Shloka 37

Devanagari script

अजसमेव दु:खार्तो5दु:ःखित: सुखसंज्ञित: । ततो<निवृत्तबन्धत्वात्‌ कर्मणामुदयादपि

Transliteration

ajasam eva duḥkhārto 'duḥkhitaḥ sukhasaṃjñitaḥ | tato 'nivṛttabandhatvāt karmaṇām udayād api ||

Translation

บุคคลแม้แท้จริงจะระทมทุกข์ ก็ยังถูกนับ—และแม้ตนเองก็หลงนับ—ว่า “ไม่ทุกข์” และ “เป็นสุข” เพราะยังมิได้ถอนตนจากความยึดติด; แม้ผลแห่งกรรมจะปรากฏขึ้นแล้วก็ตาม ตราบใดที่ความยึดติดยังคงอยู่ พันธนาการก็ยังคงอยู่

Word by Word

अजसम्continually, incessantly

एवindeed, just

दुःखार्तःafflicted by sorrow

अदुःखितःnot sorrowful, untroubled

सुखसंज्ञितःcalled/considered happy

ततःthereupon, then; from that

अनिवृत्तबन्धत्वात्because of the state of unbroken bondage

कर्मणाम्of actions (karmas)

उदयात्from arising, from the rise

अपिalso, even

Speaker

व्याध उवाच

Characters & Entities

व

व्याध (the hunter)

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Suffering and happiness are often labels sustained by attachment. As long as one does not withdraw from attachment, one remains bound—even when actions ‘bear fruit’; liberation requires turning back from clinging, not merely changing external circumstances.

What is happening in the narrative?

The hunter (Vyādha), instructing on dharma, explains the psychology of bondage: people may appear or claim to be happy despite real distress, because attachment continues; he uses this to emphasize renunciation of attachment as the ethical-spiritual remedy.