Shloka 11
इन्द्र–बलि संवादः
The Dialogue of Indra and Bali on Fortune, Humility, and Restraint
ततः पश्यन्त्यसम्बुद्धया वातपित्तकफोत्तरान् | रजस्तमोगतैभविस्तदप्याहुर्दुरत्ययम्
tataḥ paśyanty asambuddhayā vātapittakaphottarān | rajastamogatāir bhāvais tad apy āhur duratyayam ||
तदनन्तर मनुष्य अज्ञानवश स्वप्न में वात, पित्त या कफ की प्रधानता से युक्त तथा काम, मोह आदि राजस-तामस भावों से व्याप्त नाना प्रकार के शरीरों का दर्शन करते हैं। तत्त्वज्ञान हुए बिना उस स्वप्न-दर्शन को लाँघना अत्यन्त कठिन कहा गया है।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Without tattva-jñāna (knowledge of reality), the mind remains unawakened and gets caught in dream-like perceptions shaped by bodily humors and the guṇas (rajas and tamas); transcending this delusive experience is therefore very difficult.
Bhishma continues his instruction in Shanti Parva, describing how ordinary people, through ignorance, experience dream-visions of many forms conditioned by physiological and psychological forces, and he stresses that only true insight enables one to go beyond such illusion.