Shloka 15
Adhyāya 199: Karma–Jñāna Causality and the Nirguṇa Brahman
Manu’s Instruction
यास्यसि ब्रह्मण: स्थानमनिमित्तमनिन्दितम् । साधये भविता चैतद् यत्त्वयाहमिहार्थिता
yāsyasi brahmaṇaḥ sthānam animittam aninditam | sādhaye bhavitā caitad yat tvayāham ihārthitā ||
Bhīṣma said: “You shall attain the abode of Brahmā—unconditioned and beyond reproach. And this too will come to pass: the very purpose for which I have been entreated here by you will be fulfilled.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhīṣma gives a twofold assurance: (1) the listener’s spiritual destiny is exalted—attaining the blameless, unconditioned ‘abode of Brahmā’; and (2) the practical aim for which Bhīṣma has been requested to speak will indeed be accomplished. Ethically, it reinforces confidence in dharmic counsel and its promised fruition.
In the Śānti Parva’s instruction-setting, Bhīṣma addresses the inquirer (implicitly Yudhiṣṭhira) and affirms both the inquirer’s future attainment and the successful completion of the purpose behind the request for Bhīṣma’s teachings.