Shloka 45
Udyoga Parva Adhyāya 132 — Vidura’s Counsel on Udyama, Yaśas, and Kṣātra-Dharma
स्वबाहुबलमाश्रित्य यो<भ्युज्जीवति मानव: । स लोके लभते कीर्ति परत्र च शुभां गतिम्
svabāhubalam āśritya yo 'bhyujjīvati mānavaḥ | sa loke labhate kīrtiṃ paratra ca śubhāṃ gatim ||
己が腕の力を頼みとして、向上を志して生きる者は、この世にて良き名声を得、彼岸においても吉き行き先を得る。
पुत्र उवाच
Educational Q&A
Relying on one’s own strength and disciplined effort to live an elevated life leads to honorable reputation in this world and an auspicious destiny after death; the verse links personal valor and self-reliant striving with dharmic reward.
In Udyoga Parva’s counsel-filled context before the great war, the speaker (the son) states a maxim praising self-reliant valor: one who lives by his own strength gains both worldly fame and otherworldly good fortune.