Shloka 13

अध्याय २८६ — पराशर-उपदेशः

Ethical Restraint, Mortality, and Karma

Devanagari script

भवात्मकं सम्परिवर्तमानं न मादृश:संज्वरं जातु कुर्यात्‌ । इष्टान्‌ भोगान्‌ नानुरुध्येत्‌ सुखं वा न चिन्तयेद्‌ दुःखमभ्यागतं वा

Transliteration

bhavātmakam samparivartamānaṃ na mādṛśaḥ saṃjvaraṃ jātu kuryāt | iṣṭān bhogān nānurudhyet sukhaṃ vā na cintayed duḥkham abhyāgataṃ vā ||

Translation

সংসারকে ভব-স্বভাবের নিরন্তর আবর্তনরূপে দেখে আমার মতো মানুষ কখনও দহন-দুঃখে পতিত হয় না। সে কাম্য ভোগ বা সুখের পেছনে ধাবিত হয় না; আর দুঃখ এসে পড়লেও তা নিয়ে মনকে ব্যাকুল করে না।

Word by Word

• {'bhavātmakam': 'consisting in bhava

• pertaining to worldly becoming/existence (saṃsāra)', 'samparivartamānam': 'continually revolving/undergoing change

• turning again and again', 'na': 'not', 'mādṛśaḥ': 'one like me

• a person of my kind (i.e., disciplined/wise)', 'saṃjvaram': 'burning anguish, feverish distress, inner torment', 'jātu': 'ever, at any time', 'kuryāt': 'would do/make

• would produce (in oneself)', 'iṣṭān': 'desired, pleasing, wished-for', 'bhogān': 'enjoyments, sense-pleasures, objects of enjoyment', 'na anurudhyet': 'should not pursue/attach oneself to

• should not follow after', 'sukham': 'happiness, pleasure, comfort', 'vā': 'or/even', 'na cintayet': 'should not think anxiously about

• should not worry/brood', 'duḥkham': 'sorrow, pain, suffering', 'abhyāgatam': 'that which has come upon one

Speaker

समड़ उवाच

Characters & Entities

• समड़ (Samaḍa/Samaḍaḥ, speaker)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Cultivate equanimity by recognizing saṃsāra as constantly changing: do not cling to pleasant experiences or happiness, and do not become mentally agitated when suffering arrives.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the didactic discourse of Śānti Parva, the speaker (Samaḍa) describes the stance of a disciplined person: observing the revolving nature of worldly existence, he refuses both craving for pleasures and anxiety over inevitable sorrow.