Shloka 4
Vimokṣa-niścaya: Pañcaśikha’s Analysis of Aggregates, Guṇas, and Tyāga (मोक्षनिर्णयः)
सत्पुरुषोंने सदा इसी मार्गको ग्रहण किया है; अतः यही अनिन््द्य एवं निर्दोष है। यह वह बुद्धि है जिसके द्वारा चलकर मनुष्य परम गतिको प्राप्त कर लेता है ।।
bhīṣma uvāca | satpuruṣair sadā eṣa mārgaḥ gṛhītaḥ; ataḥ eṣa eva anindyaḥ nirdoṣaś ca | eṣā sā buddhiḥ yayā gatvā manuṣyaḥ paramāṃ gatiṃ prāpnoti || śarīravān upādatte mohāt sarvān parigrahān | krodha-lobhādibhiḥ bhāvaiḥ yukto rājasa-tāmasaiḥ ||
毗湿摩说道：此道自古为真正善人所取，故无可指摘，亦无过失。此乃辨慧；循此而行，人得至最高归宿。然而执身为我者，为无明所惑，便攫取种种所有；又为嗔怒与贪欲等心态所驱使——染以罗阇斯与塔摩斯——遂沉溺于聚敛与执著诸物。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhishma contrasts two orientations: the blameless path of discriminative wisdom (buddhi) followed by the virtuous, which leads to the highest goal, versus body-identification that breeds delusion and fuels grasping (parigraha) under the sway of anger, greed, and the rajas–tamas qualities.
In Shanti Parva, Bhishma instructs Yudhishthira on righteous living and inner discipline. Here he endorses a time-honored ethical-spiritual path embraced by the good, and then diagnoses the opposite tendency: an embodied person, mistaking the self for the body, becomes entangled in acquisition and attachment through passion and ignorance.