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Shloka 4

अध्याय ३३ — धृतराष्ट्रस्य कुशलप्रश्नाः तथा विदुरस्य योगसमाधिः

Chapter 33: Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Welfare-Inquiries and Vidura’s Yogic Absorption

Devanagari script

वैशम्पायन उवाच अविप्रणाश: सर्वेषां कर्मणामिति निश्चय: । कर्मजानि शरीराणि तथैवाकृतयो नृप

Transliteration

Vaiśampāyana uvāca: avipraṇāśaḥ sarveṣāṃ karmaṇām iti niścayaḥ | karmajāni śarīrāṇi tathaivākṛtayo nṛpa ||

Translation

ไวศัมปายนะกล่าวว่า “ข้าแต่พระราชา นี่คือข้อยุติแน่นอนว่า กรรมทั้งปวงย่อมไม่สูญสิ้นไปโดยไม่ให้ผลก่อน และสรรพชีวิตได้กายที่ตนรับมา ตลอดจนรูปภาวะนานาประการ ก็ล้วนเกิดแต่กรรม”

Word by Word

वैशम्पायनःVaishampayana

उवाचsaid

अविप्रणाशःnon-destruction; not perishing

सर्वेषाम्of all

कर्मणाम्of actions (karmas)

इतिthus

निश्चयःcertainty; settled conclusion

कर्मजानिborn of karma; produced by actions

शरीराणिbodies

तथाso; likewise

एवindeed; just

आकृतयःforms; shapes; appearances

नृपO king

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

nṛpa (king, addressee)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Karma is inescapably consequential: actions do not simply vanish; they mature into results. Embodiment itself—one’s body and the particular form or condition one experiences—is presented as a product of past deeds.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana addresses a king and states a doctrinal conclusion about moral causality: the inevitability of karmic fruition and the karmic origin of bodies and life-conditions, setting an ethical frame for interpreting suffering, fate, and responsibility.