Shloka 72
Adhyātma–Adhibhūta–Adhidaivata Correspondences and the Triguṇa Lakṣaṇas (Śānti-parva 301)
तरन्ति यतय: सिद्धा ज्ञानयानेन भारत । तीर्त्वातिदुस्तरं जन्म विशन्ति विमलं नभ:
taranti yatayaḥ siddhā jñānayānena bhārata | tīrtvātidustaraṃ janma viśanti vimalaṃ nabhaḥ ||
ভীষ্মে ক’লে—হে ভাৰত! সিদ্ধ যতি জ্ঞান-ৰূপ যানৰে এই অতিদুস্তৰ দেহধাৰী জন্ম-অৱস্থা পাৰ কৰে; আৰু তাক অতিক্ৰম কৰি তেওঁলোকে বিমল নভ—অৰ্থাৎ শুদ্ধ, কলুষহীন ব্ৰহ্ম-অৱস্থা—ত প্ৰৱেশ কৰে।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation is attained by transcendent knowledge (jñāna): perfected ascetics use knowledge as the ‘vehicle’ to cross the difficult ocean-like condition of birth and enter the pure, limitless reality (Brahman), described metaphorically as the stainless sky.
In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and the path beyond suffering. Here he summarizes the culmination of the teaching: accomplished renouncers, through knowledge, pass beyond embodied existence and reach the pure state of ultimate reality.