Shloka 26
त्रिवर्गविचारः
Tri-varga Deliberation: Dharma, Artha, Kāma
अभयं यस्य भूतेभ्यो भूतानामभयं यत: । तस्य देहाद् विमुक्तस्य भयं नास्ति कुतश्चन
abhayaṁ yasya bhūtebhyo bhūtānām abhayaṁ yataḥ | tasya dehād vimuktasya bhayaṁ nāsti kutaścana ||
毗湿摩说：不令任何众生生怖，亦无任何众生畏惧于他——如此大心之人一旦脱离对身躯的认同，则恐惧从任何处所都不能在他心中生起。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Fearlessness is grounded in non-harming and in being non-threatening to others; when one abandons body-identification (dehābhimāna), fear has no foothold, because fear depends on clinging to the vulnerable body and its possessions.
In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and liberation, Bhishma continues advising Yudhishthira by describing the marks of a liberated, great-souled person—one who neither fears beings nor is feared by them, and who is free from bodily identification.