Shloka 110

Adhyātma–Adhibhūta–Adhidaivata Correspondences and the Triguṇa Lakṣaṇas (Śānti-parva 301)

Devanagari script

शमश्न दृष्ट: परमं बल॑ च ज्ञानं च सूक्ष्मं च यथावदुक्तम्‌ | तपांसि सूक्ष्माणि सुखानि चैव सांख्ये यथावद्‌ विहितानि राजन्‌

Transliteration

śamaś ca dṛṣṭaḥ paramaṃ balaṃ ca jñānaṃ ca sūkṣmaṃ ca yathāvad uktam | tapāṃsi sūkṣmāṇi sukhāni caiva sāṅkhye yathāvad vihitāni rājan ||

Translation

ビーシュマは言った。「王よ、サーンキヤの教えには、これらが正確に、しかも順序立てて説かれている。すなわち、直に得られる内なる明澄、心と諸感官の制御、最上の力、微妙なる分別智、そしてついには安寧へと結実する精妙な苦行である。これらすべてが、そこに過不足なく定められている。」

Word by Word

• {'śamaḥ': 'calmness

• pacification of the mind', 'dṛṣṭaḥ': 'seen

• directly perceived', 'paramam': 'supreme

• highest', 'balam': 'strength

• steadiness', 'jñānam': 'knowledge

• insight', 'sūkṣmam': 'subtle

• difficult to perceive', 'yathāvat': 'as it truly is

• in due manner', 'uktam': 'said

• explained', 'tapāṃsi': 'austerities

• ascetic practices', 'sūkṣmāṇi': 'subtle (austerities)

• inward and refined disciplines', 'sukhāni': 'happiness

• that which yields ease/benefit', 'caiva': 'and indeed

• and also', 'sāṅkhye': 'in Sāṅkhya

• in the Sāṅkhya system/teaching', 'vihitāni': 'prescribed

• arranged/expounded', 'rājan': 'O King (vocative)'}

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• rājan (the King, i.e., Yudhiṣṭhira)
• Sāṅkhya

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Bhīṣma emphasizes that Sāṅkhya systematically teaches inner calm (śama), disciplined restraint of mind and senses, subtle discriminative knowledge, and refined austerities that lead to lasting well-being—presenting them in a correct and ordered way.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs King Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and liberation-oriented disciplines; here he points Yudhiṣṭhira to Sāṅkhya as an authoritative framework that already lays out these practices and insights precisely.