Shloka 153

Devanagari script

कालप्राप्तमुपासीत सस्यानामिव कर्षक: । “अतः विवेकी पुरुषको उचित है कि प्राप्त हुए सुखका (त्यागपूर्वक) सेवन करे और स्वतः आये हुए दुःखका भार भी (टैर्यपूर्वक) वहन करे। जैसे किसान बीज बोकर समयके अनुसार प्रारब्धवश जितना अन्न मिलता है, उसे ग्रहण करता है; उसी प्रकार मनुष्य समय- समयपर दैववश प्राप्त हुए सुख तथा दुःखको स्वीकार करें

Transliteration

kālaprāptam upāsīta sasyānām iva karṣakaḥ |

Translation

Sinabi ni Vaiśampāyana: Dapat tanggapin at gamitin ang dumarating sa tamang panahon, gaya ng magsasaka sa kanyang ani. Kung paanong ang magsasaka, matapos maghasik, ay tumatanggap ng butil na nahihinog ayon sa panahon at tadhana, gayon din ang taong may pag-unawa: tikman ang ligayang dumarating (nang walang pagkapit) at tiising may pagtitimpi ang bigat ng dalamhating kusang dumarating—tinatanggap ang dalawa bilang itinakda ng panahon at kapalaran.

Word by Word

kāla-prāptamthat which has come in due time / time-allotted (lot)

upāsītashould accept/attend to

sasyānāmof crops/grains

ivalike/as

karṣakaḥa farmer

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

farmer (karṣaka)

crops/grain (sasya)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

To live with discernment by accepting what time brings: enjoy lawful happiness without clinging and endure uninvited suffering with patience, recognizing both as seasonally allotted—like a farmer who receives only what ripens in due course.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana delivers a didactic maxim using an agrarian simile: as a cultivator depends on season and outcome after sowing, so a person should accept the alternating arrivals of pleasure and pain as governed by time and destiny.