Shloka 5
यज्ञवाटवैभववर्णनम् / Description of the Splendour of the Sacrificial Enclosure
कि नु तस्य शरीरेडस्ति सर्वलक्षणपूजिते | अनिष्टं लक्षणं कृष्ण येन दुःखान्युपाश्नुते,श्रीकृष्ण! उनका शरीर तो सभी शुभलक्षणोंसे सम्पन्न है। फिर उसमें अशुभ लक्षण कौन-सा है, जिससे उन्हें अधिक दुःख उठाना पड़ता है?
Yudhiṣṭhira uvāca: kiṃ nu tasya śarīre 'sti sarvalakṣaṇapūjite | aniṣṭaṃ lakṣaṇaṃ kṛṣṇa yena duḥkhāny upāśnute ||
Yudhiṣṭhira said: “O Kṛṣṇa, his body is honored with every auspicious mark. What, then, is the inauspicious sign present in him, because of which he has to endure so many sufferings?”
युधिष्ठिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
External auspicious signs do not guarantee a life free from suffering; Yudhiṣṭhira’s question points toward a deeper moral causality—dharma and karma—where pain may arise from complex past causes and the burdens of duty, not merely from visible ‘omens’.
Yudhiṣṭhira addresses Śrī Kṛṣṇa, puzzled that a person who appears endowed with all auspicious bodily marks still undergoes repeated hardships, and he asks what hidden inauspicious factor could explain that suffering.