Shloka 93
कृष्णव्रता: कृष्णमनुस्मरन्तो रात्रौ च कृष्णं पुनरुत्थिता ये । ते कृष्णदेहा: प्रविशन्ति कृष्ण- माज्यं यथा मन्त्रहुतं हुताशे
kṛṣṇavratāḥ kṛṣṇam anusmaranto rātrau ca kṛṣṇaṃ punar utthitā ye | te kṛṣṇadehāḥ praviśanti kṛṣṇam ājyaṃ yathā mantrahutaṃ hutāśe ||
ভীষ্মে ক’লে—যিসকলে কৃষ্ণব্ৰত গ্ৰহণ কৰিছে, যিসকলে সদায় কৃষ্ণক অনুস্মৰণ কৰে, আৰু যিসকলে ৰাতিতো কৃষ্ণক মনত ৰাখি পুনৰ উঠি বহে—সিহঁতে কৃষ্ণস্বৰূপ হৈ কৃষ্ণত প্ৰৱেশ কৰে; যেনেকৈ মন্ত্ৰোচ্চাৰসহ অগ্নিত আহুতি দিয়া ঘৃত অগ্নিত লীন হয়।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Single-pointed devotion expressed as disciplined remembrance (vrata + anusmaraṇa) transforms the devotee’s nature; such a person ‘enters’ Kṛṣṇa—i.e., attains intimate union or final refuge in the divine—like a properly consecrated oblation reaching the fire.
In Bhīṣma’s instruction in the Śānti Parva, he praises Kṛṣṇa-centered observance: devotees who continually remember Kṛṣṇa, even rising at night for renewed recollection, are described as becoming Kṛṣṇa-formed and merging into him, illustrated through the sacrificial image of ghee offered with mantra entering Agni.