An Exposition on the Causes of Happiness and Suffering
केचित्तृणेषु शेरन्ते ततो दुःखतरं नु किम् ॥ सुरूपो दृश्यते कश्चित्पुरुषश्चात्मकर्मभिः
kecit tṛṇeṣu śerante tato duḥkhataraṃ nu kim || surūpo dṛśyate kaścit puruṣaś cātma-karmabhiḥ
ある者は草の上に横たわる――これ以上の苦しみがあろうか。しかも、ある男は自らの業の力によって、端正な姿として見られる。
Varāha (default, instructional voice)
It exemplifies a karmic explanatory model for visible differences in human life (comfort, appearance), typical of Purāṇic ethical narration.
No geographic identifier appears in this verse.
To interpret social and bodily fortune as contingent and ethically conditioned (linked, in the text’s framework, to one’s own actions).
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