Shloka 17
Vimokṣa-niścaya: Pañcaśikha’s Analysis of Aggregates, Guṇas, and Tyāga (मोक्षनिर्णयः)
उदारचित्त पुरुष सत्य, शौच, सरलता, त्याग, तेज, पराक्रम, क्षमा, धैर्य, बुद्धि, मन और तपके प्रभावसे समस्त विषयात्मक भावोंपर आलोचनात्मक दृष्टि रखते हुए शान्तिकी इच्छासे अपनी इन्द्रियोंको संयममें रखे ।।
udāracittaḥ puruṣaḥ satyaśauca-saralatā-tyāga-tejaḥ-parākrama-kṣamā-dhairya-buddhi-manas-tapaḥ-prabhāvāt samasta-viṣayātmaka-bhāveṣu ālocanātmikāṃ dṛṣṭiṃ kṛtvā śānti-kāmaḥ svendriyāṇi saṃyame niveśayet || sattvena rajasā caiva tamasā caiva mohitāḥ | cakravat parivartante hṛjñānāj jantavo bhūśam ||
毗湿摩说：心怀高贵之人，凭借真实、清净、坦直、舍离、精进之光、勇武、宽恕、坚忍、智慧、调伏之心与苦行之力，应以审察之眼观照一切由诸根所生的冲动；并以求寂静为愿，摄持诸根。因为众生为萨埵、罗阇、怛摩三德所迷惑，便如轮回转，受内心之识与其迷乱强力驱使而不断旋转。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Cultivate inner virtues (truth, purity, simplicity, renunciation, vigor, forgiveness, steadiness, discernment) and use them to examine sense-impulses critically; then restrain the senses for the sake of peace. Otherwise, beings remain trapped in cyclical fluctuation under the influence of the three guṇas.
In the Śānti Parva instruction, Bhīṣma continues advising on the path to peace and liberation: he prescribes ethical and psychological disciplines and explains how the guṇas (sattva, rajas, tamas) keep creatures revolving in recurring patterns unless checked by discernment and self-restraint.