Mahabharata 6.26.25 — Bhishma Parva, Adhyaya 26, Shloka 25
कर्मयोग–ज्ञानयज्ञ–अवतारोपदेश
Karma-Yoga, Jñāna-Yajña, and Avatāra Instruction
भीष्मपर्वणि तु पञ्चविंशो5ध्याय:ः
avyakto ’yam acintyo ’yam avikāryo ’yam ucyate | tasmād evaṁ viditvainaṁ nānuśocitum arhasi ||
Sañjaya berkata: “Diri ini dikatakan tidak termanifest (avyakta), melampaui jangkauan fikiran, dan tidak mengalami perubahan. Maka, setelah mengetahuinya demikian, engkau tidak patut berdukacita kerananya.” Dalam latar etika di medan perang, ajaran ini mengalihkan Arjuna daripada kesedihan yang berpunca pada kehilangan jasad kepada keteguhan yang berasaskan sifat Diri yang tidak binasa, serta menyeru kejernihan tugas tanpa runtuhnya batin.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The Self (Ātman) is unmanifest, inconceivable, and unchangeable; therefore grief based on the idea of its destruction is misplaced. Right understanding steadies the mind and supports righteous action without despair.
Within the Bhīṣma Parva’s battlefield discourse, Sanjaya reports the teaching that reframes Arjuna’s sorrow: the true Self is not altered by death or change, so lamentation is not warranted.
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