Shloka 14
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
तृप्तिं स्वाभाविकीं प्राप्ता विषयेषु महामते ।
न तासां प्रतिघातोऽस्ति न द्वेषो नापि मत्सरः ॥
tṛptiṃ svābhāvikīṃ prāptā viṣayeṣu mahāmate |
na tāsāṃ pratighāto 'sti na dveṣo nāpi matsaraḥ ||
ഹേ മഹാമതേ, ഇന്ദ്രിയസുഖങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ച് അവർ സ്വാഭാവികമായ സംതൃപ്തി പ്രാപിച്ചു. അവർക്കു തടസ്സമോ കലഹമോ ഇല്ല—ദ്വേഷവും അസൂയയും ഇല്ല.
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FAQs
A stable society begins with inner sufficiency: when contentment is ‘svābhāvika,’ rivalry and harm do not arise. The Purāṇic ethic here is that envy (matsara) and hatred (dveṣa) are symptoms of inner lack and social decline.
Anucarita (descriptive account of an age’s character) within a broader cosmological narration; it outlines the moral-psychological texture of that yuga.
Natural contentment in viṣayas suggests that objects do not tyrannize the mind; the mind remains less ‘sticky’ (less rāga-dveṣa). This points toward a sattva-leaning collective psyche where dvandvas lose their bite.