Shloka 14
Adhyāya 70: Sātyaki’s Arrow-Display and the Bhūriśravas Engagement; Twilight Withdrawal
जो सम्पूर्ण भूतोंको तथा पर्वतोंसहित इस पृथ्वीको धारण करते हैं, जिन्हें विश्वरूपी अनन्तदेव तथा शेष कहा गया है, उन्हें भी उन परमात्माने ही उत्पन्न किया है ।।
dhyānayogena viprāś ca taṃ vidanti mahaujasam | karṇasrotodbhavaṃ cāpi madhuṃ nāma mahāsuram ||
Bhīṣma said: The supremely powerful Lord is known by the sages through the discipline of meditative yoga. From the ear-stream of that cosmic Being there also arose Madhu, the great Asura.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
True knowledge of the Supreme is attained by sages through dhyāna-yoga (meditative discipline), and even formidable beings like the Asura Madhu are portrayed as arising within the overarching divine reality—supporting the idea of divine sovereignty over all existence.
Bhishma continues a theological-cosmological explanation: he points to how seers realize the supremely powerful Lord through meditation and cites a mythic detail—Madhu, a great Asura, is said to have originated from the ‘ear-stream’ of the cosmic Being—illustrating the Lord as the source of diverse beings.