Shloka 18
आत्मदर्शन-उपदेशः (Ātma-darśana Upadeśa) — Mind, Senses, and the All-pervading Self
ये ते रात्यहनी पूर्व कीर्तिते जीवलौकिके । तयो: संख्याय वर्षग्रं ब्राह्मे वक्ष्याम्पह:क्षपे
ye te rātryahanī pūrvaṁ kīrtite jīvalaukike | tayoḥ saṅkhyāya varṣāgraṁ brāhme vakṣyāmy ahaḥkṣape ||
Wika ni Vyāsa: “Yaong mga gabi at araw na naipaliwanag na noon tungkol sa daigdig ng tao—gamit ang kanilang bilang bilang panukat, ngayo’y ilalahad ko ang haba ng araw at gabi ni Brahmā, at ang kabuuang bilang ng mga taon na naroroon.”
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse introduces a shift from human-scale time to cosmic-scale time, stating that the previously explained human day-night reckoning will be used as a basis to explain Brahmā’s day and night and the aggregate count of years—preparing for the yuga and kalpa calculations that frame moral and social decline across ages.
Vyāsa continues an instructional discourse in Śānti Parva, transitioning from earlier explanations of time as experienced in the human realm to the larger cosmological framework, announcing that he will now define Brahmā’s day-night measure and related year totals.