Shloka 2
उत बालाय पाण्डित्यं पण्डितायोत बालताम् | ददाति सर्वमीशान: पुरस्ताच्छुक्रमुच्चरन्,वही सबका नियन्ता है और प्राणियोंके पूर्वजन्मके कर्मोंके अनुसार उन्हें सब प्रकारका फल देता है। वही मूर्खको विद्वान् और विद्वानको मूर्ख बना देता है
uta bālāya pāṇḍityaṃ paṇḍitāyota bālatām | dadāti sarvam īśānaḥ purastāc chukram uccaran |
Yudhiṣṭhira said: “The Lord, the supreme Ruler, bestows everything. Proclaiming the ancient, luminous ordinance, He can grant learning to a childlike person and, likewise, childishness to one who is learned. In accordance with beings’ prior deeds, He dispenses every kind of result.”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
That outcomes such as wisdom or folly are ultimately under the Lord’s governance and are dispensed in accordance with prior karma; therefore one should remain humble and ethically steady rather than proud of learning or contemptuous of others.
In the Udyoga Parva’s deliberations before the great war, Yudhiṣṭhira reflects on moral causality and divine control, emphasizing that the rise and fall of human capacities (like intelligence) occur according to a higher order linked to past actions.