Shloka 31
अहो ममोपरि विधे: संरम्भो दारुणो महान् । नानुबध्नाति कुशलं कस्येदं कर्मण: फलम्,“अहो! मुझपर विधाताका अत्यन्त भयानक और महान् कोप है, जिससे मुझे कहीं भी कुशल-क्षेमकी प्राप्ति नहीं होती। न जाने, यह हमारे किस कर्मका फल है?
aho mamopari vidheḥ saṃrambho dāruṇo mahān | nānubadhnāti kuśalaṃ kasyedaṃ karmaṇaḥ phalam ||
Alas, how fierce and overwhelming is the Creator’s wrath upon me! Nowhere does well-being or security attend me. Of what deed is this the consequence?
बृहदश्चव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse voices the Mahābhārata’s recurring ethical reflection: suffering is experienced as the ripening of karma, prompting self-inquiry rather than mere blame. It frames misfortune as a call to examine one’s past actions and to endure with awareness of moral causality.
Bṛhadaśva speaks in a tone of lament, feeling crushed by fate and deprived of any sense of safety or well-being. He wonders which past deed has produced this present hardship, expressing the psychological weight of adversity within the story.