Shloka 21
Adhyaya 20 — Ritadhvaja’s Companionship with the Naga Princes and the Origin of the Horse Kuvalaya
तस्योपचारसम्प्रीति-सम्भोगापहृतं मनः ।
नागलोके भुवर्लोके न रतिं विन्दते पितः ॥
tasyopacāra-samprīti-sambhogāpahṛtaṃ manaḥ |
nāgaloke bhuvarloke na ratiṃ vindate pitaḥ ||
ಆ (ರಾಜಕುಮಾರನ) ಸತ್ಕಾರ, ಸ್ನೇಹ ಮತ್ತು ಸಹವಾಸದಿಂದ ನಮ್ಮ ಮನಸ್ಸು ಅಪಹೃತವಾಗಿದೆ; ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ನಾಗಲೋಕದಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಭೂಲೋಕದಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಯಾವುದಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ನಮಗೆ ರಮಣೀಯತೆ ಇಲ್ಲ।
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FAQs
Pleasure is not guaranteed by location or abundance; rati follows the mind’s attachment. When the mind is ‘carried off’ by one relationship, other enjoyments lose their taste—showing the sovereignty of manas over experience.
Narrative psychology within an upākhyāna; cosmological terms (nāga-loka, bhuvar-loka) appear incidentally.
‘Upacāra’ and ‘samprīti’ are subtle binders: even sattvic sweetness can bind if it becomes the sole source of rati; liberation requires relocating delight from objects to the Self.