Shloka 21
Yajña-bhāga-vyavasthā and the Pravṛtti–Nivṛtti Framework (यज्ञभागव्यवस्था तथा प्रवृत्तिनिवृत्तिधर्मविवेचनम्)
पावकेन परिक्षिप्तं दीप्पता यस्य चाश्रमम्,भगवान् शंकरके उस आश्रमको प्रज्वलित अग्निने चारों ओरसे घेर रक्खा है। उस पर्ववशिखरका नाम आदित्यगिरि है, जिसपर अजितात्मा पुरुष नहीं चढ़ सकते। यक्ष, राक्षस और दानवोंके लिये वहाँ पहुँचना सर्वधा असम्भव है
pāvakena parikṣiptaṃ dīptatā yasya cāśramam | bhagavān śaṅkaraḥ tasya āśramaṃ prajvalitāgninā caturdiśaṃ parikṣipya rakṣati | tasya parvataśikharasya nāma ādityagiriḥ | tatra ajitātmānaḥ puruṣā na āroḍhuṃ śaknuvanti | yakṣarākṣasadānavānāṃ tatra prāptir api sarvathā asambhavā ||
Bhīṣma said: That hermitage is ringed about by blazing fire; the blessed Lord Śaṅkara has encircled it on every side with fiercely kindled flame as a divine safeguard. The mountain-peak is called Ādityagiri, and men who have not conquered themselves cannot ascend it. For Yakṣas, Rākṣasas, and Dānavas, reaching that place is altogether impossible.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Sacred attainments are guarded by both divine ordinance and inner qualification: without self-conquest (jita-ātmā), one cannot access higher, protected realms. Ethical discipline and mastery over the self are presented as prerequisites for approaching the holy.
Bhishma describes a hermitage on the summit called Ādityagiri, which Śiva (Śaṅkara) has encircled with blazing fire. The place is inaccessible to the undisciplined and entirely unreachable for hostile classes of beings such as Yakṣas, Rākṣasas, and Dānavas.