Shloka 104
भारभृत् कथितो योगी योगीश: सर्वकामद: । आश्रम: श्रमण: क्षाम: सुपर्णो वायुवाहन:
bhārabhṛt kathito yogī yogīśaḥ sarvakāmadāḥ | āśramaḥ śramaṇaḥ kṣāmaḥ suparṇo vāyuvāhanaḥ ||
Bhīṣma dit : On l’appelle le Porteur du fardeau—sans cesse célébré dans la tradition sacrée ; yogin, Seigneur des yogin, accomplisseur de tous les désirs. Il est le refuge qui donne le repos ; l’ascète qui châtie les méchants ; la puissance qui apporte la dissolution à la fin des âges ; l’Être aux belles ailes, tel un arbre dont les feuilles sont les Veda ; et le moteur qui confère au vent lui-même la force d’aller.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that the divine sustains the world and devotees (as ‘bhārabhṛt’ and ‘āśrama’), perfects spiritual discipline (as ‘yogī’ and ‘yogīśa’), grants rightful aspirations (‘sarvakāmadā’), and also enforces moral-cosmic balance by chastening wrongdoing and ending creation at the appointed time (‘śramaṇa’, ‘kṣāma’).
In Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma continues his instruction by praising the supreme deity through a sequence of epithets—each name highlighting a different aspect of divine power: support of the earth, mastery of yoga, beneficence toward devotees, and governance of cosmic processes like wind and dissolution.