Shloka 29

Yudhiṣṭhira’s Remorse and Vyāsa’s Teaching on Impermanence (Śoka-nivāraṇa)

Devanagari script

संयोगा विप्रयोगान्ता जातानां प्राणिनां ध्रुवम्‌

Transliteration

saṃyogā viprayogāntā jātānāṃ prāṇināṃ dhruvam

Translation

Vyāsa sprach: „Für alle geborenen Wesen gilt gewiss: Jede Zusammenkunft endet im Getrenntsein.“

Word by Word

• संयोगाः: unions, associations
• संयोगाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: संयोग
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• विप्रयोगान्ताः: having separation as their end
• विप्रयोगान्ताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विप्रयोगान्त
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• जातानाम्: of those who are born
• जातानाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: जात
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• प्राणिनाम्: of living beings
• प्राणिनाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्राणिन्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• ध्रुवम्: certainly, inevitably
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ध्रुव

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vyāsa

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

All relationships and worldly associations are inherently impermanent; since separation is certain, one should cultivate steadiness, restraint, and non-attachment, meeting gain and loss, union and parting with dharmic composure.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vyāsa delivers a consoling, philosophical maxim within the Śānti Parva’s instruction: he frames human grief and attachment against the universal law that every meeting of embodied beings must end in parting.