Shloka 2
Rajo-guṇa-nirdeśa — Brahmā’s Enumeration of Rajasic Dispositions
सनन््तापो रूपमायास: सुखदु:खे हिमातपौ । ऐश्वर्य विग्रह: संधिहेतुवादो5रति: क्षमा
sanantāpo rūpam āyāsaḥ sukhaduḥkhe himātapau | aiśvarya-vigrahaḥ sandhi-hetu-vādo 'ratiḥ kṣamā ||
Vāyu-deva said: “Perpetual anguish, bodily form, exertion, pleasure and pain, cold and heat; contention over power and possessions, arguments about the causes of peace and reconciliation; discontent, and also forbearance—these are among the conditions and dispositions that shape embodied life.”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse catalogs the dualities and pressures of embodied existence—pleasure/pain, cold/heat, toil, and the social turbulence of power and conflict—while highlighting kṣamā (forbearance) as a stabilizing ethical response amid inevitable agitation and dispute.
Vāyu-deva is speaking in a didactic mode, enumerating key experiences and tendencies that characterize worldly life and social interaction, including conflict over sovereignty and debates about making peace, thereby setting an ethical frame for how one should endure and respond.