Shloka 4
Adhyaya 6 — Balarama’s Dilemma, Drunken Wanderings in Revata’s Grove, and the Slaying of the Suta
तीर्थेष्वाप्लावयिष्यामि तावदात्मानमात्मना ।
कुरूणां पाण्डवानां च यावदन्ताय कल्पते ॥
tīrtheṣv āplāvayiṣyāmi tāvad ātmānam ātmanā / kurūṇāṃ pāṇḍavānāṃ ca yāvad antāya kalpate
จนกว่าจะถึงกาลอันเหมาะสมที่จะยุติศึกระหว่างกุรุและปาณฑพ ข้าพเจ้าจักไปอาบชำระ ณ ตีรถะทั้งหลาย ชำระตนให้บริสุทธิ์ด้วยความเพียรของตนเอง।
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FAQs
The verse emphasizes self-responsibility in purification: one refines the self “by oneself” (ātmanā). It also conveys restraint—waiting for the ‘fitting time’ to resolve or conclude a grave social conflict—suggesting that dharmic action includes timing, preparation, and inner cleansing rather than impulsive intervention.
This line is not primarily sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita in content; it functions as narrative-ethical framing (vaṃśānucarita-adjacent insofar as it references the Kuru–Pāṇḍava dynastic conflict), but its dominant role is dharma-oriented instruction within the dialogue.
‘Bathing in tīrthas’ can be read outwardly as ritual purification and inwardly as cleansing the mind through disciplined practice. The phrase “ātmānam ātmanā” hints at an inner pilgrimage: the self becomes both the agent and the field of transformation, preparing one to face (or rightly refrain from) entanglement in destructive collective karma symbolized by the Kuru–Pāṇḍava end.