Shloka 48
अनुभूतानि दुः:खानि तेषां हेतुस्त्वमेव हि । दुःखान्येतानि जानीमो न सुखानि कदाचन
anubhūtāni duḥkhāni teṣāṃ hetus tvam eva hi | duḥkhāny etāni jānīmo na sukhāni kadācana
ഞങ്ങൾ അനുഭവിച്ച ദുഃഖങ്ങളുടെ യഥാർത്ഥ കാരണം നീ തന്നെയാണ്. ഞങ്ങൾ അറിഞ്ഞത് ഇത്രമാത്രം—ദുഃഖങ്ങൾ മാത്രം; ഒരിക്കലും സുഖമല്ല.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse stresses moral causality and personal responsibility: one’s present suffering is not merely fate or others’ doing, but arises from one’s own choices and actions; recognizing this is an ethical awakening aligned with the Mahābhārata’s emphasis on karma and accountability.
Sañjaya, reporting events and also offering pointed counsel, addresses his listener with a blunt assessment: the hardships being endured have been self-caused, and the situation has become so dominated by grief that only sorrow is felt, not happiness—an admonition framed within the grim momentum of the Kurukṣetra war.