Shloka 38
कालयुक्तधर्मविवेकः
Discerning Dharma in Accord with Time
जो श्रद्धालु, दयालु, शुद्ध, शुद्धजनोंके प्रेमी तथा धर्म और अधर्मके ज्ञाता हैं, वे मनुष्य स्वर्गगामी होते हैं ।।
śrīmaheśvara uvāca | ye śraddhālavo dayālavaḥ śuddhāḥ śuddhajanapremiṇaḥ dharmādharmavido manuṣyāḥ svargagāmino bhavanti | śubhānām aśubhānāṃ ca karmaṇāṃ phalasañcaye vipākajñā ye devi te narāḥ svargagāminaḥ ||
Śrī Maheśvara said: Those who are faithful, compassionate, and pure; who love the company of the pure; and who discern dharma and adharma attain the path to heaven. O Devī, those who understand the accumulated fruits of both auspicious and inauspicious deeds—who know how actions ripen into consequences—such persons go to the heavenly world.
श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Heavenward progress is linked to inner and social virtues—faith, compassion, purity, love of the virtuous—and to moral discernment: knowing dharma from adharma and understanding how actions (good and bad) accumulate and ripen into results.
Śrī Maheśvara addresses Devī, describing the qualities of people who attain svarga, emphasizing both character (śraddhā, dayā, śuddhi, sat-saṅga) and ethical insight into karmic consequences (śubha/aśubha karma-phala and their vipāka).