Adhyaya 43 — Portents of Death (Ariṣṭa-lakṣaṇas) and the Yogin’s Response; Alarka Renounces Kingship
चिच्छक्तिरेक एवायं यदा नान्योऽस्ति कश्चन ।
तदा का नृपते ज्ञानान्मित्रारिप्रभुभृत्यता ॥
cicchaktir eka evāyaṃ yadā nānyo 'sti kaścana |
tadā kā nṛpate jñānān mitrāri-prabhu-bhṛtyatā ||
ആ ഒരേയൊരു ചൈതന്യശക്തി മാത്രമേ നിലനിൽക്കുകയുള്ളൂ, അതിന് പുറമെ മറ്റൊന്നുമില്ലെങ്കിൽ, ഹേ രാജാവേ, ജ്ഞാനം ഉദിച്ച ശേഷം ‘സുഹൃത്ത്’ ‘ശത്രു’ അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ‘സ്വാമി’ ‘ദാസൻ’ എന്ന ധാരണകൾക്ക് എവിടെ ഇടം ശേഷിക്കും?
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Realization of the one Consciousness dissolves social and psychological binaries (friend/enemy, ruler/ruled). Ethically, it urges the king to act without egoic hostility and to see conflict as arising from misapprehension.
Primarily Dharma/Upadeśa within Itihāsa-style narrative; it is not sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita proper, but an instructive passage embedded in royal genealogy-like storytelling (vaṃśānucarita-adjacent).
‘Cit-śakti’ as the sole reality implies that all relational identities are superimpositions (adhyāropa). The verse points to inner sovereignty: conquering the sense of ‘other’ is the true conquest.