Shloka 13
Indratīrtha–Ādityatīrtha: Balarāma’s Ritual Bathing, Dāna, and Sacred-Historical Recollections
तपसा लकभ्यते सर्व यथाभूतं भविष्यति
tapasā labhyate sarvaṃ yathābhūtaṃ bhaviṣyati | śubhānane! tapasyā sarvaṃ prāpyate; tava manoratho 'pi yathāvat siddhaḥ bhaviṣyati | devatānāṃ ye divyāḥ sthānāḥ, te tapasyā prāpyante | mahatsukhasya mūla-kāraṇaṃ tapa eva ||
Dijo Vaiśampāyana: «Por la austeridad se alcanza todo; lo que ha de ser acontecerá en su forma verdadera. Oh de bello rostro, mediante una penitencia disciplinada todo puede ganarse, y tu anhelo más querido se cumplirá exactamente como lo has concebido. Incluso las moradas radiantes de los dioses se alcanzan por la austeridad. En verdad, la austeridad sola es la raíz de la dicha suprema.»
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that tapas—steady, disciplined austerity—has transformative power: it brings about attainment, ensures the proper fruition of one’s aims, and is presented as the fundamental source of the highest happiness, even enabling access to divine realms.
Vaiśampāyana, as narrator, conveys a consoling and instructive assurance to an addressed person (“O fair-faced one”): through tapas, desired outcomes will be fulfilled and even celestial attainments are possible, emphasizing moral-spiritual effort amid the broader war-time narrative of the Śalya Parva.