Shloka 41
स स्थावरं जड़म॑ चैवमेत- च्चतुर्विधं लोकमिमं च कृत्वा । ततो भूमिं व्यद्धात् पज्चबीजां द्यौ: पृथिव्यां धास्यति भूरि वारि
sa sthāvaraṁ jaḍaṁ caivam etac caturvidhaṁ lokam imaṁ ca kṛtvā | tato bhūmiṁ vyadhāt pañcabījāṁ dyauḥ pṛthivyāṁ dhāsyati bhūri vāri ||
Wika ni Bhīṣma: Matapos Niyang likhain ang daigdig na ito sa apat na kaayusan ng buhay, kabilang ang di-gumagalaw at ang walang-malay, saka Niya hinubog ang lupa bilang lupang-binhi ng limang sanhi. At nang Siya’y maging kalangitan, ibinuhos Niya ang saganang tubig sa lupa, upang mapanatili ang paglikha at magpatuloy ang mga nilalang sa mga itinakdang landas ng kanilang mga gawa.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents creation as an ordered, sustaining system: the creator establishes categories of beings and the earth as a causal ‘seed-ground,’ then sustains life through rain from the sky. Ethically, it implies that dharma aligns with maintaining cosmic order—supporting life, fulfilling one’s role, and respecting the interdependence of beings and natural processes.
Bhīṣma is describing how the creator first brings forth the world with its fourfold living orders (along with immobile/insentient aspects), then establishes the earth as the basis for five causal ‘seeds’ (often interpreted as elemental or generative principles), and finally, as the sky, provides abundant water through rainfall to sustain the created world.