Shloka 3
Abhimanyu’s Assault on Bhīṣma’s Screen; Banner-Felling and Reinforcements (सौभद्र-भीष्म-समरः)
सत्त्वानुरूपा सर्वस्य श्रद्धा भवति भारत | श्रद्धामयो<यं पुरुषो यो यच्छुद्ध: स एव सः
sattvānurūpā sarvasya śraddhā bhavati bhārata | śraddhāmayo 'yaṃ puruṣo yo yac-chraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ ||
Arjuna said: “O Bhārata, each person’s faith takes the shape of their own inner disposition. A human being is, in truth, made of faith; whatever one’s faith is, that indeed is what one becomes.”
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Faith is not merely an opinion but a formative inner force shaped by one’s disposition; because a person is ‘made of faith,’ the quality and object of one’s faith directly molds one’s character and destiny.
In the Bhīṣma Parva’s Bhagavadgītā dialogue on the battlefield, Arjuna speaks to Kṛṣṇa, articulating a principle about how individual faith aligns with inner nature and determines what a person becomes.