Shloka 27
Vyāsa’s Boon-Offer and Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Remorse in the Forest Assembly (आश्रमवासिक पर्व, अध्याय ३६)
नैष मृत्युरनिष्टो नो निःसृतानां गृहात् स्वयम् । जलमग्निस्तथा वायुरथवापि विकर्षणम्
naiṣa mṛtyur aniṣṭo no niḥsṛtānāṃ gṛhāt svayam | jalam agnis tathā vāyur athavāpi vikarṣaṇam ||
Sinabi ni Nārada: “Para sa amin na kusang lumisan sa buhay-sambahayan, ang ganitong kamatayan ay hindi dapat ituring na di-kanais-nais. Dumating man ito sa tubig, sa apoy, sa hangin, o kahit sa pagkaladkad palayo—wala sa mga wakas na ito ang dapat sisihin para sa mga tumalikod na sa daigdig at matatag sa landas na pinili.”
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
For one who has voluntarily renounced household life, the manner of death is not to be feared or judged as inauspicious; ethical emphasis is on inner detachment and steadfastness in the renunciant’s dharma rather than on external circumstances.
Nārada addresses those who have left worldly life, reassuring them that death—whether by natural elements like water, fire, or wind, or even by violent force—should not be considered an ‘undesirable’ end for renunciants, framing their situation within the values of vairāgya (dispassion) and dharma.