Shloka 53
Kṣemadarśa–Kālakavṛkṣīya Saṃvāda: Counsel on Impermanence, Non-attachment, and Composure in Dispossession
महाह्नद: संक्षुभित आत्मनैव प्रसीदति । (इत्थं नरो5प्यात्मनैव कृतप्रज्ञ: प्रसीदति ।) एतदेवंगतस्याहं सुखं पश्यामि जीवितुम्
mahāhradaḥ saṁkṣubhita ātmanaiva prasīdati | itthaṁ naro 'py ātmanaiva kṛtaprajñaḥ prasīdati | etad evaṁgatasya ahaṁ sukhaṁ paśyāmi jīvitum |
毗湿摩说道：“大湖纵被搅动而浑浊，终会依其自性复归澄明。亦复如是，具坚固而清净之慧者，即使遭受震荡，也能唯凭自我而复得安定与明澈。故而，王子啊，你能至此境地——心中生起清净之意——实为吉祥。我唯以此等生活为真正的幸福。”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
True clarity and peace are self-restored: even when the mind is disturbed, a person of steady wisdom (kṛtaprajña) returns to calm through inner discipline and the self’s own capacity for purification, like a lake settling back into clarity.
In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs a royal listener (addressed as “prince”), praising the emergence of pure, steady understanding and affirming that such an inwardly clarified life is the happiest and most auspicious way to live.