Shloka 4
Chapter 15: Counsel on Initiative vs. Renunciation in the Rajasuya Project (सभापर्व, अध्याय १५)
विशाला बहुला भूमिर्बहुरत्नसमाचिता | दूरं गत्वा विजानाति श्रेयो वृष्णिकुलोद्वह
viśālā bahulā bhūmir bahuratnasamācitā | dūraṃ gatvā vijānāti śreyo vṛṣṇikulodvaha vṛṣṇikulabhūṣaṇa ||
Sinabi ni Yudhiṣṭhira: “O pinakadakila sa angkan ng Vṛṣṇi, o palamuti ng mga Vṛṣṇi! Malawak at sagana ang daigdig na ito, at hitik sa sari-saring kayamanan. Kapag nakalayo lamang—nakasalamuha ang mga mararangal at nasilayan ang buhay sa labas ng sariling pook—doon tunay na nauunawaan ng tao kung alin ang nagdudulot ng pinakamataas na kabutihan.”
युधिछ्िर उवाच
Educational Q&A
True welfare (śreyaḥ) is not grasped merely by staying within one’s familiar surroundings; by going out into the wider world and associating with the wise, one gains discernment about what is genuinely beneficial and ethically sound.
Yudhiṣṭhira addresses a prominent member of the Vṛṣṇi clan (implicitly Kṛṣṇa) with honorific epithets and reflects that the world is vast and full of varied resources; through travel and contact with good people, one comes to understand the path to one’s highest good.