Shloka 33
अविद्यां क्षेत्रमाहुरहि कर्म बीज॑ तथा कृतम् । तृष्णा संजननं स्नेह एष तेषां पुनर्भव:,अविद्याको वे क्षेत्र कहते हैं। पूर्व-जन्मोंका किया हुआ कर्म बीज है और तृष्णा अंकुरकी उत्पत्ति करानेवाला स्नेह या जल है। यही उनके मतमें पुनर्जन्मका प्रकार है
avidyāṁ kṣetram āhur hi karma bījaṁ tathā kṛtam | tṛṣṇā sañjananaṁ sneha eṣa teṣāṁ punarbhavaḥ ||
ভীষ্মে ক’লে— “তেওঁলোকে অবিদ্যাক ক্ষেত্ৰ বুলে; পূৰ্বজন্মত কৃত কৰ্ম বীজ; আৰু তৃষ্ণাই সেই স্নেহ—জল—যিয়ে অঙ্কুৰ উগায়। তেওঁলোকৰ মতে এইদৰেই পুণৰ্ভৱ ঘটে।”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Rebirth is explained through an agricultural metaphor: ignorance provides the ‘field’ for bondage, past actions supply the ‘seed’ of future experience, and craving/attachment acts like ‘moisture’ that makes the seed sprout again as renewed existence. Reducing ignorance and craving is implied as the ethical-spiritual remedy.
In Shanti Parva, Bhishma instructs Yudhishthira on dharma and liberation-oriented wisdom. Here he summarizes a doctrinal account of how saṁsāra continues—linking avidyā, karma, and tṛṣṇā as the causal chain behind repeated birth.