Shloka 13
Adhyāya 39 — त्रिगुणविवेकः (Discrimination of the Three Guṇas) and Avyakta-Doctrine
दृष्टवा त्वादित्यमुद्यन्तं कुचराणां भयं भवेत् | अध्वगा: परितप्येयुरुष्णतो दुःखभागिन:,सूर्यको उदित हुआ देखकर दुराचारी मनुष्योंको भय होता है और धूपसे दुःखित राहगीर संतप्त होते हैं
dṛṣṭvā tvādityam udyantaṃ kucarāṇāṃ bhayaṃ bhavet | adhvagāḥ paritapyeyur uṣṇato duḥkhabhāginaḥ ||
Seeing the Sun rise, fear arises in those who move in crooked ways; and travelers on the road, scorched by the heat, are afflicted and become sharers in suffering. Thus the same sunrise becomes a moral warning to the wicked and a physical trial to the weary.
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse contrasts inner conscience and outer circumstance: the righteous can face the day without dread, but wrongdoers feel fear even at the ordinary rising of the Sun, while the same Sun also tests human endurance through heat—reminding that actions shape one’s mental state and that life’s conditions can be both illuminating and challenging.
Vāyudeva speaks in a reflective, didactic tone, using the sunrise as an example: it provokes fear in the wicked (who anticipate exposure or consequence) and causes hardship to travelers under the hot rays, illustrating how a single cosmic event affects different people according to conduct and situation.