Shloka 22
Adhyaya 16 — The Son’s Counsel on Renunciation and the Anasuya–Mandavya Episode: The Suspension of Sunrise and the Power of Pativrata
यदि सा चारुसर्वाङ्गी पीनश्रोणिपयोधरा । नोपगूहति तन्वङ्गी तन्मां द्रक्ष्यसि वै मृतम् ॥
yadi sā cārusarvāṅgī pīnaśroṇipayodharā / nopagūhati tanvaṅgī tanmāṃ drakṣyasi vai mṛtam
「もしあの細身の肢体の女—全身ことごとく美しく、豊かな腰と乳房を備えた者—が我を抱かぬなら、汝は必ず我が死を目の当たりにするであろう。」
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FAQs
The extremity of the ultimatum shows kāma turning into coercion and self-destruction; the passage warns that desire, when indulged, degrades discernment (viveka) and harms relationships.
Ethical/psychological instruction via narrative (ākhyāna), illustrating adharma born of kāma; not a pancalakṣaṇa cosmological topic.
The threat of ‘death’ can be read as the spiritual death of discrimination: when the mind demands sensory fulfillment as a condition for life, it reveals bondage; yoga seeks freedom from such compulsions.