Shloka 25
Prahlāda–Indra Saṃvāda: Kartṛtva (Agency) and Svabhāva (Nature) in the Causation of Karma
साधन आरम्भ कर देनेपर उसे बीचमें न रोके। जैसे आग धीरे-धीरे तेज की जाती है, उसी प्रकार ज्ञानके साधनको शनैः-शनै: उद्दीपित करे। ऐसा करनेसे ज्ञान सूर्यके समान प्रकाशित होने लगता है ।।
sādhanaṃ ārambhaṃ kṛtvā madhye na nivārayet | yathā agniḥ śanaiḥ-śanaiḥ tīvraḥ kriyate tathā jñānasya sādhanam api śanaiḥ-śanaiḥ uddīpayet | evaṃ kṛte jñānaṃ sūryavat prakāśate || jñānādhiṣṭhānam ajñānaṃ trīṃl lokān adhitiṣṭhati | vijñānānugataṃ jñānam ajñānena apākṛṣyate ||
Wika ni Bhishma: Kapag nasimulan na ang isang disiplina, huwag itong putulin sa gitna. Kung paanong ang apoy ay pinatitindi nang dahan-dahan, gayon din ay sindihan at paalabin nang unti-unti ang mga paraan tungo sa kaalaman; sa gayon, ang kaalaman ay nagsisimulang magliwanag na parang araw. Maging ang kamangmangan ay nakasalig sa kaalaman na lumalaganap at sumasandig sa tatlong daigdig; subalit dahil sa kamangmangan, ang kaalamang ginagabayan ng malinaw na paghimay ay humihina at nahihila palayo.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Do not abandon a discipline once begun; cultivate the means to knowledge gradually and steadily. True knowledge becomes luminous through sustained practice, while ignorance can obscure even discernment-guided understanding.
In the Śānti Parva’s instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīṣma continues ethical-spiritual counsel, using the metaphor of slowly intensifying fire to recommend patient, uninterrupted cultivation of knowledge and warning how ignorance diminishes insight.