Shloka 25
Daiva–Puruṣakāra Saṃvāda
Kṛpa’s Counsel on Destiny and Human Effort
सो<यं दुर्योधनेनार्थों लुब्धेनादीर्घदर्शिना
so ’yaṁ duryodhanenārtho lubdhenādīrghadarśinā | vāryamāṇo ’karod vairaṁ pāṇḍavair guṇavattaraiḥ ||
یوں لالچی اور کوتاہ اندیش دُریودھن نے یہی انجام اپنے لیے کھڑا کیا؛ بار بار روکے جانے کے باوجود اُس نے زیادہ صاحبِ فضیلت پانڈوؤں سے دشمنی باندھ لی۔
कृप उवाच
Educational Q&A
Greed and short-sightedness make a person reject good counsel; ignoring restraining advice and choosing hostility against the virtuous leads to self-made calamity.
Kṛpa reflects on the root cause of the catastrophe: Duryodhana, despite being repeatedly dissuaded, deliberately maintained enmity with the Pāṇḍavas, who were superior in virtues—setting the stage for the destructive war and its aftermath.