Shloka 6

Bhīmasena’s Counsel on Grief, Inner Conflict, and the Duty of Kingship (भीमसेन-उपदेशः)

Devanagari script

अगतिक्न गतिश्वैव लोकस्य विदिता तव । आयत्यां च तदात्वे च न ते<स्त्यविदितं प्रभो

Transliteration

agatiṁ ca gatiṁ caiva lokasya viditā tava | āyatyāṁ ca tadātve ca na te 'sty aviditaṁ prabho ||

Translation

ဝိုင်ရှမ္ပါယနက ပြောသည်– «အရှင်တော်၊ လောက၏ ကျဆုံးရာလမ်းနှင့် မှန်ကန်ရာလမ်း နှစ်ပါးလုံးကို သင်ကောင်းစွာ သိ၏။ အနာဂတ်၌ ဖြစ်မည့်အရာနှင့် ပစ္စုပ္ပန်၌ ဖြစ်နေသောအရာတို့တွင် သင်မသိသေးသောအရာ မရှိ»။

Word by Word

• {'agatiṁ': 'non-course

• a state with no proper way forward', 'gatiṁ': 'course

• proper outcome', 'ca ... caiva': 'both ... and indeed', 'lokasya': 'of the world

• of people/society', 'viditā': 'known

• understood', 'tava': 'to you

• your', 'āyatyām': 'in the future

• in what is to come', 'tadātve': 'in the present moment

• in the immediate now', 'na': 'not', 'te': 'to you

• for you', 'asti': 'is

• exists', 'aviditam': 'unknown

• not understood', 'prabho': 'O lord

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• prabhu (addressed lord)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

A ruler (or moral agent) should not succumb to confusion or despair when endowed with discernment; true wisdom recognizes both the right course (gati) and the disastrous course (agati), and acts with clarity about present duties and future consequences.

What is happening in the narrative?

Within the Shanti Parva’s instruction-oriented setting, the speaker underscores the addressee’s comprehensive understanding—of worldly outcomes and of time (present and future)—as a way to steady and admonish him toward resolute, dharmic judgment.