Shloka 6
Doṣa-Parīkṣā and Guṇa-Viveka
Examination of Faults and Discernment of the Guṇas
सुखाद् बहुतरं दुःखं जीविते नास्ति संशय: । स्निग्धस्य चेन्द्रियार्थेषु मोहान्मरणमप्रियम्
sukhād bahutaraṃ duḥkhaṃ jīvite nāsti saṃśayaḥ | snigdhasyendriyārtheṣu mohān maraṇam apriyam ||
毫无疑问，在有身之世，苦多于乐。凡对诸根境界过分贪恋、深情执著者，因迷妄不能放下，便以死亡为不愿承受的折磨。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhīṣma teaches that worldly life contains more suffering than pleasure, and that strong attachment to sense-objects creates delusion, making death especially painful and unwelcome. The ethical thrust is toward vairāgya (detachment) and mastery over the senses to meet life’s end with clarity rather than fear.
In the Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and the disciplines that lead to peace. Here he emphasizes a reflective, renunciatory insight: recognizing the predominance of duḥkha in saṃsāric life and warning that indulgent attachment to sense pleasures intensifies distress at the time of death.