Shloka 21
Jñāna-yoga and Karma-phala: Manu–Bṛhaspati on Akṣara and the Limits of Mantra
सायं प्रातश्न विप्राणां पूजनं च यथाविधि । पण्यानां शोभते पण्यं कृषीणां बाद्यते कृषि:
sāyaṃ prātaś ca viprāṇāṃ pūjanaṃ ca yathāvidhi | paṇyānāṃ śobhate paṇyaṃ kṛṣīṇāṃ bādhyate kṛṣiḥ ||
Wika ni Bhīṣma: “Sa dapithapon at muli sa umaga, ang wastong paggalang sa mga brāhmaṇa ay dapat isagawa ayon sa tuntunin. Ang kalakalan ay umuunlad sa pamamagitan ng maayos na kalakalan, at ang pagsasaka ay nananatili sa pamamagitan ng masipag na pagbubungkal. Sa gayon, natutupad ng bawat isa ang kanyang dharma sa tapat na pagtupad sa nararapat na tungkulin ng kanyang kalagayan at kabuhayan.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Dharma is upheld through regular, rule-based reverence to the learned (brāhmaṇas) and through conscientious performance of one’s own livelihood-duties: commerce flourishes by proper commerce, and farming endures by steady cultivation.
In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira on righteous conduct after the war. Here he emphasizes daily discipline and social order: honoring brāhmaṇas at prescribed times and performing one’s occupational duties so society remains stable and prosperous.