Shloka 4
Udyoga Parva, Adhyaya 104: Nārada on Suhṛt and Nirbandha; the Viśvāmitra–Gālava Exemplum Begins
निसर्गात् सर्वभूतानां सर्वभूतेश्वरेण मे । आहारो विदितो धात्रा किमर्थ वार्यते त्वया,समस्त प्राणियोंके स्वामी विधाताने सम्पूर्ण प्राणियोंकी सृष्टि करते समय मेरा आहार निश्चित कर दिया था। फिर आप किसलिये उसमें बाधा उपस्थित करते हैं?
nisargāt sarvabhūtānāṁ sarvabhūteśvareṇa me | āhāro vidito dhātrā kimarthaṁ vāryate tvayā ||
ธาตาผู้เป็นเจ้าเหนือสรรพสัตว์ได้กำหนดอาหารของข้าไว้ตั้งแต่คราวสร้างโลกแล้ว เหตุใดท่านจึงมาขัดขวางสิ่งที่ผู้กำหนดได้กำหนดไว้?
गरुड उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames a moral argument from cosmic order: each being’s sustenance is assigned by the Creator according to its nature. Garuda appeals to this ordained arrangement to question human (or other) interference, raising the ethical tension between compassion and the legitimacy of a creature’s natural, divinely allotted means of survival.
Garuda confronts someone who is trying to stop him from taking his customary food. He argues that his diet was fixed at creation by Dhātṛ, the cosmic Ordainer, and therefore asks why the other party is placing an obstacle in what has been divinely determined.