Shanti Parva Adhyaya 153 Shloka 163 - Mahabharata | Marathi | Vedapath

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Shloka 163

अज्ञान–लोभयोः परस्परहेतुत्वम्

Mutual Causality of Ignorance and Greed

Devanagari script

त्यजतां जीवितं श्रेयो निवृत्ते पुण्यपापके । इस संसारके सम्पूर्ण प्राणियोंमें जब दुःख ही नहीं है

Transliteration

śaunaka uvāca | tyajatāṃ jīvitaṃ śreyo nivṛtte puṇya-pāpake |

Translation

ज्यांचे पुण्य आणि पाप—दोन्ही निवृत्त झाले आहेत, त्यांच्यासाठी तर जीवनाचा त्यागही श्रेयस्कर मानला जातो. कारण या संसारात दुःख नसताना सुख कुठून मिळणार? सुख-दुःख हे प्रकृतिस्थ प्राण्यांचे धर्म आहेत; संसर्गाच्या दोषांमधून ते उत्पन्न होतात. परंतु ज्यांनी ममता व अहंकारासह सर्व काही त्यागले आहे आणि ज्यांचे पुण्य-पाप शांत झाले आहे—अशा पुरुषांचे जीवनच कल्याणमय ठरते।

Word by Word

त्यजताम्let them abandon / may they give up

जीवितम्life

श्रेयःthe better (good), welfare

निवृत्तेwhen (both) have ceased / upon cessation (of both)

पुण्यपापकेin merit-and-sin (in the pair of virtue and vice)

Speaker

शौनक उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śaunaka

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

True welfare (śreyas) lies in detachment: when ego and possessiveness are abandoned and the dualities of merit and sin no longer bind, one’s life becomes intrinsically auspicious; pleasure and pain are seen as natural to embodied existence under prakṛti.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the didactic setting of Śānti Parva, Śaunaka speaks a reflective teaching on the inevitability of pleasure and pain for embodied beings and praises the state of renunciation in which both puṇya and pāpa have ceased to operate.