Shloka 5
Vānaprastha-dharma and Tapas: Śiva–Umā Saṃvāda
Forest-Stage Discipline and Austerity
देवगुह्ामिदं राजन् यमेनाक्लिष्टकर्मणा । नियमस्थेन युक्तेन तपसो महतः फलम्
bhīṣma uvāca | devaguhyam idaṃ rājan yamenākliṣṭa-karmaṇā | niyama-sthena yuktena tapaso mahataḥ phalam ||
ビーシュマは言った。「王よ、これは神聖にして秘奥の教えである。行い清らかで乱れなきヤマは、自己抑制の戒に堅く住し、ヨーガの修行を規律正しく成し遂げて、深き苦行の大いなる果としてこれを得たのだ。」
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
That access to the highest, ‘divine-secret’ dharmic knowledge is not merely intellectual but is earned through purity of action, firm observance of self-restraint (niyama), disciplined yogic steadiness, and sustained tapas—whose ‘fruit’ is spiritual attainment.
Bhishma, instructing the king, introduces an esoteric doctrine and legitimizes it by tracing its origin to Yama, who attained this secret through great austerity and disciplined observance, thereby presenting it as authoritative and ethically grounded.