Shloka 23
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
भृत्यतां दासतां चैव गतोऽस्मि बहुशो नृणाम् ।
स्वामित्वमीश्वरत्वं च दरिद्रत्वं तथा गतः ॥
bhṛtyatāṃ dāsatāṃ caiva gato 'smi bahuśo nṛṇām /
svāmitvam īśvaratvaṃ ca daridratvaṃ tathā gataḥ
പലവട്ടം ഞാൻ മനുഷ്യരിൽ സേവകനായും ദാസനായും പതിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്; അതുപോലെ അധിപത്യം, പ്രഭുത്വം ലഭിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്—ദാരിദ്ര്യവും അനുഭവിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്।
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FAQs
The verse undermines attachment to rank and wealth by showing their cyclical alternation; ethical steadiness should not depend on fortune or status.
Functions as dharma/mokṣa instruction within narrative; it is not directly Sarga/Pratisarga/Manvantara/Vaṃśa/Vaṃśānucarita in a technical sense.
Servant/master polarity points to the ego’s shifting identifications; liberation requires disidentifying from both ‘I rule’ and ‘I am ruled’.