Shloka 3
The Vision of Mohinī (मोहिनी-दर्शनम्)
परसेवनया चैव वेतनेन भुजिक्रिया । निवसन्दुःखसंतप्तो बहुवर्षाणि पार्थिव ॥ ३ ॥
parasevanayā caiva vetanena bhujikriyā | nivasanduḥkhasaṃtapto bahuvarṣāṇi pārthiva || 3 ||
परसेवनया च वेतनलाभेन च जीविकां कृत्वा सः पार्थिव, दुःखतापेन दग्धः बहुवर्षाणि न्यवसत्।
Suta (narrating to the assembled sages)
Vrata: none
Rasa: {"primary_rasa":"karuna","secondary_rasa":"shanta","emotional_journey":"Begins with the humility of service-for-wages and culminates in the image of prolonged, burning suffering, evoking compassion and sober detachment."}
FAQs
It highlights the weariness inherent in a life sustained merely by worldly dependence—service for wages—showing how prolonged material survival can still be marked by deep duḥkha, thereby preparing the listener for the turn toward higher dharma and sacred recourse.
By contrasting wage-bound existence with sustained suffering, the verse implicitly points to bhakti and sacred refuge (often taught in the Purana through tīrtha and Vishnu-oriented acts) as the higher alternative that transforms inner condition rather than only maintaining the body.
No specific Vedāṅga (like Vyākaraṇa, Jyotiṣa, or Śikṣā) is taught in this line; the practical takeaway is ethical and existential—mere economic maintenance (bhujikriyā) does not by itself resolve duḥkha without dharmic/spiritual orientation.