Shanti Parva Adhyaya 331 Shloka 6 - Mahabharata | Gujarati | Vedapath

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Shloka 6

अध्याय ३३१: नारायणकथा-प्रशंसा तथा नारदस्य श्वेतद्वीप-निवृत्ति एवं बदरी-आगमनम् | Chapter 331: Praise of the Nārāyaṇa Narrative; Nārada’s Return from Śvetadvīpa and Arrival at Badarī

Devanagari script

दोषदर्शी भवेत्‌ तत्र यत्र राग: प्रवर्तते । अनिष्टवर्धितं पश्येत्‌ तथा क्षिप्रं विरज्यते

Transliteration

doṣadarśī bhavet tatra yatra rāgaḥ pravartate | aniṣṭavardhitaṃ paśyet tathā kṣipraṃ virajyate ||

Translation

નારદે કહ્યું—જ્યાં રાગ પ્રવર્તવા લાગે ત્યાં દોષદૃષ્ટિ રાખવી; તેને અનિષ્ટ વધારનારું માની જોવામાં આવે તો શીઘ્ર વૈરાગ્ય થાય છે.

Word by Word

दोषदर्शीone who sees faults; fault-finding (in that context)

भवेत्should become / should be

तत्रthere

यत्रwhere

रागःattachment; passion

प्रवर्ततेarises; proceeds; becomes active

अनिष्टवर्धितम्as increasing the undesirable (evil); as a promoter of harm

पश्येत्should see; should regard

तथाthus; in that way

क्षिप्रम्quickly; soon

विरज्यतेbecomes dispassionate; is detached

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Nārada

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

When attachment (rāga) starts to grow, consciously apply doṣa-darśana—seeing the drawbacks—and recognize the object of craving as a cause of increasing harm (aniṣṭa). This mental discipline quickly produces vairāgya (dispassion).

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on peace and liberation-oriented conduct, Nārada gives practical guidance for inner restraint: he advises a method to counter rising attachment by reframing it through awareness of its defects and consequences.