Shloka 33
Śrī–Indra–Bali Saṃvāda: The Departure and Fourfold Placement of Lakṣmī
अविद्यां क्षेत्रमाहुरहि कर्म बीज॑ तथा कृतम् । तृष्णा संजननं स्नेह एष तेषां पुनर्भव:,अविद्याको वे क्षेत्र कहते हैं। पूर्व-जन्मोंका किया हुआ कर्म बीज है और तृष्णा अंकुरकी उत्पत्ति करानेवाला स्नेह या जल है। यही उनके मतमें पुनर्जन्मका प्रकार है
avidyāṁ kṣetram āhur hi karma bījaṁ tathā kṛtam | tṛṣṇā sañjananaṁ sneha eṣa teṣāṁ punarbhavaḥ ||
ភីṣ្មៈបានមានព្រះវាចា៖ «ពួកគេប្រកាសថា អវិជ្ជា ជាវាល; កម្មដែលបានធ្វើ (ក្នុងជីវិតមុនៗ) ជាគ្រាប់ពូជ។ តណ្ហា គឺជាសំណើម—ជាការចងភ្ជាប់—ដែលធ្វើឲ្យពន្លកកើតឡើង។ នេះហើយជាវិធីដែលពួកគេយល់ថា សត្វទាំងឡាយកើតឡើងវិញ»។
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Rebirth is explained through an agricultural metaphor: ignorance provides the ‘field’ for bondage, past actions supply the ‘seed’ of future experience, and craving/attachment acts like ‘moisture’ that makes the seed sprout again as renewed existence. Reducing ignorance and craving is implied as the ethical-spiritual remedy.
In Shanti Parva, Bhishma instructs Yudhishthira on dharma and liberation-oriented wisdom. Here he summarizes a doctrinal account of how saṁsāra continues—linking avidyā, karma, and tṛṣṇā as the causal chain behind repeated birth.