Shloka 70
श्रेयो-धर्मकर्मविचारः
Inquiry into Śreyas, Dharma, and Karma
प्रजाविसर्ग च सुखेन काले प्रत्येत्य देवेषु सुखानि भुक्त्वा । सुखेन संयास्यथ सिद्धसंख्यां मा वो भयं भूद् विमला: स्थ सर्वे
prajāvisargaṃ ca sukhena kāle pratyetya deveṣu sukhāni bhuktvā | sukhena saṃnyāsyatha siddhasaṃkhyāṃ mā vo bhayaṃ bhūd vimalāḥ stha sarve ||
भीष्म म्हणाला—तुम्ही सर्वजण योग्य काळी सुखाने संतती उत्पन्न करून, येथून प्रस्थान करून देवलोकांत जाऊन दिव्य सुखांचा उपभोग घ्याल. त्यानंतर सुखपूर्वक संन्यास घेऊन सिद्धी प्राप्त करून सिद्धांमध्ये गणले जाल. तुमच्या मनात भय नको; तुम्ही सर्व निर्मळ व निष्पाप आहात।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhishma affirms a dharmic life-sequence: fulfill household responsibilities (including procreation) at the proper time, attain heavenly results through merit, and ultimately move toward renunciation and spiritual perfection—therefore the listeners should be free of fear because their conduct is pure.
In Shanti Parva, Bhishma is instructing and consoling his audience with a promise of auspicious outcomes: they will live rightly, reach the gods’ realms, and later attain the status of Siddhas; he explicitly removes their anxiety by declaring them stainless and sinless.