Shloka 27
Adhyaya 26 — Madālasa Names Alarka and Reorients Him Toward Kshatriya Duty
यदि ते मत्प्रियं कार्यं यदि ग्राह्यं वचो मम ।
तदेनं तनयं मार्गे प्रवृत्तेः सन्नियोजय ॥
yadi te mat-priyaṃ kāryaṃ yadi grāhyaṃ vaco mama / tad enaṃ tanayaṃ mārge pravṛtteḥ sanniyojaya //
যদি তুমি মোৰ প্ৰিয় কাম কৰিব বিচাৰা, যদি মোৰ বাক্য গ্ৰাহ্য হয়—তেন্তে এই পুত্ৰক দৃঢ়ভাৱে প্ৰবৃত্তিমাৰ্গত, অৰ্থাৎ লোকধৰ্মৰ কৰ্মপথত স্থাপন কৰা।
FAQs
The text advocates stage-appropriate dharma: heirs, especially kṣatriyas, must be trained first in governance, protection, and ritual obligations before higher renunciation is introduced.
Anucarita (didactic narrative) supporting dharmaśāstric ideals; not a cosmological section.
Pravṛtti here represents the disciplined channeling of desire and power into order (ṛta/dharma). Esoterically, it is the ‘right-hand’ path of integrating spirit with duty, not rejecting the world prematurely.