Shloka 27

Kṣemadarśa–Kālakavṛkṣīya Saṃvāda: Counsel on Impermanence, Non-attachment, and Composure in Dispossession

Devanagari script

मुनिर्वाच अनागतमतीतं च याथातथ्यविनिश्चयात्‌ । नानुशोचेत कौसल्य सर्वार्थेषु तथा भव,मुनिने कहा--कोसलराजकुमार! यथार्थ तत्त्वका निश्चय हो जानेपर मनुष्य भविष्य और भूतकालकी किसी भी वस्तुके लिये शोक नहीं करता। इसलिये तुम भी सभी पदार्थोंके विषयमें उसी तरह शोकरहित हो जाओ

Transliteration

munir uvāca anāgatam atītaṃ ca yāthātathya-viniścayāt | nānuśocet kausalyā sarvārtheṣu tathā bhava ||

Translation

मुनिरुवाच—अनागतमतीतं च याथातथ्यविनिश्चयात् नानुशोचेत, कौसल्य; सर्वार्थेषु तथा भव।

Word by Word

मुनिःthe sage

उवाचsaid

अनागतम्the future (that which has not come)

अतीतम्the past (that which has gone by)

चand

याथातथ्य-विनिश्चयात्from/through the ascertainment of reality (as it truly is)

नnot

अनुशोचेत्should grieve (over)

कौसल्यO son of Kausalyā (O prince of Kosala)

सर्वार्थेषुin all matters/objects

तथाthus/in that way

भवbe (become)

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

म

मुनि (the sage)

क

कौसल्य (prince of Kosala)

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?

True discernment of reality (yāthātathya-viniścaya) dissolves lamentation: one who understands things as they are does not grieve for what is past or what has not yet come, and should cultivate the same equanimity toward all matters.

What is happening in the narrative?

Within Bhīṣma’s instruction in the Śānti Parva, a sage’s counsel is cited: he addresses a Kosala prince (Kausalyā), urging him to abandon sorrow by grounding himself in clear knowledge of reality rather than being pulled by memories of the past or anxieties about the future.