Shloka 24
ये वै शुक्रगतिं विद्युर्भूतसंकरकारिकाम् । विरागा दग्धदोषास्ते नाप्नुयुर्देहसम्भवम्,जो यह जानते हैं कि वीर्यकी गति ही सम्पूर्ण प्राणियोंमें वर्णसंकरता उत्पन्न करनेवाली है, वे विरक्त हो अपने सारे दोषोंको भस्म कर डालते हैं; इसलिये वे पुनः देहके बन्धनमें नहीं पड़ते
ye vai śukragatiṁ vidyur bhūtasaṅkarakārikām | virāgā dagdhadoṣās te nāpnuyur dehasambhavam ||
ये वै शुक्रगतिं विद्युर्भूतसंकरकारिकाम् । विरागा दग्धदोषास्ते नाप्नुयुर्देहसम्भवम् ॥
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Insight into sexual impulse and procreation as binding forces leads to dispassion (virāga). Through detachment and inner purification (burning doṣas), one avoids further embodiment—i.e., does not return to bodily birth.
In Bhishma’s instruction in the Śānti Parva, he presents an ascetic-ethical point: those who understand the binding consequences of generative desire turn away from it, purify themselves, and thereby escape repeated birth.