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Shloka 5

Haṃsa–Sādhya Saṃvāda: Satya, Dama, Kṣamā and the Discipline of Speech

सुखं मोक्षसुखं लोके न च मूढो5वगच्छति । प्रसक्त: पुत्रपशुषु धनधान्यसमाकुल:,“सगर! संसारमें मोक्षका सुख ही वास्तविक सुख है, परंतु जो धनधान्यके उपार्जनमें व्यग्र तथा पुत्र और पशुओंमें आसक्त है, उस मूढ़ मनुष्यको उसका यथार्थ ज्ञान नहीं होता”

sukhaṁ mokṣa-sukhaṁ loke na ca mūḍho ’vagacchati | prasaktaḥ putra-paśuṣu dhana-dhānya-samākulaḥ ||

భీష్ముడు పలికెను—ఈ లోకంలో మోక్షసుఖమే నిజమైన సుఖం; కాని మోహగ్రస్తుడు దానిని గ్రహించడు. పుత్రపశువులపై ఆసక్తితో, ధనధాన్య సముపార్జనలో చిక్కుకున్నవానికి ఆ సత్యం తెలియదు.

सुखम्happiness
सुखम्:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootसुख
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
मोक्षसुखम्the happiness of liberation
मोक्षसुखम्:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootमोक्षसुख
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
लोकेin the world
लोके:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootलोक
FormMasculine, Locative, Singular
not
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
and
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
मूढःa deluded (person)
मूढः:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootमूढ
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
अवगच्छतिunderstands, realizes
अवगच्छति:
TypeVerb
Rootअव + गम्
FormPresent, Third, Singular, Parasmaipada
प्रसक्तःattached, engrossed
प्रसक्तः:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootप्रसक्त
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
पुत्रपशुषुin sons and cattle/animals
पुत्रपशुषु:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootपुत्रपशु
FormMasculine, Locative, Plural
धनधान्यसमाकुलःfilled/overwhelmed with wealth and grain
धनधान्यसमाकुलः:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootधनधान्यसमाकुल
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular

भीष्म उवाच

B
Bhishma

Educational Q&A

Liberation (mokṣa) is presented as the only genuinely reliable happiness; worldly attachments—especially to wealth, provisions, children, and livestock—cloud discernment and prevent one from recognizing that higher good.

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and the path beyond suffering, Bhishma continues advising the listener by contrasting transient household-centered preoccupations with the superior, enduring happiness of mokṣa.