Shloka 62

Sarasvatī–Tārkṣya Saṃvāda: Agnihotra-vidhi, Dāna-phala, and Mokṣa-prasaṅga (सरस्वती–तार्क्ष्यसंवादः)

Devanagari script

अत्र ते कथयिष्यामि तदिहैकमना: शृणु । यथेहामुत्र च नर: सुखदुःखमुपाश्चुते,मनुष्य इहलोक या परलोकमें जिस प्रकार सुख और दुःख भोगता है, इसके विषयमें तुम्हें अपना विचार बताऊँगा। तुम एकाग्रचित्त होकर सुनो

Transliteration

atra te kathayiṣyāmi tad ihaikamanāḥ śṛṇu | yathehāmutra ca naraḥ sukhaduḥkham upāśnute ||

Translation

Here I shall explain it to you—listen with a single, focused mind. I will tell you how a person, both in this world and in the next, comes to experience pleasure and pain—how these results are encountered as the fruits of one’s conduct.

Word by Word

अत्रhere

तेto you

कथयिष्यामिI will tell

तत्that (matter)

इहhere (in this world)

एकमना:single-minded, attentive

शृणुlisten

यथाas, in the manner that

इहhere

अमुत्रthere (in the other world)

चand

नरःa man

सुखदुःखम्pleasure and pain

उपाश्नुतेexperiences, enjoys/suffers

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mārkaṇḍeya (speaker)

nara (a person/human being)

iha (this world)

amutra (the next world)

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?

Mārkaṇḍeya introduces a moral explanation of how pleasure and pain are experienced in both this life and the next, implying a karmic linkage between one’s actions/choices and the results one undergoes.

What is happening in the narrative?

Mārkaṇḍeya begins an instructive discourse, asking the listener to be attentive, and announces that he will explain the principle by which humans experience happiness and suffering across worldly and post-worldly states.