Shloka 9
Śoka-śamana: Kṛṣṇa’s Consolation and Nārada’s Exempla to Sṛñjaya
Chapter 29
स्वप्नलब्धा यथा लाभा वितथा: प्रतिबोधने । एवं ते क्षत्रिया राजन ये व्यतीता महारणे
svapnalabdhā yathā lābhā vitathāḥ pratibodhane | evaṁ te kṣatriyā rājan ye vyatītā mahāraṇe ||
ರಾಜನೇ! ಕನಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ದೊರೆತ ಲಾಭ ಜಾಗೃತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಳ್ಳಾಗುವಂತೆ, ಮಹಾಯುದ್ಧದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಗಲಿದ ನಿನ್ನ ಕ್ಷತ್ರಿಯರನ್ನು ಈಗ ಕಾಣುವುದು ದುರ್ಲಭ.
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches impermanence: what seems possessed can vanish like dream-wealth at waking. Likewise, the fallen warriors cannot be reclaimed; wisdom lies in accepting the irreversible and loosening attachment to what has passed.
Vāyudeva addresses a king, using the metaphor of dream-gains to explain that the kṣatriyas who died in the great battle are gone beyond retrieval, emphasizing the finality of death after war.