Shloka 6
Vānaprastha-dharma and Tapas: Śiva–Umā Saṃvāda
Forest-Stage Discipline and Austerity
येन यः प्रीयते देव: प्रीयन्ते पितरस्तथा । ऋषय: प्रमथा: श्रीक्ष चित्रगुप्तो दिशां गजा:,जिससे देवता, पितर, ऋषि, प्रमथगण, लक्ष्मी, चित्रगुप्त और दिग्गज प्रसन्न होते हैं
yena yaḥ prīyate devaḥ prīyante pitaras tathā | ṛṣayaḥ pramathāḥ śrīś ca citragupto diśāṁ gajāḥ ||
Bhīṣma sprach: „Durch welche Tat eine bestimmte Gottheit erfreut wird, durch eben diese Tat werden auch die Pitṛs (Ahnen) erfreut; ebenso die Ṛṣis, die Pramatha-Gefolgsleute, Śrī (Lakṣmī), Citragupta und die Elefanten der Himmelsrichtungen.“
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
That proper worship and righteous conduct have broad spiritual efficacy: pleasing the intended deity also brings satisfaction to ancestors, sages, attendant beings, prosperity (Śrī), the moral record-keeper (Citragupta), and the guardians of the directions—signaling harmony with the wider moral-cosmic order.
In Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma continues instructing Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma. Here he emphasizes the far-reaching results of acts that please the divine—such acts are portrayed as simultaneously gratifying multiple classes of revered and cosmic beings.