Shloka 9
Adhyaya 62 — The Fire-God Enters the Brahmin Youth; Varuthini’s Love-Sickness and Kali’s Disguise
न विहारे न चाहारे रमणीयॆ न वा वने ।
न कन्दरॆषु रम्यॆषु सा बबन्ध तदा रतिम् ॥
na vihāre na cāhāre ramaṇīye na vā vane | na kandareṣu ramyeṣu sā babandha tadā ratim ||
அப்போது அவளுக்கு விளையாட்டிலும், உணவிலும், இனிய காடிலும், கவர்ச்சியான குகைகளிலும் மகிழ்ச்சி இல்லை; அவளுடைய இன்பம் எங்கும் பற்றிக் கொள்ளவில்லை।
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FAQs
Obsessive attachment eclipses ordinary joys—food, leisure, and nature lose their charm—showing how rāga can monopolize the mind and generate suffering by narrowing the field of experience.
Narrative ethics/psychology; not pañcalakṣaṇa.
When consciousness is ‘bound’ to a single object, pratyāhāra occurs in a distorted form: the senses withdraw not into inner freedom but into fixation—an inversion of yogic withdrawal.