Shloka 21
अध्याय १९० — वामदेव-वाम्य-वृत्तान्तः
The Vāmadeva Horses Episode and the Ethics of Promise
साधुशिरोमणे! काम, क्रोध, हर्ष, भय और मोह--इन सभी विकारोंको मेरी ही रोमावली समझो
sādhuśiromaṇe! kāmaḥ, krodhaḥ, harṣaḥ, bhayaṃ ca mohaś ca—ete sarve vikārā mamaiva romāvalīṃ viddhi
ഹേ സാധുശിരോമണേ! കാമം, ക്രോധം, ഹർഷം, ഭയം, മോഹം—ഈ എല്ലാ വികാരങ്ങളെയും എന്റെ രോമാവലിരൂപങ്ങളെന്നു അറിയുക.
देव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that powerful emotions—desire, anger, joy, fear, and delusion—are natural modifications within the cosmic/divine order, yet they are still to be recognized and regulated. Ethical life requires awareness and mastery of these impulses rather than surrender to them.
A divine figure addresses a virtuous interlocutor, praising them and offering instruction. The deity uses a vivid metaphor—calling these emotional disturbances ‘my own body-hairs’—to convey that such states are inherent in embodied existence and must be understood in relation to the divine reality.