Shloka 12
Makara-vyūha and Krauñca-prativyūha at Sunrise (मकरव्यूहः क्रौञ्चप्रतिव्यूहश्च)
एष ते विस्तरस्तात संक्षेपश्न प्रकीर्तित: । केशवस्य यथातत्त्वं सुप्रीतोी भज केशवम्
eṣa te vistaras tāta saṅkṣepaś ca prakīrtitaḥ | keśavasya yathātattvaṃ suprīto bhaja keśavam ||
Bhīṣma said: “Dear child, I have now set forth for you—both in detail and in summary—the true reality of Keshava. Therefore, with a heart made glad and reverent, take refuge in Keshava and worship him.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
True understanding of Keshava’s divine reality should lead to joyful devotion and surrender; ethical clarity is grounded in recognizing the higher order embodied by Keshava.
Bhishma concludes a discourse to Duryodhana, stating he has explained Keshava’s greatness both fully and briefly, and he exhorts Duryodhana to worship and take refuge in Keshava—an implicit warning against continuing on a ruinous path.