Shloka 27

अध्याय २९४ — योगलक्षणम् तथा सांख्यपरिसंख्यानम्

Yoga Definition and Sāṃkhya Enumeration

Devanagari script

इष्टानिष्टसमायोगो वैरं सौहार्दमेव च । अथ जातिसहस्राणि बहूनि परिवर्तते,इष्ट और अनिष्टका संयोग, वैर और सौहार्द--इन सबका अनुभव करते-करते जीवके कई सहस्र जन्म बीत जाते हैं

Transliteration

iṣṭāniṣṭa-samāyogo vairaṁ sauhārdam eva ca | atha jāti-sahasrāṇi bahūni parivartate ||

Translation

Вновь и вновь встречаясь с приятным и неприятным — с враждой и также с дружбой — воплощённое существо продолжает вращаться в круговороте. И, переживая эти чередования, проходят многие тысячи рождений.

Word by Word

इष्टानिष्टसमायोगःthe conjunction/occurrence of the desired and the undesired

वैindeed

वैरम्enmity

सौहार्दम्friendship/cordiality

एवalso/just

चand

अथthen/thereupon

जातिbirths/classes (here: births)

सहस्राणिthousands

बहूनिmany

परिवर्ततेgoes through/undergoes/turns (i.e., transmigrates)

Speaker

पराशर उवाच

Characters & Entities

प

पराशर (Parāśara)

ज

जीव (jīva, the embodied being)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Life in saṁsāra is marked by alternating contacts with the pleasant and the unpleasant, and by shifting relations of enmity and friendship; being bound to these dualities, the jīva continues to revolve through countless births.

What is happening in the narrative?

Parāśara is instructing his listener in the Shānti Parva’s reflective mode, emphasizing the repetitive cycle of embodied existence driven by experiential opposites and relational attachments.