Shanti Parva Adhyaya 47 Shloka 53 - Mahabharata | Russian | Vedapath

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Shloka 53

Bhīṣma’s Śara-śayyā Stuti to Vāsudeva and Yogic Preparation for Dehotsarga

Body-Relinquishment

Devanagari script

यं च व्यक्तस्थमव्यक्त विचिन्वन्ति महर्षय: । क्षेत्रे क्षेत्रज्ममासीनं तस्मै क्षेत्रात्मने नम:

Transliteration

yaṃ ca vyaktastham avyaktam vicinvanti maharṣayaḥ | kṣetre kṣetrajñam āsīnaṃ tasmai kṣetrātmane namaḥ ||

Translation

Бхишма сказал: Поклонение Высшему Я, которое, будучи непроявленным, пребывает в проявленном мире; чью истинную сущность великие риши непрестанно стремятся постичь; и которое в каждом поле опыта восседает как Знающий поле—почтение тому Я, что есть душа всех полей.

Word by Word

यम्whom

चand

व्यक्तस्थम्situated in the manifest (state)

अव्यक्तम्unmanifest

विचिन्वन्तिthey investigate, seek out

महर्षयःgreat sages

क्षेत्रेin the field (body/realm)

क्षेत्रज्ञम्the knower of the field

आसीनम्seated, abiding

तस्मैto him

क्षेत्रात्मनेto the Self as the field (i.e., the supreme Self related to the field)

नमःsalutation

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhishma

Maharishis (great sages)

Kshetra (the field)

Kshetrajna (knower of the field)

Paramatman (implied Supreme Self)

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?

The verse venerates the Supreme as the inner Knower (kṣetrajña) present in every ‘field’ (kṣetra)—the manifest world and embodied experience—while remaining essentially unmanifest; true wisdom is to seek and recognize this indwelling consciousness.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Shanti Parva’s instruction on peace and right understanding, Bhishma offers a reverential statement that frames ethical life and dharma as grounded in insight into the inner Self/Paramatman, whom sages investigate and whom one should honor.