Shloka 15
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
पर्वतोदधिसेविन्यो ह्यनिकेतास्तु सर्वशः ।
ता वै निष्कामचारिण्यो नित्यं मुदितमानसाः ॥
parvatodadhisevinyo hy aniketās tu sarvaśaḥ |
tā vai niṣkāmacāriṇyo nityaṃ muditamānasāḥ ||
Mereka berlindung pada gunung-ganang dan lautan, dan tidak mempunyai tempat tinggal tetap di mana-mana. Mereka mengembara tanpa keinginan, dengan hati yang sentiasa ceria.
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FAQs
Possessiveness and fixed accumulation are not treated as necessities of human life; the verse imagines an earlier mode where non-attachment (niṣkāmatā) correlates with joy (mudita). It implicitly critiques later acquisitiveness as a source of unrest.
Anucarita: characterization of a primordial age’s lifestyle and temperament rather than a deity-episode or a dynastic account.
‘Aniketa’ can symbolize the inner renunciate who does not ‘settle’ in any object-identity; ‘niṣkāma’ echoes karma-yoga ideals—action without craving—presented here as an original human disposition.