Shloka 36

Vyaktāvyakta-Viveka and Nivṛtti as Paramā Gati

Manifest–Unmanifest Discrimination and the Supreme Path of Withdrawal

Devanagari script

एते भावा जगत्‌ सर्व वहन्ति सचराचरम्‌ | श्रिता विरजसं देव॑ यमाहु: प्रकृतेः परम्‌

Transliteration

ete bhāvā jagat sarva vahanti sacarācaram | śritā virajasaṃ devaṃ yam āhuḥ prakṛteḥ param ||

Translation

Бхишма сказал: «Эти основные состояния и начала поддерживают всю вселенную — всё движущееся и неподвижное. Они опираются на того безупречного, лишённого раджаса Божественного, которого мудрые называют пребывающим по ту сторону Пракрити (материальной природы)».

Word by Word

एतेthese

भावाःentities; states; principles

जगत्the world

सर्वम्entire; all

वहन्तिcarry; sustain; bear

सचराचरम्with the moving and the unmoving (all beings)

श्रिताःhaving resorted to; dependent on

विरजसम्free from rajas (passion/impurity)

देवम्the god; the divine one

यम्whom

आहुःthey say; they call

प्रकृतेःfrom/than Prakriti (primordial nature)

परम्higher; beyond; supreme

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhishma

Deva (the Divine Being)

Prakriti

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

All cosmic functions and the entire animate–inanimate world are upheld by deeper principles, yet ultimately depend upon a transcendent, rajas-free Divine reality that stands beyond material nature (Prakriti).

What is happening in the narrative?

In Shanti Parva’s instruction, Bhishma continues his philosophical exposition to Yudhishthira, explaining the metaphysical basis of the universe and pointing to a supreme principle beyond Prakriti upon which all states of existence rely.