Shloka 559
उपवासफलात्मकविधिः — Upavāsa as Yajña-Equivalent Merit
Angiras Teaching
भरतश्रेष्ठ! वह स्वर्गमें जाकर सैकड़ों रमणियोंसे भरे हुए महलमें रमण करता है। इस जगतमें दुर्बल मनुष्यको हृष्ट-पुष्ट होते देखा गया है। जिसे घाव हो गया है
bharataśreṣṭha! sa svargaṁ gatvā śataśo ramaṇībhiḥ paripūrṇe mahale ramate. asmin loke durbalo 'pi manuṣyo hṛṣṭa-puṣṭo dṛśyate. yasya vraṇo jātaḥ, tasya vraṇo 'pi rohaṇaṁ gacchati. rogī ca svasyā roga-nivṛtty-arthaṁ auṣadha-samūhaṁ prāpnoti. krodha-pūrṇaṁ puruṣaṁ prasādayituṁ upāyo 'pi labhyate. artha-māna-kṛte duḥkhita-puruṣasya duḥkhānāṁ nivāraṇam api dṛśyate; kintu svarga-kāṅkṣiṇaḥ divya-sukha-kāṅkṣiṇaś ca puruṣasya etāni sarvāṇi iha-loka-sukhāni na rocante.
O best of the Bharatas! Having gone to heaven, he delights in a palace filled with hundreds of lovely women. In this world too, one sees a weak man become cheerful and strong; a wound heals; a sick man obtains many medicines to remove his disease; and even a means is found to pacify a man filled with anger. One also sees the alleviation of the sorrows of a man distressed for wealth and honor. Yet for a man who longs for heaven and desires divine happiness, all these are merely pleasures of this world and do not truly appeal.
अंगियरा उवाच
Educational Q&A
Worldly problems often have worldly remedies—health returns, wounds heal, anger can be pacified, and distress over wealth or honor can be relieved. But one who is intent on heaven and divine happiness finds such temporary, this-worldly pleasures insufficient and unappealing, implying a call toward higher aspiration and detachment.
Aṅgiras addresses a Bharata noble and contrasts the enjoyments of heaven (a palace filled with many women) with the ordinary recoveries and consolations available on earth. He then notes that a person yearning for svarga and divine bliss does not value these mundane comforts, framing a moral reflection on priorities and desire.