Shloka 4

नरनारायण-नारदसंवादः

Nara-Nārāyaṇa–Nārada Discourse on Vision, Elements, and Entry into Vāsudeva

Devanagari script

व्यथितस्य विधित्साभिस्ताम्यतो जीवितैषिण: । अवशस्य विनाशाय शरीरमपकृष्यते,तृष्णासे व्यथित, दुखी एवं विवश होकर जीनेकी इच्छा रखनेवाले मनुष्यका शरीर विनाशकी ओर ही खिंचता चला जाता है

Transliteration

vyathitasya vidhitsābhis tāmyato jīvitaiṣiṇaḥ | avaśasya vināśāya śarīram apakṛṣyate ||

Translation

Нарада сказал: Того, кто истерзан — терзаем жаждой и беспокойными побуждениями, кто изнемогает, но всё же цепляется за жизнь, — его тело, бессильное, увлекается и тащится к погибели.

Word by Word

व्यथितस्यof the afflicted/distressed (one)

विधित्साभिःby intentions/efforts (to do/arrange)

ताम्यतःof the languishing/tormented (one)

जीवितैषिणःof one desiring life

अवशस्यof the helpless (one)

विनाशायtowards destruction

शरीरम्the body

अपकृष्यतेis drawn/pulled (away)

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Nārada

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Craving-driven agitation weakens a person from within; when one becomes powerless under desire, the body and life-force decline and move toward ruin. The ethical lesson is to cultivate restraint and inner steadiness rather than being driven by compulsive wanting.

What is happening in the narrative?

Nārada is instructing his listener in a reflective, didactic mode typical of Śānti Parva, describing the psychological condition of a desire-tormented person and its consequence: despite wanting to live, such a person is helplessly carried toward destruction by the very forces of craving and distress.