Shloka 46
श्रेयो-धर्मकर्मविचारः
Inquiry into Śreyas, Dharma, and Karma
अष्टौ च षष्टिं च शतानि चैव मनोनिरुद्धानि महाद्युतीनाम् । शुक्लस्य वर्णस्य परा गतिर्या त्रीण्येव रुद्धानि महानुभाव
aṣṭau ca ṣaṣṭiṃ ca śatāni caiva manoniruddhāni mahādyutīnām | śuklasya varṇasya parā gatir yā trīṇy eva ruddhāni mahānubhāva ||
Wika ni Bhishma: Ang walong prinsipyo, ang animnapu, at maging ang daan-daang pagbabago ng isip na mula sa mga iyon ay napipigil ng isip ng mga yogin na may dakilang ningning. Pinipigil din nila ang tatlong guṇa—sattva, rajas, at tamas. Kaya ang sukdulang layunin na natatamo ng “puti” (dalisay at maningning) na hanay ng mga ganap na nilalang ay siya ring pinakamataas na kalagayang nararating ng mga yogin na nagtagumpay sa gayong pagpipigil.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation is presented as the result of profound inner restraint: the yogin stills the proliferating categories of experience (tattvas and their many operations) and even transcends the three guṇas. When the guṇas are checked, one reaches the highest ‘pure’ state—an ethical ideal of mastery over desire, agitation, and inertia.
In the Shanti Parva’s instruction on peace and liberation, Bhishma explains to his listener that accomplished yogins control the mind so completely that the entire field of principles and mental modifications becomes subdued; by restraining even sattva, rajas, and tamas, they attain the same supreme destination attributed to the ‘white/pure’ perfected order.