Shloka 10

श्रेयो-धर्मकर्मविचारः

Inquiry into Śreyas, Dharma, and Karma

Devanagari script

बाहों चाभ्यन्तरे चैव कर्मणोर्मनसि स्थित: । निर्मलीकुरुते बुद्धा सोअमुत्रानन्त्यमश्लुते,“जो बाह्य (यज्ञ आदि) और आशभ्यन्तर (शम, दम आदि) कर्मोमें प्रवृत्त होकर मनके विषयमें स्थिरता प्राप्त करके अर्थात्‌ मनको स्थिर करके बुद्धिके द्वारा उसे निर्मल बनाता है, वह परलोकमें अक्षय सुख (मोक्ष) को प्राप्त कर लेता है

Transliteration

bāhye cābhyantare caiva karmaṇor manasi sthitaḥ | nirmalīkurute buddhyā so 'mutrānantyam aśnute ||

Translation

جو شخص بیرونی (یَجْن وغیرہ) اور باطنی (شَم دَم وغیرہ) اعمال میں مشغول رہ کر دل و دماغ کو ثابت قدم کرتا ہے اور عقلِ تمیز سے اسے پاکیزہ بناتا ہے، وہ آخرت میں لازوال اور لامحدود بھلائی—یعنی موکش—حاصل کرتا ہے۔

Word by Word

• {'bāhye': 'external, outward (rites and observable duties)', 'abhyantare': 'internal, inward (mental and ethical disciplines)', 'caiva': 'and indeed, and also', 'karmaṇoḥ': 'in/with respect to the two kinds of action (external and internal)', 'manasi': 'in the mind', 'sthitaḥ': 'steadfast, established, abiding', 'nirmalīkurute': 'makes pure, cleanses, clarifies', 'buddhyā': 'by intelligence, by discriminative understanding', 'saḥ': 'he, that person', 'amutra': 'there, in the other world (beyond this life)', 'ānantyam': 'endlessness, the infinite

• imperishable state', 'aśnute': 'attains, enjoys, reaches'}

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

True spiritual attainment comes from combining outward righteous duties with inward disciplines, then stabilizing and purifying the mind through buddhi (discriminative intelligence); this leads to imperishable liberation.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma, Bhīṣma continues advising on the path to the highest good, emphasizing inner purification and mental steadiness alongside prescribed external practices.