Shloka 11
Adhyaya 27 — Madālasa’s Instruction to King Alarka: Royal Ethics, Self-Conquest, and Statecraft
यस्त्वेतानविजित्यैव वैरिणो विजिगीषते ।
सोऽजितात्मा जितामात्यः शत्रुवर्गेण बाध्यते ॥
yas tv etān avijityaiva vairiṇo vijigīṣate /
so 'jitātmā jitāmātyaḥ śatruvargeṇa bādhyate
जो पहले इन आन्तरिक दोषों को जीते बिना, अपने मन को अजित रखकर, यद्यपि मंत्रियों को वश में कर ले, फिर भी शत्रुओं को जीतना चाहता है—वह शत्रुओं के समूह से दबा दिया जाता है।
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FAQs
Ambition without self-mastery is self-defeating: even if administrative machinery is forced into obedience, the ruler’s own ungoverned impulses create vulnerabilities that enemies exploit.
Ancillary nīti; not pancalakṣaṇa.
A mind that subdues externals but not itself is ‘split’; such inner incoherence invites ‘enemy forces’—stress, confusion, and reactive patterns—to dominate.