Shloka 82
Adhyaya 43 — Portents of Death (Ariṣṭa-lakṣaṇas) and the Yogin’s Response; Alarka Renounces Kingship
सोऽहं न तेऽरिर्न ममासि शत्रुः सुबाहुरेषो न ममापकारी ।
दृष्टं मया सर्वमिदं यथात्मा अन्विष्यतां भूप ! रिपुस्त्वयान्यः ॥
so 'haṃ na te 'rir na mamāsi śatruḥ subāhur eṣo na mamāpakārī |
dṛṣṭaṃ mayā sarvam idaṃ yathātmā anviṣyatāṃ bhūpa ripus tvayānyaḥ ||
ข้าพเจ้าไม่ใช่ศัตรูของท่าน และท่านก็ไม่ใช่คู่เวรของข้าพเจ้า สุพาหุผู้นี้ก็หาใช่ผู้กระทำผิดแก่ข้าพเจ้าไม่ ข้าพเจ้าเห็นสิ่งทั้งปวงเป็นอาตมัน โอ้พระราชา จงแสวงหาเถิด—ศัตรูนั้นเป็นอย่างอื่น (มิใช่ดังที่ท่านสำคัญ).
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FAQs
Hostility is often misdirected; the true adversary is ignorance and the passions that arise from it. The verse models peacemaking grounded in self-knowledge rather than mere diplomacy.
Ethical-philosophical counsel within narrative (dharma/upadeśa), not a direct statement of sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita.
Seeing ‘all as the Self’ (yathātmā) collapses the subject–object split that generates ‘enemy.’ The instruction ‘seek the enemy elsewhere’ points inward to the ego-sense and its projections.