Shloka 16
प्रजापतयः देवगणाश्च दिशि-दिशि स्थिताः ऋषयः
Prajāpatis, Deva-Groups, and the Ṛṣis Assigned to the Directions
स्वेनात्मना चक्षुरिव प्रणेता निशात्यये तमसा संवृतात्मा । ज्ञानं तु विज्ञानगुणेन युक्त कर्माशुभं पश्यति वर्जनीयम्
bhīṣma uvāca | svenātmanā cakṣur iva praṇetā niśātyaye tamasā saṃvṛtātmā | jñānaṃ tu vijñānaguṇena yuktaṃ karmāśubhaṃ paśyati varjanīyam |
毗湿摩说：当长夜已尽，自我不再为黑暗所裹覆时，内在的引导者——如同凭自身光明而能见的眼——便能辨明道路上的事物，识得当避之物，如荆棘一般。亦复如是，当迷妄之幕被揭开，理智为真知之光所照，并与辨别之慧相应，便会看见不善之业乃应舍弃之物。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
When ignorance and delusion recede, knowledge combined with discriminative understanding enables the intellect to recognize unethical or harmful actions as avoidable—just as the eye, once darkness is gone, can see thorns on the road and steer clear of them.
In the Shanti Parva’s instruction to Yudhishthira, Bhishma continues a moral-philosophical explanation: he uses a dawn-and-vision simile to show how the mind, once freed from the darkness of moha, clearly perceives which actions are to be renounced.