Shloka 7
Sanatsujāta–Dhṛtarāṣṭra Saṃvāda: Brahmacarya and the Formless Brahman
Udyoga Parva 44
दमस्त्यागो<थाप्रमाद इत्येतेष्वमृतं स्थितम् । एतानि ब्रद्ममुख्यानां ब्राह्मणानां मनीषिणाम्
damas tyāgo 'thāpramāda ity eteṣv amṛtaṁ sthitam | etāni brahmamukhyānāṁ brāhmaṇānāṁ manīṣiṇām ||
सनत्सुजात म्हणाला—इंद्रियनिग्रह, त्याग आणि अप्रमाद—यांतच अमृताची स्थिती आहे. ज्यांचे परम ध्येय ब्रह्म आहे, त्या विवेकी ब्राह्मणांचे हेच मुख्य साधन आहे.
सनत्युजात उवाच
Educational Q&A
Immortality (amṛta)—understood as the imperishable spiritual attainment—is approached through three disciplines: dama (self-restraint), tyāga (renunciation), and apramāda (unceasing vigilance, the opposite of heedlessness). For seekers whose highest goal is Brahman, these are presented as principal means.
In Udyoga Parva, Sanatsujāta instructs on profound ethical and spiritual principles in the midst of the political crisis leading to war. Here he emphasizes inner discipline—control, renunciation, and alertness—as the path to the deathless state, redirecting attention from external conflict to the foundations of liberation.