Shloka 15
Śānti-parva 206: Guṇa-hetu Moha, Kāma-krodha Chain, Indriya-utpatti, and Nirodha
अविनाशी विष्णु ही परबत्रह्म कहे जाते हैं। वे ही परमधाम और परमपद हैं। उन्हें प्राप्त कर लेनेपर जीव कालके राज्यसे मुक्त हो मोक्षधाममें स्थित हो जाते हैं ।।
avināśī viṣṇur hi parabrahma kathyate | sa eva paramadhāma paramapadaṃ ca | taṃ prāpya jīvaḥ kālarājyāt pramucyate mokṣadhāmni ca tiṣṭhati || guṇeṣv ete prakāśante nirguṇatvāt tataḥ param | nivṛttilakṣaṇo dharmas tathā anantyāya kalpate ||
毗湿摩说：不坏的毗湿奴被称为至上梵（Parabrahman）。唯有他是最高的归宿与至上的境界。得至于他，众生便脱离时间（迦罗）的统摄，安住于解脱之域（mokṣa）。众生因与诸德（guṇa）的作用相系——如身与意等——而在诸德中显现；然而至上自性（Paramātman）超越一切属性，彻然在其上。以退离为相的法（nivṛtti）——无贪欲而行、舍弃执取——有力引人趋向不坏的解脱境。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that Vishnu, identified with the Supreme Brahman, is beyond the guṇas and is the highest goal. Liberation comes by attaining Him, which frees the jīva from the dominion of Time. The practical means emphasized is nivṛtti-lakṣaṇa dharma—renunciatory, non-attached action and inner withdrawal from craving—leading to the imperishable state (mokṣa).
In the Shanti Parva’s instruction to Yudhishthira, Bhishma continues his discourse on mokṣa and the highest dharma. Here he identifies the supreme reality as Vishnu/Parabrahman, contrasts the jīva’s manifestation within guṇas with the Lord’s nirguṇa transcendence, and points to nivṛtti-oriented dharma as the path to liberation.