Shloka 23

Śānti-parva Adhyāya 3: Karṇa’s training under Rāma Jāmadagnya and the Bhārgava restriction on the Brahmāstra

Devanagari script

सो>हमेनां गतिं प्राप्तो यथा न कुशलं तथा । त्वया साधो समागम्य विमुक्त: पापयोनितः,“वही मैं इस गतिको प्राप्त हुआ था, जहाँ कभी कुशल नहीं बीता। साधो! आपका समागम होनेसे मेरा इस पापयोनिसे उद्धार हो गया”

Transliteration

so ’ham enāṃ gatiṃ prāpto yathā na kuśalaṃ tathā | tvayā sādho samāgamya vimuktaḥ pāpayonitaḥ ||

Translation

«Así llegué a este estado de existencia, donde jamás me alcanzó el bienestar. Pero, oh santo, al entrar en tu compañía he sido liberado de este vientre pecaminoso (nacimiento vil).»

Word by Word

सःhe/that (I as such)

अहम्I

एनाम्this (her/this one) / this (state/condition)

गतिम्course, state, destiny

प्राप्तःhaving attained / reached

यथाas, in such a way that

नnot

कुशलम्well-being, welfare, good (state)

तथाso, thus

त्वयाby you

साधोO good man / O saint

समागम्यhaving met / having come together (with)

विमुक्तःfreed, released

पापयोनितःfrom a sinful womb/birth (sinful origin)

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Narada

sādhu (unnamed holy person addressed)

pāpayoni (sinful birth/state)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Association with the virtuous (satsanga) has transformative moral power: even one trapped in an inauspicious, sinful condition can be purified and released through contact with a truly good person, implying that ethical uplift is possible despite past karma.

What is happening in the narrative?

Narada speaks in the first person, recalling that he had fallen into a miserable state where no welfare was experienced; he then addresses a holy person and credits their meeting as the cause of his deliverance from a sinful birth/condition.