Shloka 70
श्रेयो-धर्मकर्मविचारः
Inquiry into Śreyas, Dharma, and Karma
प्रजाविसर्ग च सुखेन काले प्रत्येत्य देवेषु सुखानि भुक्त्वा । सुखेन संयास्यथ सिद्धसंख्यां मा वो भयं भूद् विमला: स्थ सर्वे
prajāvisargaṃ ca sukhena kāle pratyetya deveṣu sukhāni bhuktvā | sukhena saṃnyāsyatha siddhasaṃkhyāṃ mā vo bhayaṃ bhūd vimalāḥ stha sarve ||
Bhīṣma dit : «En temps voulu, vous engendrerez avec joie une descendance ; puis, quittant ce monde, vous atteindrez les royaumes des dieux et goûterez aux plaisirs célestes. Ensuite, renonçant avec aisance, vous atteindrez la perfection et serez comptés parmi les Siddha. Que nulle crainte ne s’élève en vous : demeurez assurés, car vous êtes tous purs et sans péché.»
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhishma affirms a dharmic life-sequence: fulfill household responsibilities (including procreation) at the proper time, attain heavenly results through merit, and ultimately move toward renunciation and spiritual perfection—therefore the listeners should be free of fear because their conduct is pure.
In Shanti Parva, Bhishma is instructing and consoling his audience with a promise of auspicious outcomes: they will live rightly, reach the gods’ realms, and later attain the status of Siddhas; he explicitly removes their anxiety by declaring them stainless and sinless.