Shloka 21
भरतस्य प्रार्थना—रामस्य कालधर्मोपदेशः
Bharata’s Petition and Rama’s Instruction on Time and Mortality
आत्मानमनुशोच त्वं किमन्यमनुशोचसि।आयुस्ते हीयते यस्य स्थितस्य च गतस्य च।।2.105.21।।
ātmānam anuśoca tvaṃ kim anyam anuśocasi | āyus te hīyate yasya sthitasya ca gatasya ca ||2.105.21||
ਤੂੰ ਆਪਣੇ ਲਈ ਹੀ ਵਿਲਾਪ ਕਰ; ਦੂਜੇ ਲਈ ਕਿਉਂ ਵਿਲਾਪ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈਂ? ਕਿਉਂਕਿ ਤੇਰੀ ਆਯੁ ਖੜ੍ਹਿਆਂ ਵੀ ਤੇ ਤੁਰਦਿਆਂ ਵੀ ਘਟਦੀ ਜਾਂਦੀ ਹੈ।
Whether you are static or moving, your lifespan decreases. Therefore, you should only grieve about yourself and not for any one else.
FAQs
It teaches measured grief and self-governance: excessive lamentation wastes the very life with which one must perform dharma.
The speaker redirects attention from helpless sorrow to the reality that time is consuming the listener’s own life.
Ātma-saṃyama (self-control): restraining emotion to preserve clarity for righteous action.