Shloka 33

त्रिवर्गविचारः

Tri-varga Deliberation: Dharma, Artha, Kāma

Devanagari script

ज्ञानारामस्य बुद्धस्य सर्वभूताविरोधिन: । नावृत्तिभयमस्तीह परलोकभयं कुत:,जिसका किसी भी प्राणीके साथ विरोध नहीं है, जो ज्ञानस्वरूप आत्मामें रमता रहता है, ऐसे ज्ञानीको इस लोकमें पुन: जन्म लेनेका भय ही नहीं रहता, फिर उसे परलोकका भय कैसे हो सकता है?

Transliteration

jñānārāmasya buddhasya sarvabhūtāvirodhinaḥ | nāvṛttibhayam astīha paralokabhayaṃ kutaḥ ||

Translation

ભીષ્મે કહ્યું—જે જ્ઞાનસ્વરૂપ આત્મામાં રમે છે, જે બુદ્ધિમાન છે અને સર્વ પ્રાણીઓ પ્રત્યે અવિરોધી છે—એવા જ્ઞાનીને ઇહલોકમાં પુનર્જન્મનો ભય રહેતો નથી; તો પરલોકનો ભય તેને ક્યાંથી થાય?

Word by Word

ज्ञानारामस्यof the one who delights in knowledge (knowledge-delighting sage)

बुद्धस्यof the enlightened/wise one

सर्वभूताविरोधिनःof one who is non-hostile to all beings

नnot

आवृत्तिभयम्fear of return (rebirth)

अस्तिis/exists

इहhere (in this world)

परलोकभयम्fear of the next world

कुतःwhence?/how (could it be)?

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Freedom from fear arises from two linked attainments: abiding in the Self as knowledge (jñānārāma) and complete non-hostility toward all beings (sarvabhūtāvirodhin). Such a person is not bound to return to rebirth (āvṛtti), and therefore has no anxiety about the afterlife (paraloka).

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and liberation, Bhīṣma continues advising Yudhiṣṭhira by describing the marks of a liberated, awakened person: one who is inwardly established in knowledge and outwardly harmless to all beings, thereby transcending fear of both this world and the next.