Shloka 28
Adhyaya 62 — The Fire-God Enters the Brahmin Youth; Varuthini’s Love-Sickness and Kali’s Disguise
तदहं सङ्कटं प्राप्तो यद्ब्रवीमि करोṣi तत् ।
यदि स्यात् सङ्गमो मेऽद्य भवत्याः सह नान्यथा ॥
tad ahaṃ saṅkaṭaṃ prāpto yad bravīmi karoṣi tat | yadi syāt saṅgamo me 'dya bhavatyāḥ saha nānyathā ||
ดังนี้เราจึงตกอยู่ในความคับขัน; จงทำตามที่เรากล่าว. วันนี้ขอให้มีความร่วมรวมระหว่างเรากับเจ้า—อย่างอื่นไม่ยอมรับ।
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FAQs
The ‘do what I say’ and ‘not otherwise’ reveal domination, not love. Purāṇic stories often display such speech to mark adharma: desire becomes tyranny when it denies the other’s freedom.
Ākhyāna; it is a behavioral portrait of Kali’s mode—force, haste, and absolutism—rather than a cosmological section.
The ultimatum is the mind’s compulsive demand: ‘now, or nothing.’ In sādhana terms, it is rajas-tamas overpowering sattva, collapsing spacious choice into compulsion.