānam akartāraṃ sa paśyati ||
সকলো কৰ্ম সকলো প্ৰকাৰে কেৱল প্ৰকৃতিৰ দ্বাৰাই সম্পন্ন হয়। যি ব্যক্তি এইদৰে দেখে আৰু আত্মাক অকর্তা বুলি দেখে—সেই-ই যথাৰ্থ দেখে।
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Actions belong to Prakṛti (the causal play of qualities and conditions), while the Ātman is to be understood as akartā (non-agent). True vision is to act without egoic ownership—performing duty while relinquishing the claim ‘I am the doer.’
In the Bhīṣma Parva’s battlefield instruction-context, Arjuna is being guided toward steadiness and right understanding. The verse frames a way to engage in necessary action without inner collapse: see the forces of nature performing deeds, and keep the Self free from doership and blame.