Shloka 113
Adhyātma–Adhibhūta–Adhidaivata Correspondences and the Triguṇa Lakṣaṇas (Śānti-parva 301)
तेषां न तिर्यग्गमन हि दृष्टं नावग्गिति: पापकृताधिवास: । नवा प्रधाना अपि ते द्विजातयो ये ज्ञानमेतन्नपतेडनुरक्ता:
Teṣāṁ na tiryaggamanaṁ hi dṛṣṭaṁ nāvagatiḥ pāpakṛtādhivāsaḥ | Navā pradhānā api te dvijātayo ye jñānam etad anuraktāḥ, rājan ||
ビーシュマは言った。「このサーンキヤの知に心を寄せる者たちについては、死後に畜生の生へ堕ちたと見られたことはない。地獄などの下方の帰趣にも遭わず、常習の罪人の中に住まわされることもない。おお王よ、たとえ世俗の名望がなくとも、この知に執する二度生まれ（ドヴィジャ）こそ、まことにバラモンの中の最上である。」
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Devotion to Sāṅkhya/ātma-jñāna is presented as a decisive purifier: those attached to this knowledge do not fall into lower births or hellish destinies, and true brāhmaṇa-eminence is grounded in knowledge rather than mere social status.
In the Śānti Parva dialogue, Bhīṣma instructs King Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and liberation. Here he emphasizes the spiritual consequence of Sāṅkhya knowledge, contrasting the fate of the wise with the downward paths associated with sinful conduct.