Shloka 41
Adhyaya 18 — Arjuna Declines the Throne; Garga Directs Him to Dattatreya; The Gods Defeat the Daityas through Dattatreya’s Vision and the Movement of Lakshmi
ते तां दृष्ट्वाग्रतो दैत्याḥ साभिलाषा मनोभवम् ।
न शेषुरुद्धतं धैर्यान्मनसा वोढुमातुराः ॥
te tāṃ dṛṣṭvāgrato daityāḥ sābhilāṣā manobhavam | na śeṣur uddhataṃ dhairyān manasā voḍhum āturāḥ ||
彼女を目前にすると、ダイティヤたちは渇望に満たされ、欲望に打たれた。心に湧き上がる激情に耐えられず、もはや平静を保てなかった。
FAQs
Unrestrained desire destabilizes discernment (viveka). The Daityas’ inability to ‘bear it in the mind’ marks the inner defeat that precedes outer wrongdoing.
Didactic narrative illustrating dharma through psychology; not a pancalakṣaṇa enumerative section.
‘Manobhava’ indicates that bondage begins as a mental construction. The ‘turbulence’ is the prāṇic/psychic disturbance that arises when attention collapses into craving.