Shloka 153

Daśagrīva-boonāvaraṇa, Viṣṇv-avatāra-niyoga, Vānara-sahāya-janana, Mantharā-nirmāṇa

Devanagari script

कालप्राप्तमुपासीत सस्यानामिव कर्षक: । “अतः विवेकी पुरुषको उचित है कि प्राप्त हुए सुखका (त्यागपूर्वक) सेवन करे और स्वतः आये हुए दुःखका भार भी (टैर्यपूर्वक) वहन करे। जैसे किसान बीज बोकर समयके अनुसार प्रारब्धवश जितना अन्न मिलता है, उसे ग्रहण करता है; उसी प्रकार मनुष्य समय- समयपर दैववश प्राप्त हुए सुख तथा दुःखको स्वीकार करें

Transliteration

kālaprāptam upāsīta sasyānām iva karṣakaḥ |

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: One should accept and make use of what comes in its proper time, like a farmer with his crops. As a farmer, having sown seed, receives whatever grain ripens according to season and fate, so too should a discerning person partake of the happiness that arrives (without grasping) and patiently bear the burden of sorrow that comes of itself—accepting both as time- and destiny-allotted.

Word by Word

kāla-prāptamthat which has come in due time / time-allotted (lot)

upāsītashould accept/attend to

sasyānāmof crops/grains

ivalike/as

karṣakaḥa farmer

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

farmer (karṣaka)

crops/grain (sasya)

Character Dynamics

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?

To live with discernment by accepting what time brings: enjoy lawful happiness without clinging and endure uninvited suffering with patience, recognizing both as seasonally allotted—like a farmer who receives only what ripens in due course.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana delivers a didactic maxim using an agrarian simile: as a cultivator depends on season and outcome after sowing, so a person should accept the alternating arrivals of pleasure and pain as governed by time and destiny.