Shloka 40
Droṇa’s Conditional Boon: The Plan to Capture Yudhiṣṭhira (द्रोणेन युधिष्ठिरग्रहणोपायः)
मोहाद् दुर्योधन: कृष्णं यो न वेत्तीह केशवम् | मोहितो दैवयोगेन मृत्युपाशपुरस्कृत:,दुर्योधन मोहवश सच्चिदानन्दस्वरूप भगवान् केशवको नहीं जानता है, वह दैवयोगसे मोहित हो मौतके फंदेमें फँस गया
mohād duryodhanaḥ kṛṣṇaṃ yo na vettīha keśavam | mohito daivayogena mṛtyupāśapuraskṛtaḥ ||
ਮੋਹ ਦੇ ਕਾਰਨ ਦੁਰਯੋਧਨ ਇੱਥੇ ਕੇਸ਼ਵ ਸ੍ਰੀਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਨ ਨੂੰ ਨਹੀਂ ਪਛਾਣਦਾ। ਦੈਵ-ਯੋਗ ਨਾਲ ਭਟਕਿਆ ਹੋਇਆ ਉਹ ਮੌਤ ਦੀ ਫਾਹੀ ਨੂੰ ਅੱਗੇ ਰੱਖ ਕੇ ਹੀ ਅੱਗੇ ਵਧ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੈ।
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Delusion (moha) can make a person fail to recognize truth and divine guidance even when it is directly present. Such blindness, intensified by the momentum of fate (daivayoga), drives one toward self-destruction—symbolized by the 'noose of death' set ahead.
The narrator Vaiśampāyana comments on Duryodhana’s condition: despite Kṛṣṇa being present and acting as a decisive force in the war, Duryodhana cannot comprehend who Kṛṣṇa truly is. This ignorance is portrayed as a fatal delusion leading him onward toward inevitable ruin.