Shloka 6
Abhimanyu’s Assault on Bhīṣma’s Screen; Banner-Felling and Reinforcements (सौभद्र-भीष्म-समरः)
कर्षयन्त: शरीरस्थं भूतग्राममचेतस:7 । मां चैवान्त:शरीरस्थं तान् विद्धयासुरनिश्चयान्
karṣayantaḥ śarīrasthaṁ bhūtagrāmam acetasaḥ | māṁ caivāntaḥśarīrasthaṁ tān viddhy āsuranīścayān ||
जे अचेत लोक शरीरात स्थित भूतसमुदायाला कष्ट देतात आणि अंतःशरीरात स्थित मला—अंतर्यामीला—ही पीडा देतात, त्यांना तू आसुरी निश्चयाचे समज.
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Austerities that injure the body and its living constituents are condemned as ignorant and ‘āsuric’ because they violate ethical restraint and fail to honor the divine Self present within all embodied life.
In the teaching on faith and austerity, the speaker criticizes misguided ascetic practices: people who, lacking discernment, punish the body and thereby also ‘afflict’ the indwelling Lord are identified as having a demonic, unrighteous resolve.