Shloka 36
Dharma-śaṅkā-nivāraṇa: Yudhiṣṭhira’s Response on Karma-Phala and Trust in Dharma
तथैव धाता भूतानामिष्टानिष्टफलप्रद: । यदि न स्यान्न भूतानां कृषपणो नाम कश्नन,क्योंकि यदि ईश्वर सब प्राणियोंको इष्ट-अनिष्टरूप फल नहीं देते तो उन प्राणियोंमेंसे कोई भी दीन नहीं होता
tathaiva dhātā bhūtānām iṣṭāniṣṭaphalapradaḥ | yadi na syān na bhūtānāṁ kṛpaṇo nāma kaścana ||
Юдхиштхира сказал: «Так же и Устроитель существ, Дхата (Dhātā), — дарующий плоды, желанные и нежеланные. Если бы Он не был таков, то среди тварей не нашлось бы никого, кого можно было бы назвать несчастным или нищим; ибо именно распределение смешанных исходов повергает некоторых в нужду.»
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames worldly inequality and suffering as arising from the dispensation of mixed outcomes (iṣṭa/aniṣṭa phala). A moral order operates in which beings receive pleasant and unpleasant results; without such allotment, the category of the ‘wretched’ (kṛpaṇa) would not arise.
Yudhiṣṭhira is reasoning about the structure of moral causality and divine governance: the cosmic Ordainer is described as the bestower of both favorable and unfavorable fruits, explaining why some beings experience hardship while others do not.