Shloka 51
Ārjava, Satya, and the Virocana–Sudhanvan Exemplum
Udyoga-parva 35
विदुर उवाच नान्यत्र विद्यातपसोनन्यत्रेन्द्रियनिग्रहात् नान्यत्र लोभसंत्यागाच्छान्तिं पश्यामि तेडनघ
vidura uvāca | nānyatra vidyā-tapaso nānyatrendriya-nigrahāt | nānyatra lobha-saṃtyāgāc chāntiṃ paśyāmi te 'nagha ||
Vidura berkata: “Wahai raja yang tak bernoda, aku tidak melihat jalan lain bagi kedamaianmu selain melalui pengetahuan dan tapa, melalui pengekangan indra, serta melalui pelepasan dari ketamakan.”
विदुर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Peace (śānti) is not achieved through external measures but through inner discipline: right knowledge (vidyā), austerity/self-discipline (tapas), restraint of the senses (indriya-nigraha), and especially the abandonment of greed (lobha-saṃtyāga).
In Udyoga Parva, Vidura offers moral counsel to a king amid rising political tension. Here he emphasizes that the ruler’s stability and peace depend on personal ethical reform—learning, self-restraint, and renouncing greed—rather than on force or stratagems.