Shloka 16
Aśmagīta: Janaka’s Inquiry on Loss, Kāla, and the Limits of Control (अश्मगीता)
सुखं वा यदि वा दु:खं भूतानां पर्युपस्थितम् । प्राप्तव्यमवशै: सर्व परिहारो न विद्यते
sukhaṃ vā yadi vā duḥkhaṃ bhūtānāṃ paryupasthitam | prāptavyam avaśaiḥ sarvaṃ parihāro na vidyate ||
प्राणियों के निकट जो सुख या दुःख उपस्थित होता है, वह सब उन्हें विवश होकर भोगना ही पड़ता है; क्योंकि जो आ पहुँचा है, उसे टालने का कोई उपाय नहीं।
जनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
Happiness and suffering that have come upon a being are often unavoidable; therefore one should cultivate equanimity and moral steadiness, focusing on right response rather than futile resistance to the inevitable.
King Janaka is speaking in a didactic context within the Śānti Parva, offering a reflective instruction about the inevitability of experienced pleasure and pain and the need to endure them with composure.