Shloka 15
प्रजापतयः देवगणाश्च दिशि-दिशि स्थिताः ऋषयः
Prajāpatis, Deva-Groups, and the Ṛṣis Assigned to the Directions
प्रजा: सृष्टा मनसा कर्मणा च द्वावेवैती सत्पथौ लोकजुष्टौ । दृष्ट कर्म शाश्वतं चान्तवच्च मनस्त्याग: कारणं नान्यदस्ति
prajāḥ sṛṣṭā manasā karmaṇā ca dvāv evaitī satpathau lokajuṣṭau | dṛṣṭaṃ karma śāśvataṃ cāntavac ca manastyāgaḥ kāraṇaṃ nānyad asti ||
毗湿摩说：梵天（Brahmā）创造众生时，使其具备“心”与“行”（行动）；因此，这二者便是世间所共行、所认可的正行之道。行有二类——一为常（恒常），一为坏（败坏）。趋向解脱者名为常行；招致暂时享乐者为坏行。使行成为“常”，并能导向至上梵（至高者）的决定因缘，唯在于心中舍弃对行为果报的欲求——除此别无他因。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Karma becomes liberative (‘eternal’) not by its outer form but by inner orientation: giving up, in the mind, desire for results. Fruit-desire makes action bind to transient outcomes; renunciation of fruit-desire makes it a means toward the Supreme.
In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and liberation, Bhīṣma explains to the listener that Brahmā fashioned beings with both mind and action, and that right living involves understanding how action divides into binding (perishable) and freeing (eternal) depending on one’s mental attachment to results.