Shloka 104
भारभृत् कथितो योगी योगीश: सर्वकामद: । आश्रम: श्रमण: क्षाम: सुपर्णो वायुवाहन:
bhārabhṛt kathito yogī yogīśaḥ sarvakāmadāḥ | āśramaḥ śramaṇaḥ kṣāmaḥ suparṇo vāyuvāhanaḥ ||
Bhīṣma said: He is called the Bearer of the burden—ever spoken of in sacred lore; a yogin, the Lord of yogins, the fulfiller of all desires. He is the refuge that grants rest, the ascetic who chastens the wicked, the power that brings dissolution at the end of time, the fair-winged one like a tree of Vedic leaves, and the mover who empowers the wind itself.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that the divine sustains the world and devotees (as ‘bhārabhṛt’ and ‘āśrama’), perfects spiritual discipline (as ‘yogī’ and ‘yogīśa’), grants rightful aspirations (‘sarvakāmadā’), and also enforces moral-cosmic balance by chastening wrongdoing and ending creation at the appointed time (‘śramaṇa’, ‘kṣāma’).
In Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma continues his instruction by praising the supreme deity through a sequence of epithets—each name highlighting a different aspect of divine power: support of the earth, mastery of yoga, beneficence toward devotees, and governance of cosmic processes like wind and dissolution.