Shloka 3
Śānti-parva 168: Śoka-nivṛtti-buddhi (The Cognition that Reduces Grief) and Piṅgalā’s Nairāśya
कम्मिंश्षात्मा निधातव्यस्त्रिवर्गविजयाय वै । संहृष्टा नै्ठिकं वाक्यं यथावद् वक्तुमर्हथ
kasmiṁś cātmā nidhātavyas trivarga-vijayāya vai | saṁhṛṣṭā naiṣṭhikaṁ vākyaṁ yathāvad vaktum arhatha ||
এই তিনিটাৰ ওপৰত জয় লাভ কৰিবলৈ বিশেষকৈ মনটো কোনটোত দৃঢ়ভাৱে স্থাপন কৰা উচিত? তোমালোক সকলোৱে হৰ্ষ আৰু দৃঢ় সংকল্পেৰে এই প্ৰশ্নৰ যথাযথ উত্তৰ দিয়া—যি কথাত তোমালোকৰ সম্পূৰ্ণ আৰু অচল বিশ্বাস আছে, সেই কথাই কোৱা।
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames an ethical inquiry: to master the three worldly aims (dharma, artha, kāma), one must fix the mind upon a chosen foundation, and the respondents are urged to speak a correct teaching grounded in firm personal conviction (naiṣṭhikī niṣṭhā).
Vaiśampāyana introduces a question being posed to a group of respondents: they are asked, with enthusiasm and seriousness, to declare what the mind should be anchored in to achieve mastery over the trivarga, and to answer in a properly reasoned and sincerely held way.