Shloka 3
मातापितृगुरुपूजा-प्रशंसा
Praise of Venerating Mother, Father, and Teacher
भीष्म उवाच मातापित्रोर्गुरूणां च पूजा बहुमता मम । इह युक्तो नरो लोकान् यशश्च महदश्लुते,भीष्मजीने कहा--राजन्! मुझे तो माता-पिता तथा गुरुजनोंकी पूजा ही अधिक महत्त्वकी वस्तु जान पड़ती है। इसलोकमें इस पुण्य कार्यमें संलग्न होकर मनुष्य महान् यश और श्रेष्ठ लोक पाता है
bhīṣma uvāca mātāpitrorgurūṇāṃ ca pūjā bahumatā mama | iha yukto naro lokān yaśaś ca mahad aśnute ||
Bhishma said: “To me, the honoring of one’s mother and father and of one’s teachers is of the highest importance. A person devoted to this virtuous practice in this world attains great renown and reaches excellent realms hereafter.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhishma teaches that reverential service to one’s parents and teachers is a foremost dharmic duty; it yields both social virtue—great fame—and spiritual fruit—attainment of higher realms.
In the Shanti Parva’s instruction section, Bhishma addresses the king and presents a normative ethical principle: the worshipful honoring of parents and gurus as a central practice that brings worldly and otherworldly benefit.