Shloka 5
यज्ञवाटवैभववर्णनम् / Description of the Splendour of the Sacrificial Enclosure
कि नु तस्य शरीरेडस्ति सर्वलक्षणपूजिते | अनिष्टं लक्षणं कृष्ण येन दुःखान्युपाश्नुते
Yudhiṣṭhira uvāca: kiṃ nu tasya śarīre 'sti sarvalakṣaṇapūjite | aniṣṭaṃ lakṣaṇaṃ kṛṣṇa yena duḥkhāny upāśnute ||
युधिष्ठिर बोले— हे कृष्ण! उनका शरीर तो समस्त शुभ-लक्षणों से पूजित है। फिर उसमें कौन-सा अशुभ लक्षण है, जिसके कारण उन्हें इतने दुःख भोगने पड़ते हैं?
युधिष्ठिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
External auspicious signs do not guarantee a life free from suffering; Yudhiṣṭhira’s question points toward a deeper moral causality—dharma and karma—where pain may arise from complex past causes and the burdens of duty, not merely from visible ‘omens’.
Yudhiṣṭhira addresses Śrī Kṛṣṇa, puzzled that a person who appears endowed with all auspicious bodily marks still undergoes repeated hardships, and he asks what hidden inauspicious factor could explain that suffering.