Shloka 16
Adhyaya 25 — Madālāsā’s Return, Royal Succession, and the First Teaching to Vikrānta
दुःखानि दुःखोपगमाय भोगान्सुखाय जानाति विमूढचेताः ।
तान्येव दुःखानि पुनः सुखानि जानात्यविद्वान्सुविमूढयेताः ॥
duḥkhāni duḥkhopagamāya bhogān sukhāya jānāti vimūḍhacetāḥ / tānyeva duḥkhāni punaḥ sukhāni jānāty avidvān suvimūḍhayetāḥ
The deluded mind takes enjoyments (bhogas)—which bring the approach of suffering—as if they were for happiness. The ignorant person, utterly confused, again takes those very sufferings to be happiness.
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FAQs
Sense-pleasures are misread as happiness though they generate suffering and dependence; discernment (viveka) is needed to avoid repeated self-deception.
A moral-psychological teaching within an upākhyāna; not a genealogical or cosmological pancalakṣaṇa component.
It indicates the cyclic reinforcement of saṃskāras: craving interprets pain as pleasure, sustaining saṃsāra through misperception.