Shloka 5
Adhyaya 37 — Alarka’s Crisis and the Teaching on Non-Attachment (Madālasa’s Instruction Recalled)
एवं बहूनि वर्षाणि तस्य पालयतो महीम् ।
धर्मार्थकामसक्तस्य जग्मुरेकमहर्ह्यथा ॥
evaṃ bahūni varṣāṇi tasya pālayato mahīm |
dharmārtha-kāma-saktasya jagmur eka-mahar yathā ||
एवं स पृथिवीं पालयन् धर्मार्थकामनिरतः बहूनि वर्षाण्यतिचक्राम; तस्य तानि दिनमिवैकं बभूवुः।
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FAQs
Absorption in worldly aims makes time feel compressed; the verse foreshadows that even a ‘successful’ trivarga life can drift without reflection, setting the stage for later awakening or crisis.
Vaṃśānucarita (narration of a king’s career) rather than sarga/pratisarga/manvantara.
The ‘many years as one day’ motif points to the dreamlike quality of saṃsāric engagement: when consciousness is outward-turned, life is ‘spent’ rather than ‘known’.