Shloka 14
उपदेशदोषप्रसङ्गः (Upadeśa-doṣa-prasaṅgaḥ) — The Risk of Misapplied Counsel
भवत्प्रसादादिच्छामि धर्म वक्तुं द्विजर्षभ । तन्मां त्वं भगवन् वक्तुं प्रत्राजयितुमरहसि
bhavatprasādād icchāmi dharmaṁ vaktuṁ dvijarṣabha | tan māṁ tvaṁ bhagavan vaktuṁ pravrājayitum arhasi ||
ಓ ದ್ವಿಜಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠ! ನಿಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರಸಾದದಿಂದ ನಾನು ಧರ್ಮವನ್ನು ಹೇಳುವ ಯೋಗ್ಯತೆಯನ್ನು ಬಯಸುತ್ತೇನೆ; ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ, ಓ ಭಗವನ್, ನನಗೆ ವಿಧಿಪೂರ್ವಕ ಪ್ರವ್ರಜ್ಯಾ (ಸನ್ಯಾಸದೀಕ್ಷೆ) ನೀಡಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಲು ಅಧಿಕಾರ ನೀಡಿರಿ।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Dharma should be taught with humility, proper authorization, and inner discipline; Bhishma seeks the sanction of a revered Brahmin/teacher and asks for formal renunciant initiation so that his exposition of dharma is grounded in spiritual legitimacy rather than mere personal opinion.
In the Anushasana Parva’s instruction-setting, Bhishma addresses a revered twice-born authority, stating that by the latter’s grace he wishes to expound dharma, and requests to be formally admitted into the renunciant state (pravrajyā) as a fitting prelude to delivering religious-ethical instruction.