Shloka 54
श्रेयो-धर्मकर्मविचारः
Inquiry into Śreyas, Dharma, and Karma
स यावदेवास्ति सशेषभुक् ते प्रजाश्न देव्या च तथैव शुक्ले । तावत् तदज्लेषु विशुद्धभाव: संयम्य पज्चेन्द्रियरूपमेतत्
sa yāvad evāsti saśeṣabhuk te prajāśna devyā ca tathaiva śukle | tāvat tad-ajñeṣu viśuddhabhāvaḥ saṁyamya pañcendriyarūpam etat ||
ಭೀಷ್ಮನು ಹೇಳಿದನು— ವಿಶುದ್ಧಭಾವ ಹೊಂದಿದ ಆ ಸಿದ್ಧಪುರುಷನು ಶೇಷ ಪ್ರಾರಬ್ಧಕರ್ಮಫಲವನ್ನು ಅನುಭವಿಸುವವರೆಗೂ, ಪಂಚೇಂದ್ರಿಯರೂಪವಾದ ಈ ಕರಣಸಮೂಹವನ್ನು ಸಂಯಮದಲ್ಲಿಡುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಆ ಅವಧಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅವನ ದೇಹದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಂದ್ರಿಯಗಳ ಅಧಿಷ್ಠಾತೃ ದೇವತೆಗಳೂ, ಅಪರ ಮತ್ತು ಪರಾ—ಎರಡೂ ವಿದ್ಯೆಗಳ ಶಕ್ತಿಗಳೂ ವಾಸಿಸುತ್ತವೆ.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even a purified, perfected person may continue in a body due to residual (prārabdha) karma; during this period, liberation is safeguarded by strict restraint of the five-sense apparatus, while the powers of knowledge (lower and higher) remain present and operative without bondage.
In Bhishma’s instruction in the Shanti Parva, he describes the condition of a siddha/viśuddhabhāva person: though still living and undergoing the remainder of past karma, he keeps the senses under control; the presiding deities of the senses and the capacities of knowledge are said to reside in his embodied state until that remainder is spent.