Shloka 126
Adhyāya 284: Tapas as a Corrective to Household Attachment
Parāśara’s Instruction
त्वमेव द्वेष इच्छा च रागो मोह: क्षमाक्षमे । व्यवसायो धृतिलोंभ: कामक्रोधौ जयाजयौ
tvam eva dveṣa icchā ca rāgo mohaḥ kṣamākṣame | vyavasāyo dhṛtir lobhaḥ kāmakrodhau jayājayau ||
ビーシュマは言った。「憎しみも欲望も、執着も迷妄も、忍耐も不忍も、決意も堅忍も貪欲も、情欲も憤怒も、勝利も敗北も――それらはただ汝のみである。」
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse compresses a moral psychology: the same underlying principle (addressed as “you”) manifests as paired opposites—virtues and vices, success and failure. Ethical life therefore requires recognizing these forces within oneself and disciplining desire, anger, greed, and delusion so that resolve and forbearance support dharma.
In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma after the war. Here he speaks in a didactic mode, listing the inner drives and their opposites to explain how human behavior and moral outcomes arise from the play of passions and qualities within a person.