Shloka 34
Haṃsa–Sādhya Saṃvāda: Satya, Dama, Kṣamā and the Discipline of Speech
पर्यडुकशय्या भूमिश्न समाने यस्य देहिन: । शालयश्न कदन्नं च यस्य स्यान्मुक्त एव सः,“जिस देहधारीके लिये पलंगकी सेज और भूमि--दोनों समान है; जो अगहनीके चावल और कोदो आदिको एक-सा समझता है, वह मुक्त ही है”
paryaṅkaśayyā bhūmiś ca samāne yasya dehinaḥ | śāliś ca kadannaṃ ca yasya syān mukta eva saḥ ||
Bhīṣma nói: Người mang thân này mà đối với họ, giường và đất trần là như nhau; và đối với họ, gạo ngon và ngũ cốc thô cũng như nhau—người ấy đã là bậc giải thoát.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Liberation is marked by equanimity: when one is no longer attached to comfort (bed) or distressed by hardship (ground), and when one does not crave refined food over coarse fare, one has transcended desire and aversion—key bonds of saṃsāra.
In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and the path to peace after the war. Here he gives a concise sign of inner freedom, describing the liberated person’s even-mindedness toward bodily pleasures and necessities.