Shloka 34
Adhyaya 16 — The Son’s Counsel on Renunciation and the Anasuya–Mandavya Episode: The Suspension of Sunrise and the Power of Pativrata
अहोरात्रव्यवस्थाया विना मासर्तुसंक्षयः ।
तत्संक्षयान्न त्वयने ज्ञायेते दक्षिणोत्तरे ॥
ahorātravyavasthāyā vinā māsartusaṃkṣayaḥ |
tatsaṃkṣayānna tvayane jñāyete dakṣiṇottare ||
अहोरात्रयोः, मासऋतूनां च यथाक्रमविन्यासाभावे लुप्येरन्; तेषु लुप्तेषु दक्षिणोत्तरायणे अपि न ज्ञेयेताम्।
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FAQs
Regularity (niyama) is presented as the backbone of both ritual life and cosmic intelligibility: when basic rhythms (day/night) are disrupted, higher-order structures (seasons, ayanas) become unintelligible—an ethical warning against negligence of sustaining practices.
Touches Sarga/Pratisarga indirectly by describing the operational order of creation (kāla-vyavasthā). It also supports Manvantara-style chronology by grounding how larger temporal divisions are recognized.
Day/night can be read as prāṇa’s alternations and awareness cycles; months/seasons as subtler periodicities. Losing the ‘ahorātra’ discipline symbolizes loss of inner rhythm, making higher discernment (ayana—direction of spiritual course) impossible.