Shloka 8
Udyoga-parva Adhyāya 28: Dharmādharmalakṣaṇa in Āpad
Crisis-Discernment of Right and Wrong
सो<यं विधिर्विहिित: कर्मणैव संवर्तते संजय तत्र कर्म | तत्र योडन्यत् कर्मण: साधु मन्ये- न्मोघं तस्यालपितं दुर्बलस्य
so ’yaṃ vidhir vihitaḥ karmaṇaiva saṃvartate saṃjaya tatra karma | tatra yo ’nyat karmaṇaḥ sādhu manyen moghaṃ tasyālapitaṃ durbalasya, saṃjaya ||
Wika ni Vāyu: “Ang tuntuning ito, gaya ng itinakda, ay umuusad lamang na kasama ang gawa (karma), O Sañjaya; doon, ang gawa ay mahalagang bahagi. Sinumang ihiwalay ito sa gawa at mag-akala na ang pagtalikod sa gawa ang higit na mabuting landas—siya’y mahina, at walang saysay ang kanyang pananalita, O Sañjaya.”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
That true spiritual or ethical discipline is not divorced from action: the ordained path functions together with karma (duty/action), and mere advocacy of abandoning action as ‘better’ is criticized as weak and futile.
Vāyudeva addresses Sañjaya in a didactic passage, emphasizing that prescribed order and even higher understanding are meant to be accompanied by action, rejecting a simplistic idealization of inaction/renunciation.