Shloka 16
आत्मदर्शन-उपदेशः (Ātma-darśana Upadeśa) — Mind, Senses, and the All-pervading Self
पित्र्ये राग्यहनी मास: प्रविभागस्तयो: पुनः । शुक्लो5ह: कर्मचेष्टायां कृष्ण: स्पप्नाय शर्वरी
pitrye rātryahani māsaḥ pravibhāgas tayoḥ punaḥ | śuklo 'haḥ karmaceṣṭāyāṃ kṛṣṇaḥ svapnāya śarvarī ||
व्यासजी बताते हैं—पितृलोक में मनुष्यों का एक मास एक दिन-रात के बराबर होता है। वहाँ शुक्लपक्ष उनका दिन है—कर्मचेष्टा के लिये; और कृष्णपक्ष उनकी रात्रि है—विश्राम और निद्रा के लिये।
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
Time is relative across realms: the Pitṛs experience a different day-night cycle, where a human month equals their full day and night. This frames human observances within a broader dharmic cosmos and encourages disciplined, timely performance of duties and ancestral rites.
Vyāsa is instructing about cosmological time-reckoning connected with the ancestors (Pitṛs), explaining that the bright fortnight corresponds to their active daytime and the dark fortnight to their restful night.