Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 50
मानापमानयोस्तस्मात्स्वकृतं कारणं परम् । स्रष्टापि नापमार्ष्टुं तत्परीष्टे स्वकृतां कृतिम् । मा शोचस्त्वमतः पुत्र दिष्टमिष्टं समर्पयेत्
mānāpamānayostasmātsvakṛtaṃ kāraṇaṃ param | sraṣṭāpi nāpamārṣṭuṃ tatparīṣṭe svakṛtāṃ kṛtim | mā śocastvamataḥ putra diṣṭamiṣṭaṃ samarpayet
Ainsi, pour l’honneur comme pour le déshonneur, la cause suprême est l’acte accompli par soi. Même le Créateur ne l’efface pas; il ne fait qu’éprouver l’œuvre façonnée par ses propres actions. Ne t’afflige donc pas, mon fils : accueille ce qui est ordonné et offre même ce qui t’est cher.
Sunīti (addressing Dhruva)
Listener: Frame-audience (implicit)
Scene: Sunīti instructs Dhruva with a calm, authoritative gesture—one hand raised in teaching, the other resting; Dhruva listens, eyes steady; atmosphere of moral clarity.
FAQs
Honor and humiliation arise from one’s own karma; the right response is steadiness, surrender, and moral resolve.
No specific tīrtha is mentioned in this verse; it is ethical instruction within the Kāśīkhaṇḍa narrative frame.
No explicit ritual is given; the ‘prescription’ is inner discipline—accepting destiny and relinquishing attachment.