Shloka 45
Udyoga Parva Adhyāya 132 — Vidura’s Counsel on Udyama, Yaśas, and Kṣātra-Dharma
स्वबाहुबलमाश्रित्य यो<भ्युज्जीवति मानव: । स लोके लभते कीर्ति परत्र च शुभां गतिम्
svabāhubalam āśritya yo 'bhyujjīvati mānavaḥ | sa loke labhate kīrtiṃ paratra ca śubhāṃ gatim ||
Ang taong umaasa sa lakas ng sarili niyang bisig at namumuhay na patuloy na nagsisikap umangat, siya ang nagkakamit ng mabuting dangal sa mundong ito at ng mapalad na hantungan sa kabilang-buhay.
पुत्र उवाच
Educational Q&A
Relying on one’s own strength and disciplined effort to live an elevated life leads to honorable reputation in this world and an auspicious destiny after death; the verse links personal valor and self-reliant striving with dharmic reward.
In Udyoga Parva’s counsel-filled context before the great war, the speaker (the son) states a maxim praising self-reliant valor: one who lives by his own strength gains both worldly fame and otherworldly good fortune.