Mahabharata 3.147.17 — Vana Parva, Adhyaya 147, Shloka 17
Bhīmasena–Hanūmān Saṃvāda: The Tail Test and the Divine Path
सक्तचक्षुरभिप्रायान् हृदयेनानुचिन्तयन् । पुंस्कोकिलनिनादेषु षघट्पदाचरितेषु च
saktacakṣur abhiprāyān hṛdayenānucintayan | puṁskokilaninādeṣu ṣaṭpadācariteṣu ca
قال فايشَمبايانا: وقد شُدَّ بصرُه وثبَت، وقلبُه يُعيد قصدَه مراراً، كان يُصغي إلى نداءات ذكور الوقواق، ويرقب المواضع التي تألفها النحل—غارقاً في تأمّلٍ باطنيٍّ بين أصوات الغابة وإشاراتها.
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The verse portrays how a person’s inner resolve or longing can fix the senses and make the mind repeatedly rehearse its intentions; nature’s sounds become a backdrop that mirrors and intensifies inward contemplation.
The narrator describes someone in the forest absorbed in thought—eyes fixed, heart brooding—attentive to the cuckoos’ calls and the bee-haunted spots, indicating a mood of concentrated inner preoccupation amid wilderness surroundings.
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