Shloka 213

Bhīṣma’s Śara-śayyā Stuti to Vāsudeva and Yogic Preparation for Dehotsarga

Body-Relinquishment

Devanagari script

गुणभूतानि भूतेशे सूत्रे मणिगणा इव । उन्हींमें सम्पूर्ण प्राणी स्थित हैं और उन्हींमें उनका लय होता है। जैसे डोरेमें मनके पिरोये होते हैं

Transliteration

bhīṣma uvāca | guṇabhūtāni bhūteśe sūtre maṇigaṇā iva |

Translation

ಭೀಷ್ಮನು ಹೇಳಿದರು—ಗುಣಗಳಿಂದ ರೂಪುಗೊಂಡ ಸಮಸ್ತ ಜೀವಿಗಳು ಭೂತೇಶ್ವರ ಪರಮಾತ್ಮನಲ್ಲಿ ದಾರದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಣಿಗಳ ಗುಚ್ಛದಂತೆ ಪಿರಿದಿವೆ. ಅವನಲ್ಲೇ ಅವು ನೆಲೆಸುತ್ತವೆ, ಅಂತ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಅವನಲ್ಲೇ ಲೀನವಾಗುತ್ತವೆ.

Word by Word

• गुणभूतानि: having become subordinate/secondary (as qualities)
• गुणभूतानि: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: गुणभूत
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• भूतेशे: in the Lord of beings
• भूतेशे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भूतेश
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• सूत्रे: in/on a thread
• सूत्रे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सूत्र
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• मणिगणाः: groups/strings of gems (beads)
• मणिगणाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मणिगण
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• इव: like, as if
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• Bhūteśa (Lord of beings)
• Sūtra (thread)
• Maṇi-gaṇa (beads/gems)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The many guṇa-formed beings depend upon and are sustained by the one Supreme Lord (Bhūteśa), just as beads depend on a thread; all existence rests in that Reality and ultimately returns to it.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction section, Bhishma continues his philosophical counsel, using a vivid simile (beads on a thread) to explain how all creatures are held together by the Supreme and how their origin, support, and dissolution are in Him.