Shloka 3
Adhyaya 71 — The King’s Remorse and the Sage’s Counsel on the Necessity of a Wife
सोऽहं कथं करिष्यामि त्यक्ता पत्नी मया हि सा ।
अथवा ज्ञानदृष्टिं तं पृच्छामि मुनिसत्तमम् ॥
so 'haṃ kathaṃ kariṣyāmi tyaktā patnī mayā hi sā / athavā jñānadṛṣṭiṃ taṃ pṛcchāmi munisattamam
“How shall I act, since I truly cast her off as my wife? Or else—I shall ask the best of sages, the one endowed with the vision of knowledge.”
FAQs
When dharma is complex and one’s own actions are implicated, the proper course is to seek guidance from a realized authority (jñāna-dṛṣṭi), not to improvise self-justifying solutions.
A manvantara-era moral narrative illustrating dharma through the king’s recourse to a ṛṣi.
Turning to ‘knowledge-vision’ implies shifting from reactive emotion to discriminative insight (viveka), a movement from rājasic agitation toward sattvic clarity.