Shloka 45
Adhyaya 20 — Ritadhvaja’s Companionship with the Naga Princes and the Origin of the Horse Kuvalaya
समाधिध्यानयुक्तस्य मौनव्रतरतस्य च ।
तथा करोति विघ्राणि यथा चलति मे मनः ॥
samādhidhyānayuktasya maunavrataratasya ca | tathā karoti vighrāṇi yathā calati me manaḥ ||
समाधिध्यानपरायणे मौनव्रतसमन्विते जनस्य, स एवमवरोधान् करोति यथा मे मनः चञ्चलं विचलति।
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FAQs
Spiritual life is not merely private effort; it can be threatened by hostile forces and social disorder. The text underscores the fragility of concentration and the duty to remove vighnas so that dharma-practice can continue.
Ākhyāna with yogic instruction-by-example; it supports dharma and tapas but is not itself a cosmological or genealogical enumeration.
The mind’s wavering is the primary ‘damage’; the external demon mirrors inner distraction. The verse points to the yogic insight that vighnas are known by their effect—loss of steadiness (cittasya calatā).