Shloka 44
श्रेयो-धर्मकर्मविचारः
Inquiry into Śreyas, Dharma, and Karma
सो<स्मादथ भ्रश्यति कालयोगात् कृष्णे तले तिष्ठति सर्वकृष्टे । यथा त्वयं सिद्धाति जीवलोक- स्तत् तेडभिधास्याम्यसुरप्रवीर
so 'smād atha bhraśyati kālayogāt kṛṣṇe tale tiṣṭhati sarvakṛṣṭe | yathā tvayaṃ siddhāti jīvalokas tat te 'bhidhāsyāmy asurapravīra ||
毗湿摩说道：其后，随时运之力，有情堕落——沉入最幽暗、最卑下之境，宛如坠入下界之层，受生于最为鄙劣的存在形态。如今，噫，阿修罗中最卓绝的勇士啊，我将为汝说明：这被升沉之轮所缠的众生世间，如何得真实成就——解脱。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Time and karma can cause an embodied being to fall into increasingly degraded states of existence; Bhishma then turns to the remedy—explaining the means by which beings caught in samsara can attain siddhi, i.e., liberation.
Bhishma addresses an Asura leader and describes the soul’s downward movement under the force of time and wrongdoing, setting up his forthcoming instruction on how liberation is achieved despite the cycle of ascent and decline.