Shloka 14
इन्द्र–बलि संवादः
The Dialogue of Indra and Bali on Fortune, Humility, and Restraint
मनस्यन्तर्तहितं द्वारं देहमास्थाय मानुषम् । यद् यत् सदसदव्यक्तं स्वपित्यस्मिन्निदर्शनम् । सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्थं तमध्यात्मगुणं विदुः
manasy antarhitaṃ dvāraṃ deham āsthāya mānuṣam | yad yat sadasad avyaktaṃ svapity asmin nidarśanam | sarvabhūtātma-bhūtasthaṃ tam adhyātma-guṇaṃ viduḥ |
ಸ್ವಪ್ನದರ್ಶನಕ್ಕೆ ದ್ವಾರವಾಗಿರುವ ಸ್ಥೂಲ ಮಾನವದೇಹವು ಸುಷುಪ್ತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮನಸ್ಸಿನೊಳಗೆ ಲೀನವಾಗಿ ಅಡಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಅದೇ ದೇಹವನ್ನು ಆಶ್ರಯಿಸಿ ಮನಸ್ಸು ಸ್ವಪ್ನದರ್ಶನದಲ್ಲಿ ಸತ್-ಅಸತ್ಗಳಿಗೆ ಅತೀತವಾದ ಅವ್ಯಕ್ತ ತತ್ತ್ವವನ್ನು, ಸಾಕ್ಷಿಭೂತ ಆತ್ಮವನ್ನು ಅನುಭವಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಆ ಆತ್ಮವೇ ಸಮಸ್ತ ಭೂತಗಳ ಆತ್ಮ; ಜ್ಞಾನಿಗಳು ಅದನ್ನು ಅಧ್ಯಾತ್ಮಗುಣಯುಕ್ತವೆಂದು ತಿಳಿಯುತ್ತಾರೆ.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse points to the Self as the unmanifest reality that transcends categories of being and non-being, present within all beings. Sleep/dream is used as an analogy to show how the mind withdraws and yet ‘encounters’ a deeper principle recognized by the wise as adhyātma (inner spiritual reality).
In Bhishma’s instruction in the Shanti Parva, he explains an inner process of consciousness: the mind, relying on the human body as its ‘gateway,’ withdraws in sleep, and this condition becomes a teaching-example (nidarśana) for understanding the all-pervading Self that abides in every creature.