Shloka 2

Devanagari script

भीष्म उवाच मोक्षधर्मेषु निरतो लघ्वाहारो जितेन्द्रिय: । प्राप्रोति परमं स्थान यत्‌ परं प्रकृतेर्धुवम्‌,भीष्मजीने कहा--राजन! जो पुरुष मोक्षधर्मोमें तत्पर, मिताहारी और जितेन्द्रिय होता है, वह उस प्रकृतिसे परे परब्रह्म परमात्माका जो अविनाशी परमधाम है, उसे प्राप्त कर लेता है

Transliteration

bhīṣma uvāca | mokṣadharmeṣu nirato laghvāhāro jitendriyaḥ | prāpnoti paramaṃ sthānaṃ yat paraṃ prakṛter dhruvam ||

Translation

ビーシュマは言った。「王よ、解脱の法（モークシャ・ダルマ）に励み、食を節し、感官を制した者は、物質的自然（プラクリティ）を超えた、不滅の最高の住処に到達する。」

Word by Word

भीष्मःBhishma

उवाचsaid

मोक्षधर्मेषुin the disciplines/duties of liberation

निरतःengaged, devoted

लघ्वाहारःmoderate in food, light-eating

जितेन्द्रियःone who has conquered the senses

प्राप्नोतिattains

परमम्supreme

स्थानम्abode, state

यत्which

परम्beyond, higher

प्रकृतेःof Prakriti (nature)

ध्रुवम्fixed, eternal

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhishma (Bhīṣma)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Liberation is attained through steady commitment to moksha-oriented dharma: moderation in food (laghvāhāra) and mastery over the senses (jitendriya). Such inner discipline leads to the imperishable supreme state beyond prakṛti.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Shanti Parva’s Mokshadharma discourse, Bhishma instructs the king on the means to the highest good, emphasizing ascetic restraint and sense-control as qualifications for reaching the transcendent, deathless abode.