Shloka 17
काम क्रोध॑ च मृत्युं च पञ्चेन्द्रियजलां नदीम् । नावं धृतिमयीं कृत्वा जन्मदुर्गाणि संतर,काम, क्रोध, मृत्यु और जिसमें पाँच इन्द्रियरूपी जल भरा हुआ है, ऐसी विषयासक्तिरूपी नदीको तुम सात्विकी धृतिरूप नौकाका आश्रय ले पार कर लो और इस प्रकार जन्म-मृत्युरूपी दुर्गण संकटसे पार हो जाओ
vyāsa uvāca | kāmaṁ krodhaṁ ca mṛtyuṁ ca pañcendriyajalāṁ nadīm | nāvaṁ dhṛtimayīṁ kṛtvā janmadurgāṇi santara ||
Wika ni Vyāsa: “Ang pagnanasa, galit, at kamatayan ay bumubuo ng isang ilog na ang tubig ay ang limang pandama. Gawin mong bangka ang katatagan (dhṛti) at tawirin ito, upang malampasan ang mapanganib na mga kuta ng paulit-ulit na kapanganakan.”
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
Sense-driven life is portrayed as a dangerous river fed by the five senses, intensified by desire and anger, and ending in death. The practical remedy is dhṛti—steady moral and spiritual resolve—which functions as the ‘boat’ enabling one to cross beyond the hard-to-pass obstacles of repeated birth.
In the didactic setting of Śānti Parva, Vyāsa delivers an instruction using a vivid metaphor: the listener is urged to treat desire, anger, and mortality as a perilous current and to rely on steadfastness to traverse the existential dangers associated with birth and death.