Shloka 139
मानसतीर्थ-शौचप्रशंसा | Praise of the ‘Mental Tīrtha’ and the Marks of Purity
अभ्रावकाशशीलक्ष् तस्य भानोरिव त्विष: । जो मनुष्य सदा मुनि, जितेन्द्रिय, क्रोधको जीतनेवाला, शिश्रव और उदरके वेगको सदा काबूमें रखनेवाला, नियमपूर्वक तीनों अग्नियोंमें आहुति देनेवाला और संध्योपासनामें तत्पर रहनेवाला है तथा जो पवित्र होकर इन पहले बताये हुए अनेक प्रकारके नियमोंके पालनपूर्वक भोजन करता है, वह आकाशके समान निर्मल होता है और उसकी कान्ति सूर्यकी प्रभाके समान प्रकाशित होती है ।। दिवं गत्वा शरीरेण स्वेन राजन् यथामर:
abhrāvakāśaśīlakṣa tasya bhānor iva tviṣaḥ | yo manuṣyaḥ sadā muniḥ jitendriyaḥ krodhako jitanevālaḥ śiśravaḥ udaravegaṃ sadā kābūmeṃ rakhanevālaḥ niyamapūrvakaṃ trīṇy agniṣu āhutiṃ dānevālaḥ sandhyopāsanāyāṃ tatparaḥ | tathā yaḥ pavitraḥ san pūrvokta-nānāvidha-niyamānāṃ pālanapūrvakaṃ bhojanaṃ karoti sa ākāśa-samānaṃ nirmalaḥ bhavati tasya kāntiḥ sūrya-prabhā-samānaṃ prakāśate || divaṃ gatvā śarīreṇa svena rājan yathāmaraḥ ||
Bhīṣma said: “The radiance of that man becomes like the splendor of the sun, and his nature becomes clear and open like the sky. He who lives as a sage—self-controlled, a conqueror of anger, restraining the impulses of lust and the urges of the belly, offering oblations in the three sacred fires according to rule, and devoted to the daily twilight worship—who, being purified, takes his food only while observing the many disciplines described earlier: such a person becomes spotless like the sky, and his brilliance shines like sunlight. O King, having gone to heaven with his own body, he becomes like a god.”
भीष्म उवाच