Shloka 25
Abhimanyu’s Assault on Bhīṣma’s Screen; Banner-Felling and Reinforcements (सौभद्र-भीष्म-समरः)
२४ ।। तदित्यनभिसंधाय फलं यज्ञतप:क्रिया: । दानक्रियाश्व विविधा: क्रियन्ते मोक्षकाड्क्षिभि:,तत् अर्थात् “तत” नामसे कहे जानेवाले परमात्माका ही यह सब है--इस भावसे फलको न चाहकर नाना प्रकारकी यज्ञ, तपरूप क्रियाएँ तथा दानरूप क्रियाएँ कल्याणकी इच्छावाले पुरुषोंद्वारा की जाती हैं:
tad ity anabhisaṃdhāya phalaṃ yajña-tapaḥ-kriyāḥ | dāna-kriyāś ca vividhāḥ kriyante mokṣa-kāṅkṣibhiḥ ||
Without aiming at any personal reward, seekers of liberation perform sacrifices and disciplines, and they also undertake many kinds of charitable acts—doing them in the spirit of “tat,” as an offering to the Supreme Reality rather than as a means to gain results.
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Spiritual practices—sacrifice, austerity, and charity—should be performed without attachment to results, dedicating them to the Supreme (“tat”). This purifies intention and aligns action with liberation rather than personal gain.
In the instruction on sacred utterances and their intent, the teaching explains how aspirants for liberation act: they perform ritual and ethical disciplines not for reward, but as an offering to the Absolute signified by “tat.”