Shloka 15
सत्य–अनृत, प्रकाश–तमस्, स्वर्ग–नरक विवेचनम्
Truth and Untruth as Light and Darkness; Svarga and Naraka as Ethical Consequences
ततस्तेजोमयं दिव्यं पद्म सृष्टं स्वयम्भुवा । तस्मात् पद्मात् समभवद् ब्रह्मा वेदमयो निधि:
tatas tejomayaṃ divyaṃ padma sṛṣṭaṃ svayambhuvā | tasmāt padmāt samabhavad brahmā vedamayo nidhiḥ ||
随后，自生之主（Svayambhū）先化出一朵光辉灿然的神圣莲华。由那莲华之中，梵天（Brahmā）显现——乃吠陀无尽之宝藏。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents creation as emerging from divine radiance and culminating in Brahmā as the embodiment and repository of the Vedas, implying that the right ordering of the world (dharma) is grounded in sacred knowledge and luminous purity, not in force alone.
Bhīṣma describes an early stage of cosmic origination: the Self-born Lord first creates a radiant divine lotus, and from that lotus Brahmā manifests, characterized as ‘Veda-made’—a treasury of Vedic wisdom—who will function as the creator within the cosmic process.