Shloka 3
Adhyaya 71 — The King’s Remorse and the Sage’s Counsel on the Necessity of a Wife
सोऽहं कथं करिष्यामि त्यक्ता पत्नी मया हि सा ।
अथवा ज्ञानदृष्टिं तं पृच्छामि मुनिसत्तमम् ॥
so 'haṃ kathaṃ kariṣyāmi tyaktā patnī mayā hi sā / athavā jñānadṛṣṭiṃ taṃ pṛcchāmi munisattamam
“ਮੈਂ ਕੀ ਕਰਾਂ, ਕਿਉਂਕਿ ਮੈਂ ਉਸਨੂੰ ਸੱਚਮੁੱਚ ਪਤਨੀ ਵਜੋਂ ਤਿਆਗ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਸੀ? ਜਾਂ—ਜ੍ਞਾਨ-ਦ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਟੀ ਨਾਲ ਯੁਕਤ ਉਸ ਸ਼੍ਰੇਸ਼ਠ ਮੁਨੀ ਨੂੰ ਮੈਂ ਪੁੱਛਾਂਗਾ।”
FAQs
When dharma is complex and one’s own actions are implicated, the proper course is to seek guidance from a realized authority (jñāna-dṛṣṭi), not to improvise self-justifying solutions.
A manvantara-era moral narrative illustrating dharma through the king’s recourse to a ṛṣi.
Turning to ‘knowledge-vision’ implies shifting from reactive emotion to discriminative insight (viveka), a movement from rājasic agitation toward sattvic clarity.