Shloka 110

Devanagari script

शमश्न दृष्ट: परमं बल॑ च ज्ञानं च सूक्ष्मं च यथावदुक्तम्‌ | तपांसि सूक्ष्माणि सुखानि चैव सांख्ये यथावद्‌ विहितानि राजन्‌,राजन! प्रत्यक्ष प्राप्त मन और इन्द्रियोंका संयम, उत्तम बल, सूक्ष्मज्ञान तथा परिणाममें सुख देनेवाले जो सूक्ष्म तप बतलाये गये हैं, उन सबका सांख्यशास्त्रमें यथावत्‌ वर्णन किया गया है

Transliteration

śamaś ca dṛṣṭaḥ paramaṃ balaṃ ca jñānaṃ ca sūkṣmaṃ ca yathāvad uktam | tapāṃsi sūkṣmāṇi sukhāni caiva sāṅkhye yathāvad vihitāni rājan ||

Translation

Bhīṣma berkata: “Wahai raja, dalam ajaran Sāṅkhya terdapat huraian yang tepat dan tersusun tentang hal-hal ini: pencapaian kejernihan batin secara langsung, pengekangan minda dan pancaindera, kekuatan tertinggi, pengetahuan pembezaan yang halus, serta tapa yang halus yang akhirnya membawa kesejahteraan. Semuanya telah dihuraikan di sana dengan tertib dan tepat.”

Word by Word

• {'śamaḥ': 'calmness

• pacification of the mind', 'dṛṣṭaḥ': 'seen

• directly perceived', 'paramam': 'supreme

• highest', 'balam': 'strength

• steadiness', 'jñānam': 'knowledge

• insight', 'sūkṣmam': 'subtle

• difficult to perceive', 'yathāvat': 'as it truly is

• in due manner', 'uktam': 'said

• explained', 'tapāṃsi': 'austerities

• ascetic practices', 'sūkṣmāṇi': 'subtle (austerities)

• inward and refined disciplines', 'sukhāni': 'happiness

• that which yields ease/benefit', 'caiva': 'and indeed

• and also', 'sāṅkhye': 'in Sāṅkhya

• in the Sāṅkhya system/teaching', 'vihitāni': 'prescribed

• arranged/expounded', 'rājan': 'O King (vocative)'}

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• rājan (the King, i.e., Yudhiṣṭhira)
• Sāṅkhya

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Bhīṣma emphasizes that Sāṅkhya systematically teaches inner calm (śama), disciplined restraint of mind and senses, subtle discriminative knowledge, and refined austerities that lead to lasting well-being—presenting them in a correct and ordered way.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs King Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and liberation-oriented disciplines; here he points Yudhiṣṭhira to Sāṅkhya as an authoritative framework that already lays out these practices and insights precisely.