Shloka 15
Ārjava, Satya, and the Virocana–Sudhanvan Exemplum
Udyoga-parva 35
न जीयते चानुजिगीषते<न्यान् न वैरकृच्चाप्रतिघातकश्न । निन्दाप्रशंसासु समस्वभावो न शोचते हृष्पति नैव चायम्
na jīyate cānujigīṣate 'nyān na vairakṛc cāpratighātakaś ca | nindāpraśaṃsāsu samasvabhāvo na śocate hṛṣyati naiva cāyam ||
Haṃsa berkata: Ia tidak ditaklukkan oleh orang lain, dan ia pun tidak ingin menaklukkan siapa pun. Ia tidak memupuk permusuhan dan tidak berkehendak melukai sesama. Dengan watak yang seimbang dalam celaan maupun pujian, ia tidak diguncang oleh duka dan tidak meluap oleh suka—ia melampaui keduanya.
हंस उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches inner freedom through non-competitiveness, non-enmity, and non-harm, grounded in equanimity toward praise and blame. One who neither seeks to dominate nor retaliate, and who remains even-minded, transcends the oscillation of joy and sorrow.
In Udyoga Parva, amid counsel and moral instruction before the great war, the speaker identified as Haṃsa delivers a teaching on the marks of a spiritually mature and ethically disciplined person—describing the temperament that remains unshaken by social approval or condemnation and avoids hostility and harm.