Shloka 19
Adhyaya 65 — Svarocis Enjoys on the Mountain; A Debate on Marital Fidelity and Desire
सर्वसत्त्वृतज्ञोऽसौ स्वरोचिरपराजितः ।
निशम्य लज्जितो दध्यौ सत्यमेव हि नानृतम् ॥
sarvasattvarutajño 'sau svarociraparājitaḥ |
niśamya lajjito dadhyau satyam eva hi nānṛtam ||
तो, जो सर्व प्राण्यांचे स्वर जाणत होता, (तरीही) स्वरॊचीने जिंकला जाऊन, हे ऐकून लज्जित झाला आणि विचार करू लागला—‘खरेच हे सत्य आहे, असत्य नाही.’
FAQs
Moral correction begins when one can still feel shame and accept truth. The verse frames conscience as a cognitive event: hearing a rebuke, reflecting, and assenting to satya.
Not pañcalakṣaṇa; it is ethical narrative (vaṃśānucarita-style storytelling may surround it, but this line itself is nīti-dharma).
‘Knowing all creatures’ cries’ suggests heightened sensitivity; yet being ‘overcome’ indicates that knowledge without self-mastery fails. Satya is presented as the restoring principle.