Shloka 2
तस्य चाज्ञानमाधार: प्रमाद: परिषेचनम् । सो<भ्यसूयापलाशो हि पुरा दुष्कृतसारवान्,व्यासजी कहते हैं--बेटा! मनुष्यकी हृदयभूमिमें मोहरूपी बीजसे उत्पन्न हुआ एक विचित्र वृक्ष है, जिसका नाम है काम। क्रोध और अभिमान उसके महान् स्कन्ध हैं। कुछ करनेकी इच्छा उसमें जल सींचनेका पात्र है। अज्ञान उसकी जड़ है। प्रमाद ही उसे सींचनेवाला जल है। दूसरोंके दोष देखना उस वृक्षका पत्ता है तथा पूर्व जन्ममें किये हुए पाप उसके सारभाग हैं
tasya cājñānam ādhāraḥ pramādaḥ pariṣecanam | so 'bhyasūyā-palāśo hi purā duṣkṛta-sāravān ||
Vyāsa said: “For that (tree of desire), ignorance is the very support and root; heedlessness is the watering that nourishes it. Its leaves are fault-finding and envy toward others, and its inner substance is the residue of past misdeeds.”
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
Desire and moral downfall are sustained by ignorance and watered by heedlessness; envy and fault-finding are its outward growth, while the deepest ‘essence’ comes from accumulated past wrongdoing. The remedy implied is vigilance (apramāda), right knowledge, and restraint from envy.
Vyāsa continues an extended metaphor describing a ‘tree’ of inner vice (centered on kāma, desire). In this verse he identifies its sustaining root and nourishment (ignorance and heedlessness) and its visible foliage (envy), linking its inner strength to prior sinful actions.