Shloka 28
राजधर्मः—प्रजापालनं दानयज्ञश्च
Royal Duty—Protection of Subjects, Generosity, and Sacrificial Discipline
नैकान्तविनिपातेन विचचारेह कश्षन । धर्मी गृही वा राजा वा ब्रह्मचारी यथा पुन:
naikāntavinipātena vicacāreha kaścana | dharmī gṛhī vā rājā vā brahmacārī yathā punaḥ ||
毗湿摩说道：在此世间，无人能以绝对单一的道路行走一生。无论是行义之人、居家者、国王，还是守梵行的学生，都不可能将达摩实践得完全纯粹、毫无杂染；在人类行为中，违逆的冲动与失足的过失必然会夹杂而生。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhishma teaches that in lived reality dharma is rarely, if ever, practiced in a perfectly pure and exclusive form. Every role—righteous person, householder, king, or celibate student—faces constraints, competing duties, and human weaknesses, so conduct tends to contain some mixture that falls short of an ideal.
In the Shanti Parva’s instruction on dharma, Bhishma is advising Yudhishthira by emphasizing the complexity of moral life. He cautions against expecting absolute moral purity from any social role and frames dharma as something navigated amid practical limitations rather than followed as an unmixed, flawless rule.