Shloka 37
Adhyāya 270 — Yudhiṣṭhira’s inquiry on saṃnyāsa; Bhīṣma on calculable time, tamas, and karma
Vṛtra–Uśanā exemplum begins
धर्मे च श्रद्धधानस्य तपस्युग्रे च वर्तत: । कालेन महता तस्य दिव्या दृष्टिरजायत
dharme ca śraddadhānasya tapasy ugre ca vartataḥ | kālena mahatā tasya divyā dṛṣṭir ajāyata ||
ధర్మంలో అచంచల శ్రద్ధతో, ఘోర తపస్సులో నిరంతరం నిమగ్నుడై ఉన్న అతనికి దీర్ఘకాలానంతరం దివ్యదృష్టి కలిగింది।
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Steady faith in dharma, sustained through intense self-discipline over time, matures into higher spiritual perception—divine insight is presented as the fruit of long, ethical, and ascetic perseverance.
Bhīṣma describes a practitioner who continues firmly in righteousness and severe austerity; after a long period, that person attains divya-dṛṣṭi—an elevated, divine mode of seeing/knowing.