Shloka 50

अव्यक्त-मानस-सृष्टिवादः

Doctrine of Creation from the Unmanifest ‘Mānasa’

Devanagari script

वृत्त एष ह॒दि प्रौढो मृत्युरेष मनोभव: । क्रोधो नाम शरीरस्थो देदहिनां प्रोच्यते बुचै:

Transliteration

vṛtta eṣa hṛdi prauḍho mṛtyur eṣa manobhavaḥ | krodho nāma śarīrastho dehināṃ procyate budhaiḥ ||

Translation

قال البراهمن: إن الشهوة، المولودة من الذهن، تنشأ في القلب وتشتد فيه؛ وهي في الحقيقة تتخذ صورة الموت. فإذا اعترضها عائق فلم تبلغ غايتها، أعلن الحكماء أن هذه القوة نفسها، القاطنة في أجساد الكائنات المتجسدة، تُسمّى حينئذٍ «الغضب».

Word by Word

• {'vṛttaḥ': 'arisen, occurred, come to be', 'eṣaḥ': 'this (one/thing)', 'hṛdi': 'in the heart', 'prauḍhaḥ': 'grown, mature, powerful', 'mṛtyuḥ': 'death

• a death-like destroyer', 'manobhavaḥ': 'mind-born

• desire (kāma) arising from the mind', 'krodhaḥ': 'anger, wrath', 'nāma': 'by name

• called', 'śarīrasthaḥ': 'situated in the body', 'dehinām': 'of embodied beings', 'procyate': 'is said, is called', 'budhaiḥ': 'by the wise, by the learned'}

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• ब्राह्मण (speaker)
• मनः (mind)
• हृदय (heart)
• मृत्यु (death)
• क्रोध (anger)
• देही (embodied beings)
• बुध (the wise)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Desire (kāma), arising in the mind and strengthening in the heart, is spiritually ‘death-like’ because it destroys discernment; when frustrated, it transforms into anger (krodha). The verse urges vigilance over desire before it matures and turns destructive.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Śānti Parva’s instructional dialogue, a Brāhmaṇa explains the inner mechanism by which desire originates and, upon obstruction, manifests as anger—framing both as internal forces that endanger the embodied being.