Shloka 4
जनकस्य मोक्षमार्गप्रश्नः तथा पञ्चशिखोपदेश-प्रस्तावः | Janaka’s Path to Liberation: Prelude to Pañcaśikha’s Instruction
तद्वदव्यक्तजा भावा: कर्तु: कारणलक्षणा: । अचेतनाश्रेतयितु: कारणादभिसंहता:
tadvad avyaktajā bhāvāḥ kartuḥ kāraṇalakṣaṇāḥ | acetanāśrayetayuḥ kāraṇād abhisaṃhatāḥ ||
ভীষ্ম ক’লে—তেনেকৈ অব্যক্তৰ পৰা উৎপন্ন তত্ত্ব-ভাবসমূহ কাৰণ-লক্ষণযুক্ত। সিহঁত নিজে অচেতন হ’লেও চেতন আশ্ৰয়ৰ সংযোগত, কৰ্তাৰ উপকৰণৰূপে একত্ৰিত হৈ ‘জনা’ আদি ক্ৰিয়াৰ কাৰণ হৈ উঠে।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Principles arising from the Unmanifest (prakṛti) are inert by themselves, yet when associated with a conscious substratum (the self/puruṣa) and combined as instruments, they function as causes for cognition and other activities.
In the Shanti Parva’s philosophical instruction, Bhishma continues explaining how the world-process works: insentient constituents derived from the Unmanifest become operative only through their relation to consciousness, thereby enabling knowing and action.