Shloka 373
पञ्चवर्णोत्पत्तिः — The Origin of the Five-Colored Fiery Being and Ritual-Disruptor Lineages
परिक्रामति संसारे चक्रवद् बहुवेदन: । इस प्रकार वह यद्यपि निरन्तर दुःख ही भोगता रहता है, तथापि अपनेको दु:खी नहीं मानता। इस दुःखको ही वह सुखकी संज्ञा दे देता है। जबतक बन्धनमें डालनेवाले कर्मोंका भोग पूरा नहीं होता और नये-नये कर्म बनते रहते हैं तबतक अनेक प्रकारके कष्टोंको सहन करता हुआ वह चक्रकी तरह इस संसारमें चक्कर लगाता रहता है
parikrāmati saṃsāre cakravad bahuvedanaḥ |
The hunter said: “Thus, though he continually undergoes nothing but suffering, he does not regard himself as miserable. He even gives to that very suffering the name ‘happiness.’ So long as the fruits of karma that bind one are not exhausted, and new actions keep being accumulated, he endures many kinds of distress and, like a wheel, keeps revolving through this world.”
व्याध उवाच
Educational Q&A
A person remains trapped in saṃsāra as long as binding karmas have not been fully experienced and new karmas continue to be produced. Delusion can be so strong that one normalizes suffering and even labels it ‘happiness,’ thereby continuing the cycle.
In the Vyādha’s instruction on dharma, he explains the mechanism of worldly wandering: repeated suffering, misrecognition of suffering as happiness, and the ongoing accumulation and exhaustion of karmic results that keep a being revolving like a wheel.