Shloka 24
Adhyāya 214: Tapas Redefined—Perpetual Discipline, Hospitality, and the Ethics of Eating (तपः-निरूपणम्, विघसाशी-अतिथिप्रिय-धर्मः)
ये वै शुक्रगतिं विद्युर्भूतसंकरकारिकाम् । विरागा दग्धदोषास्ते नाप्नुयुर्देहसम्भवम्
ye vai śukragatiṁ vidyur bhūtasaṅkarakārikām | virāgā dagdhadoṣās te nāpnuyur dehasambhavam ||
ビーシュマは言った。「精（しゅく羅）の行き道こそが、有身の衆生に混淆と錯乱を生じさせる因であると真に知る者は、離欲して執着を離れる。かくして諸々の過失を焼き尽くした者は、再び身を受ける生の束縛に堕ちることはない。」
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Insight into sexual impulse and procreation as binding forces leads to dispassion (virāga). Through detachment and inner purification (burning doṣas), one avoids further embodiment—i.e., does not return to bodily birth.
In Bhishma’s instruction in the Śānti Parva, he presents an ascetic-ethical point: those who understand the binding consequences of generative desire turn away from it, purify themselves, and thereby escape repeated birth.