Shloka 38
यद् यदागमसंयुक्त न कृच्छुमनुपश्यति । अथ तत्राप्युपादत्ते तमोडव्यक्तमिवानृतम्,सुषुप्तिकालमें स्वप्नदर्शी पुरुष उपस्थित दुःखको प्रत्यक्षकी भाँति अनुभव नहीं करता है। इसलिये वह सुषुप्तिकालमें भी तमोगुणयुक्त मिथ्या सुखका अनुभव करता है
yad yad āgama-saṁyuktaṁ na kṛcchram anupaśyati | atha tatrāpy upādatte tamoḍa-vyaktam ivānṛtam ||
Bhīṣma said: “Whatever state is conjoined with the impressions of past experience, a person does not perceive its hardship as hardship. Even there, he takes up a kind of false contentment—obscured by tamas and indistinct, as though unmanifest. Thus, like a dreamer who does not apprehend suffering as plainly real, one in deep sleep still undergoes a tamas-born, illusory ‘happiness’.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
That the mind can fail to recognize suffering when it is veiled by tamas and habitual impressions; even in deep sleep one may ‘experience’ a kind of false, indistinct contentment that is not true well-being.
In the Śānti Parva’s instruction, Bhīṣma continues teaching about the nature of mind and experience, using sleep/dream imagery to show how delusion can make hardship seem absent and can present an illusory sense of ease.