Shloka 16

Devanagari script

कामतृत्ता: प्रमोदन्ते सर्वकामसमृद्धिभि: । अर्वाक्स्रोतस इत्येते मनुष्या रजसा वृता:,जो इस पृथ्वीपर भूत, वर्तमान और भविष्य पदार्थोकी चिन्ता करते हैं, धर्म, अर्थ और कामरूप त्रिवर्गके सेवनमें लगे रहते हैं, मनमाना बर्ताव करते हैं और सब प्रकारके भोगोंकी समृद्धिसे आनन्द मानते हैं, वे मनुष्य रजोगुणसे आवृत हैं, उन्हें अर्वाकृख्रोता कहते हैं

Transliteration

kāmatṛptāḥ pramodante sarvakāmasamṛddhibhiḥ | arvāksrotasa ity ete manuṣyā rajasā vṛtāḥ ||

Translation

วายุตรัสว่า “ผู้ใดอิ่มเอมเพียงด้วยความใคร่ แล้วเริงร่าในความสมบูรณ์แห่งความเพลิดเพลินทั้งปวง—ผู้นั้นถูกห่อหุ้มด้วยรชัส; เขาถูกเรียกว่า ‘อรวากสฺโรตัส’ คือผู้ที่กระแสจิตไหลลงต่ำ มุ่งสู่อารมณ์แห่งอินทรีย์.”

Word by Word

कामतृप्ताःsatiated with desires

प्रमोदन्तेrejoice

सर्वकामसमृद्धिभिःby/with the abundance of all enjoyments

अर्वाक्स्रोतसःthose whose stream flows downward (worldward)

इतिthus

एतेthese

मनुष्याःmen, humans

रजसाby rajas (the quality of passion/activity)

वृताःcovered, enveloped

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vāyudeva

manuṣyāḥ (human beings)

rajas (rajo-guṇa)

arvāksrotas (classification of beings)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

A life driven by kāma (desire) and delighting in the plenty of enjoyments is characterized as rājasic: energetic and restless, but ethically and spiritually downward-leaning. The verse warns that such desire-satiation is not true fulfillment; it marks a consciousness oriented toward external gratification rather than inner clarity and higher aims.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva is describing a category of human disposition. He identifies people who revel in sense-pleasures and worldly abundance as being covered by rajas and labels them ‘arvāksrotas,’ indicating their tendency to flow toward lower, outward pursuits.