Shloka 18
Brahmacarya-Upāya: Jñāna, Śauca, and the Mind’s Role in Desire (शान्ति पर्व, अध्याय २०७)
मरीचि: कश्यपं तात पुत्रमग्रजमग्रज: । मानसं जनयामास तैजसं ब्रह्मवित्तमम्
Marīciḥ Kaśyapaṃ tāta putram agrajam agrajaḥ | mānasaṃ janayāmāsa taijasaṃ brahmavittamam ||
ਭੀਸ਼ਮ ਨੇ ਕਿਹਾ: ਪਿਆਰੇ ਤਾਤ! ਅਗਰਜ ਰਿਸ਼ੀਆਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਜੇਠੇ ਮਰੀਚੀ ਨੇ ਕੇਵਲ ਮਨ ਦੀ ਸ਼ਕਤੀ ਨਾਲ ਕਸ਼੍ਯਪ ਨਾਮ ਦਾ ਪੁੱਤਰ ਉਤਪੰਨ ਕੀਤਾ—ਜੋ ਤੇਜਸਵੀ ਅਤੇ ਬ੍ਰਹਮ-ਵੇਤਿਆਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਸ਼੍ਰੇਸ਼ਠ ਸੀ।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the primacy of spiritual knowledge and inner power: Kaśyapa is praised as brahmavittama (foremost knower of Brahman), and his origin as mānasa (mind-born) underscores creation through tapas, purity, and concentrated consciousness rather than merely physical generation.
Bhīṣma is recounting a genealogical-cosmic lineage: among the primeval sages, Marīci is presented as senior, and he produces a distinguished son, Kaśyapa, described as radiant and supreme among Brahman-knowers—setting up the broader account of progenitors and the origins of beings.