Shloka 32
कर्मनाशाभावः, गर्भे जीवप्रवेशः, आचारधर्मोपदेशः
Karma’s Non-Extinction, Jīva’s Entry into the Embryo, and Instruction on Conduct-Dharma
यच्च किंचित्सुखं तच्च दुःखं सर्वमिति स्मरन् | संसारसागरं घोरं तरिष्यति सुदुस्तरम्,जो मनुष्य सुख और दु:ख दोनोंको अनित्य समझता है, शरीरको अपवित्र वस्तुओंका समूह समझता है और मृत्युको कर्मका फल समझता है तथा सुखके रूपमें प्रतीत होनेवाला जो कुछ भी है वह सब दुःख-ही-दुःख है, ऐसा मानता है, वह घोर एवं दुस्तर संसार-सागरसे पार हो जायगा
yacca kiñcit sukhaṃ tacca duḥkhaṃ sarvam iti smaran | saṃsārasāgaraṃ ghoraṃ tariṣyati sudustaram ||
The brāhmaṇa said: “Remembering that whatever appears as pleasure is, in truth, entirely suffering, a person will cross the terrifying, hard-to-cross ocean of worldly existence.”
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches radical discernment (viveka): what is taken as worldly pleasure is inseparable from suffering and impermanence. By repeatedly remembering this, one develops detachment (vairāgya), which becomes the means to cross the ‘ocean’ of saṃsāra.
A brāhmaṇa speaker delivers an instruction in a didactic setting, using the metaphor of saṃsāra as a terrifying ocean. The focus is not on external action but on an inner discipline of remembrance and revaluation of pleasure and pain.