Shloka 18
अव्यक्त-मानस-सृष्टिवादः
Doctrine of Creation from the Unmanifest ‘Mānasa’
तृष्णार्तिप्रभवं दु:खं दुःखार्तिप्रभवं सुखम् । सुखात् संजायते दु:खं दुःखमेवं पुनः:पुन:,संसारमें विषयोंकी तृष्णासे जो व्याकुलता होती है, उसीका नाम दुःख है और उस दुःखका विनाश ही सुख है। उस सुखके बाद (पुनः कामनाजनित) दुःख होता है। इस प्रकार बारंबार दुःख ही होता रहता है
tṛṣṇārtiprabhavaṃ duḥkhaṃ duḥkhārtiprabhavaṃ sukham | sukhāt saṃjāyate duḥkhaṃ duḥkhamevaṃ punaḥ punaḥ ||
婆羅門は言った。「苦は渇愛の責め苦より生じ、楽はその苦の責め苦の滅より生ず。されど楽よりまた苦が起こる。かくして輪廻の世において、苦は幾度も幾度も帰来する。」
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Craving (tṛṣṇā) produces distress, which is experienced as suffering; what people call happiness is often only the temporary relief from that distress. Because new desires arise after relief, the cycle of duḥkha repeats in saṃsāra unless craving is understood and restrained.
In Śānti Parva’s instructional discourse, a Brahmin speaker delivers a reflective teaching on the psychology of desire: how longing for objects creates agitation, how relief is mistaken for lasting happiness, and how this leads back to renewed suffering.