Shloka 6
न हाधर्मतयाधर्म दद्यात् काल: कथंचन । तस्माद् विशुद्धमात्मानं जानीयाद् धर्मचारिणम्
na hādharmatayā dharmaṁ dadyāt kālaḥ kathaṁcana | tasmād viśuddham ātmānaṁ jānīyād dharmacāriṇam ||
Bhishma dijo: «El tiempo no puede, de ningún modo, convertir el dharma en adharma; no puede hacer que la rectitud misma se vuelva injusticia. Por ello, debe reconocerse al practicante del dharma como alguien de ser purificado: a quien el sufrimiento y los giros adversos del tiempo no pueden manchar ni invalidar en el orden moral».
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Dharma is intrinsically pure and cannot be converted into adharma by the pressures of time or circumstance; therefore a true practitioner of dharma should be regarded as inwardly purified, even if they face hardship.
In Bhishma’s instruction (Anushasana Parva), he emphasizes to his listener that misfortune or delay caused by time does not invalidate righteousness; the righteous person’s moral status remains intact despite suffering.