Shloka 46
Vyaktāvyakta-Viveka and Nivṛtti as Paramā Gati
Manifest–Unmanifest Discrimination and the Supreme Path of Withdrawal
स तु देहाद् यथा देहं त्यक्त्वान्यं प्रतिपद्यते । तथान्यं सम्प्रवक्ष्यामि भूतग्रामं स्वकर्मजम्
sa tu dehād yathā dehaṁ tyaktvānyaṁ pratipadyate | tathānyaṁ sampravakṣyāmi bhūtagrāmaṁ svakarmajam ||
Bhishma disse: “Assim como o eu encarnado, deixando um corpo, alcança outro, assim também te explicarei como a multidão de seres vivos—gerada de acordo com os próprios atos—vem a assumir outra encarnação.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches transmigration: the embodied self leaves one body and takes another, and embodiment occurs in accordance with one’s own karma; moral causality governs the conditions of rebirth.
In the Shanti Parva’s instruction on dharma and liberation-oriented topics, Bhishma continues his discourse, announcing that he will explain how beings, shaped by their actions, come to assume new bodies after leaving the old.