Shloka 187

ध्यानयोगवर्णनम्

Description of the Path of Meditation

Devanagari script

इति श्रीमहाभारते शान्तिपर्वणि मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि भुगुभरद्वाजसंवादे जीवस्वरूपनिरूपणे सप्ताशीत्यधिकशततमो<ध्याय:

Transliteration

iti śrīmahābhārate śāntiparvaṇi mokṣadharmaparvaṇi bhṛgubharadvājasaṃvāde jīvasvarūpanirūpaṇe saptāśītyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Translation

ইতি শ্রীমহাভারতের শান্তিপর্বের মোক্ষধর্মপর্বে ভৃগু-ভারদ্বাজ সংলাপে জীবস্বরূপ-নিরূপণবিষয়ক একশো আটাশি-তম অধ্যায় সমাপ্ত।

Word by Word

• इति: thus; end-quote marker
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• श्रीमहाभारते: in the revered Mahabharata
• श्रीमहाभारते: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रीमहाभारत
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• शान्तिपर्वणि: in the Shanti Parva
• शान्तिपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शान्तिपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: in the Mokshadharma section
• मोक्षधर्मपर्वणि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्षधर्मपर्वन्
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• भृगुभरद्वाजसंवादे: in the dialogue of Bhṛgu and Bharadvāja
• भृगुभरद्वाजसंवादे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भृगु-भरद्वाज-संवाद
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• जीवस्वरूपनिरूपणे: in the exposition of the nature of the individual soul
• जीवस्वरूपनिरूपणे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: जीवस्वरूपनिरूपण
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• सप्ताशीत्यधिकशततमः: the one hundred and eighty-seventh
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सप्ताशीत्यधिकशततम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अध्यायः: chapter
• Type: Noun
• Root: अध्याय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भरद्वाज उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mahābhārata
• Śānti Parva
• Mokṣa-dharma Parva
• Bhṛgu
• Bharadvāja
• jīva

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The chapter is framed as an inquiry into jīva-svarūpa—what the individual self truly is—placing liberation-oriented understanding (mokṣa-dharma) above merely external action, and emphasizing discernment about the self’s essential nature.

What is happening in the narrative?

This is a colophon-style closing line: it marks the conclusion of Adhyāya 188 in the Śānti Parva’s Mokṣa-dharma section, identifying the setting as a dialogue between the sages Bhṛgu and Bharadvāja and stating the chapter’s topic as the exposition of the jīva’s nature.