Shloka 19
Adhyaya 65 — Svarocis Enjoys on the Mountain; A Debate on Marital Fidelity and Desire
सर्वसत्त्वृतज्ञोऽसौ स्वरोचिरपराजितः ।
निशम्य लज्जितो दध्यौ सत्यमेव हि नानृतम् ॥
sarvasattvarutajño 'sau svarociraparājitaḥ |
niśamya lajjito dadhyau satyam eva hi nānṛtam ||
તે—જે સર્વ પ્રાણીઓના સ્વરો જાણતો હતો—(તથાપિ) સ્વરોચીના વશમાં પડી, તે સાંભળી લજ્જિત થયો અને વિચાર્યો: ‘નિશ્ચયે આ સત્ય છે, અસત્ય નથી.’
FAQs
Moral correction begins when one can still feel shame and accept truth. The verse frames conscience as a cognitive event: hearing a rebuke, reflecting, and assenting to satya.
Not pañcalakṣaṇa; it is ethical narrative (vaṃśānucarita-style storytelling may surround it, but this line itself is nīti-dharma).
‘Knowing all creatures’ cries’ suggests heightened sensitivity; yet being ‘overcome’ indicates that knowledge without self-mastery fails. Satya is presented as the restoring principle.