Shloka 65
प्रत्युत्थानाभिवादा भ्यां पुनस्तान् प्रतिपद्यते । वृद्ध पुरुषके आनेपर तरुण पुरुषके प्राण ऊपरकी ओर उठने लगते हैं। ऐसी दशामें जब वह खड़ा होकर वृद्ध पुरुषोंका स्वागत और उन्हें प्रणाम करता है, तब वे प्राण पुनः पूर्वावस्थामें आ जाते हैं |। ६४ ई ।। अभिवादयीत वृद्धांश्व॒ दद्याच्चैवासनं स्वयम्
pratyutthānābhivādābhyāṃ punas tān pratipadyate | abhivādayīta vṛddhāṃś ca dadyāc caivāsanaṃ svayam ||
Bhīṣma said: “By rising to greet and by offering respectful salutations, one regains one’s former vitality. Therefore, one should salute the elders and personally offer them a seat. Such conduct preserves life-force, cultivates humility, and upholds dharma through reverence toward age, experience, and virtue.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
One should rise to welcome elders, salute them, and personally offer them a seat; this is presented as dharmic conduct that restores and preserves one’s well-being and vitality while cultivating humility and reverence.
In Bhīṣma’s instruction on righteous conduct (sadācāra), he lays down a practical rule of etiquette toward elders—standing up, greeting, and giving a seat—framing it as both morally proper and beneficial to one’s life-force.