Shloka 52
Adhyāya 42 — Mahābhūta–Indriya–Adhyātma-Vyavasthā
Brahmā’s Instruction on Elements and Faculties
रोगशोकसमाविदष्टं पज्चस्रोत:समावृतम् पजञ्चभूतसमायुक्तं नदद्वारं द्विदिवतम्
rogaśokasamāviḍaṣṭaṃ pañcasrotaḥsamāvṛtaṃ pañcabhūtasamāyuktaṃ navadvāraṃ dvidhāvitam
এই দেহ ৰোগ আৰু শোকে বিদ্ধ; পাঁচ স্ৰোত (ইন্দ্ৰিয়-প্ৰবাহ)ৰে আৱৃত; পঞ্চভূতে সংযুক্ত; নৱদ্বাৰবিশিষ্ট; আৰু দ্বিবিধ টানত চালিত।
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames the body as a constructed, element-made ‘city’ with nine openings, vulnerable to illness and sorrow and swept along by sensory currents. Ethically, it urges discernment and restraint: do not mistake the body’s changing conditions and sense-flows for the true Self, and cultivate steadiness amid dual pulls.
Vāyu-deva is describing the condition of embodied life in instructive, metaphorical terms—highlighting how the jīva, while dwelling in the body, is constrained by elemental composition, sense-channels, and the inevitable experiences of pain such as disease and grief.