Shloka 49
अव्यक्त-मानस-सृष्टिवादः
Doctrine of Creation from the Unmanifest ‘Mānasa’
एतां बुद्धि समास्थाय सुखमास्ते गुणान्वित: । सर्वान् कामान् जुगुप्सेत कामान् कुर्वीत पृष्ठत:
etāṁ buddhiṁ samāsthāya sukham āste guṇānvitaḥ | sarvān kāmān jugupset kāmān kurvīta pṛṣṭhataḥ ||
Grounded in this understanding, a person endowed with the virtue of renunciation lives at ease. Therefore, one should feel revulsion toward all sense-pleasures and keep desires behind oneself—turning away from them rather than following them.
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Happiness and steadiness arise from adopting right discernment (buddhi) and cultivating detachment: one should actively avoid sense-driven desires and turn away from them, treating them as something to be left behind.
In the Shanti Parva’s instructional discourse, a Brahmana speaker continues ethical teaching, advising that a person who embraces this insight lives peacefully by rejecting and distancing oneself from desires and pleasures.