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:
avidyāṁ kṣetram āhur hi karma bījaṁ tathā kṛtam | tṛṣṇā sañjananaṁ sneha eṣa teṣāṁ punarbhavaḥ ||
ພີສະມະກ່າວວ່າ: «ເຂົາເຈົ້າກ່າວວ່າ ອະວິຊາແມ່ນນາ; ກຳທີ່ເຮັດໄວ້ (ໃນຊາດກ່ອນ) ແມ່ນເມັດ. ຕັນຫາແມ່ນຄວາມຊຸ່ມ—ຄວາມຍຶດຕິດ—ທີ່ເຮັດໃຫ້ງອກອອກ. ນີ້ແມ່ນກົນໄກຂອງການເກີດໃໝ່ຕາມທັດສະນະຂອງເຂົາເຈົ້າ»។
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.