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Vyasa

Shloka 10

अध्याय ३२३ — श्वेतद्वीपगमनम्, यज्ञभाग-विवादः, एकान्तिभक्त्या नारायणदर्शन-नियमः (Śvetadvīpa Journey; Dispute over Sacrificial Share; Rule of Nārāyaṇa-vision through Single-minded Devotion)

Devanagari script

अन्न ते वर्तयिष्यामि जन्मयोगफलं तथा । शुकस्याग्रयां गतिं चैव दुर्विदामकृतात्मभि:

Transliteration

anna te vartayiṣyāmi janmayogaphalaṃ tathā | śukasyāgrayāṃ gatiṃ caiva durvidām akṛtātmabhiḥ ||

Translation

ビーシュマは言った。「王よ、我は汝に、シュカ（Śuka）の出生の由来、彼がヨーガによって得た果、そして自らを制し得ぬ者には悟り難い彼の至高の到達処を語ろう。」

Word by Word

अन्नfood

तेto you

वर्तयिष्यामिI shall relate / narrate

जन्मbirth

योगफलम्the fruit/result of yoga

तथाand also; likewise

शुकस्यof Śuka

अग्रयाम्excellent; foremost

गतिम्course; state; final goal

चand

एवindeed; just

दुर्विदाम्hard to be known/understood

अकृतात्मभिःby the unself-controlled (lit. those whose self is not perfected)

राजन्O king

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Śuka (Śukadeva)

Rājan (the King—Yudhiṣṭhira as addressee)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

True spiritual attainment (the ‘supreme gati’) is grasped through self-mastery and yogic discipline; those lacking inner control (akṛtātmānaḥ) find such states difficult to understand.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma, instructing the king, announces that he will narrate Śuka’s birth account, the results of his yoga, and the exalted destination he attained—setting up a didactic story about renunciation and realization.