Shloka 7

Saṃsāra-gahana-jñāna: Vidura’s Account of Embodiment, Bondage, and Dharmic Release (संसारगहन-ज्ञानम्)

Devanagari script

इस स्थितिमें योनिद्वारके समीप आ जानेसे उसे बड़े दुःख सहने पड़ते हैं। फिर पूर्व कर्मोसे संयुक्त हुआ वह जीव योनिमार्गसे पीड़ित हो उससे छुटकारा पाकर बाहर आ जाता है और संसारमें आकर अन्यान्य प्रकारके उपद्रवोंका सामना करता है। जैसे कुत्ते मांसकी ओर झपटतते हैं, उसी प्रकार बालग्रह उस शिशुके पीछे लगे रहते हैं ।। ततः: प्राप्तोत्तरे काले व्याधयक्षापि तं तथा । उपसर्पन्ति जीवन्तं बध्यमानं स्वकर्मभि:,तदनन्तर ज्यों-ज्यों समय बीतता जाता है, त्यों-ही-त्यों अपने कर्मोंसे बँधे हुए उस जीवको जीवित अवस्थामें नयी-नयी व्याधियाँ प्राप्त होने लगती हैं

Transliteration

tataḥ prāptottare kāle vyādhyakṣā api taṃ tathā | upasarpanti jīvantaṃ badhyamānaṃ svakarmabhiḥ ||

Translation

Then, as time advances, new afflictions and wasting diseases repeatedly draw near to that living being, who remains bound and driven onward by the fetters of his own past actions. Thus, even while alive, he is pursued by suffering that arises from karma, and he must endure successive troubles in the world.

Word by Word

ततःthen, thereafter

प्राप्तोत्तरेwhen the later (time) has arrived; in the subsequent time

कालेin (the) time

व्याधयःdiseases

अक्षाःevil spirits/demons (afflictors)

अपिalso, even

तम्him/that (being)

तथाthus, in that manner

उपसर्पन्तिapproach, creep up to, attack

जीवन्तम्living, alive

बध्यमानम्being bound, being fettered

स्वकर्मभिःby (his) own actions/karma

Speaker

विदुर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vidura

jīva (the embodied being)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse emphasizes karmic causality: a being, even while alive, is bound by its own past actions, and therefore repeatedly encounters illness and suffering as time unfolds.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vidura continues a reflective description of embodied existence, stating that as time passes, diseases and decline approach the living being, who is constrained by the consequences of his own karma.