Shloka 29
Śreyas-nirdeśa (Discerning the Superior Good): Nārada–Gālava Saṃvāda
अमृतं चैव मृत्युश्च द्वयं देहे प्रतेष्ठितम्
amṛtaṃ caiva mṛtyuś ca dvayaṃ dehe pratiṣṭhitam
Bhīṣma dit : « L’immortalité et la mort, toutes deux, sont établies dans le corps. » Sur le plan éthique, la vie incarnée porte en elle les conditions de la délivrance (le “sans-mort”) comme l’inéluctable mort physique ; la conduite et l’intelligence de chacun déterminent quel aspect devient décisif spirituellement.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The body is the locus of a dual truth: it is subject to death, yet it can also be the field in which one realizes the deathless (amṛta) through right understanding and disciplined living.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction section, Bhīṣma continues advising on higher dharma and inner knowledge, framing embodied existence as containing both mortality and the possibility of attaining the imperishable.