Shloka 11
Adhyaya 27 — Madālasa’s Instruction to King Alarka: Royal Ethics, Self-Conquest, and Statecraft
यस्त्वेतानविजित्यैव वैरिणो विजिगीषते ।
सोऽजितात्मा जितामात्यः शत्रुवर्गेण बाध्यते ॥
yas tv etān avijityaiva vairiṇo vijigīṣate /
so 'jitātmā jitāmātyaḥ śatruvargeṇa bādhyate
जो प्रथम या अंतर्गत दोषांना जिंकून न घेता, स्वतःचे मन अजिंक्य ठेवून—मंत्री वश झाले तरी—शत्रूंना जिंकू इच्छितो, तो शत्रुसैन्याने दडपला जातो।
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FAQs
Ambition without self-mastery is self-defeating: even if administrative machinery is forced into obedience, the ruler’s own ungoverned impulses create vulnerabilities that enemies exploit.
Ancillary nīti; not pancalakṣaṇa.
A mind that subdues externals but not itself is ‘split’; such inner incoherence invites ‘enemy forces’—stress, confusion, and reactive patterns—to dominate.