Shloka 27
Chapter 137: Yuyudhāna (Sātyaki) Slays Somadatta; Yudhiṣṭhira Redirected from Droṇa
स्वयं पीत्वा महाराज कालकूटं सुदुर्जरम् । तस्येदानीं फल कृत्स्नमवाप्लुहि नरोत्तम,नरश्रेष्ठ महाराज! जिसको पचाना अत्यन्त कठिन है, उस कालकूट विषको स्वयं पीकर अब उसके सारे परिणामोंको आप ही भोगिये
saṃjaya uvāca |
svaṃyaṃ pītvā mahārāja kālakūṭaṃ sudurjaram |
tasyedānīṃ phalaṃ kṛtsnam avāpluhi narottama ||
サンジャヤは言った。「大王よ、人の中の最勝者よ。汝は自ら、消し難き恐るべきカーラクータの毒を飲んだ。ゆえに今、その結果のすべてを受けねばならぬ。行いを選んだ以上、その果を余すところなく負うのだ。」
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
One must accept full responsibility for one’s chosen actions: when a harmful course is willingly embraced, its bitter results cannot be shifted onto others. The verse uses the metaphor of drinking deadly poison to stress the inevitability and totality of karmic consequence.
Sanjaya addresses King Dhṛtarāṣṭra with a sharp moral reminder: by his own decisions and complicity in the unfolding conflict, he has ‘drunk poison’—and now must face the complete fallout of those choices as events in the war reach their painful outcomes.