Shloka 29
Adhyaya 62 — The Fire-God Enters the Brahmin Youth; Varuthini’s Love-Sickness and Kali’s Disguise
वरूथिनी उवाच प्रसीद यद्ब्रवीṣi त्वं तत्करोमि न ते मृṣā ।
ब्रवीम्येतदनाशङ्कं यत्ते कार्यं मयाधुना ॥
varūthinī uvāca prasīda yad bravīṣi tvaṃ tat karomi na te mṛṣā | bravīmy etad anāśaṅkaṃ yat te kāryaṃ mayādhunā ||
วรูถินีกล่าวว่า: จงพอใจเถิด; สิ่งที่เจ้ากล่าว เราก็ทำตาม—มิใช่คำเท็จ. เรากล่าวโดยไม่ลังเล: บัดนี้เราควรทำสิ่งใดเพื่อเจ้า?
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FAQs
Compliance language (‘whatever you say, I do’) highlights vulnerability and the outcome of sustained pressure. The episode can be read as a caution about how coercion engineers consent-like speech.
Ākhyāna; it advances the plot that exemplifies Kali’s influence and the erosion of proper discernment.
Varūthinī’s surrender represents the psyche yielding agency to a dominating impulse. ‘What should I do now?’ is the moment the will hands over authorship of action to desire.