Shloka 17
Vimokṣa-niścaya: Pañcaśikha’s Analysis of Aggregates, Guṇas, and Tyāga (मोक्षनिर्णयः)
उदारचित्त पुरुष सत्य, शौच, सरलता, त्याग, तेज, पराक्रम, क्षमा, धैर्य, बुद्धि, मन और तपके प्रभावसे समस्त विषयात्मक भावोंपर आलोचनात्मक दृष्टि रखते हुए शान्तिकी इच्छासे अपनी इन्द्रियोंको संयममें रखे ।।
udāracittaḥ puruṣaḥ satyaśauca-saralatā-tyāga-tejaḥ-parākrama-kṣamā-dhairya-buddhi-manas-tapaḥ-prabhāvāt samasta-viṣayātmaka-bhāveṣu ālocanātmikāṃ dṛṣṭiṃ kṛtvā śānti-kāmaḥ svendriyāṇi saṃyame niveśayet || sattvena rajasā caiva tamasā caiva mohitāḥ | cakravat parivartante hṛjñānāj jantavo bhūśam ||
Wika ni Bhishma: Ang taong marangal ang loob, na pinatitibay ng katotohanan, kalinisan, pagiging tuwid, pagtalikod, sigla, kagitingan, pagpapatawad, katatagan, karunungan, disiplinadong isip, at pag-aayuno at pagninilay (tapas), ay dapat tumingin nang mapanuri sa lahat ng udyok na isinilang ng mga pandama; at sa pagnanais ng kapayapaan, pigilin ang mga pandama. Sapagkat ang mga nilalang, nalilinlang ng sattva, rajas, at tamas, ay patuloy na umiikot na parang gulong, na malakas na itinutulak ng panloob na pag-unawa ng isip at ng mga pagkalito nito.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Cultivate inner virtues (truth, purity, simplicity, renunciation, vigor, forgiveness, steadiness, discernment) and use them to examine sense-impulses critically; then restrain the senses for the sake of peace. Otherwise, beings remain trapped in cyclical fluctuation under the influence of the three guṇas.
In the Śānti Parva instruction, Bhīṣma continues advising on the path to peace and liberation: he prescribes ethical and psychological disciplines and explains how the guṇas (sattva, rajas, tamas) keep creatures revolving in recurring patterns unless checked by discernment and self-restraint.