Shloka 35

Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)

Devanagari script

नाभिरज्यति कसम्िमेंक्षिन्नानर्थे न परिग्रहे । नाभिरज्यति चैतेषु व्यर्थत्वादू रागरोषयो:,मेरी बुद्धि किसी अनर्थमें अथवा भोगोंके संग्रहमें भी आसक्त नहीं होती है। स्त्री आदिके विषयमें जो अनुराग और शत्रु आदिके विषयमें जो क्रोध होता है, वह व्यर्थ होनेके कारण उसकी ओर मेरी बुद्धिकी प्रवृत्ति नहीं होती है

Transliteration

janaka uvāca | nābhirajyati kasmiṁścin nānarthe na parigrahe | nābhirajyati caiteṣu vyarthatvād rāgaroṣayoḥ ||

Translation

میری عقل نہ کسی بے فائدہ و نقصان دہ بات میں لگتی ہے، نہ مال و اسباب کے جمع کرنے میں۔ اور رغبت و غصّہ کو لاحاصل جان کر وہ ان کی طرف بھی مائل نہیں ہوتی۔

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'nābhirajyati', 'definition': 'does not become attached

• is not enamored'}, {'term': 'kasmiṁścit', 'definition': 'in anything whatsoever

• in any matter'}, {'term': 'anarthe', 'definition': 'in what is non-beneficial, purposeless, harmful, or leading to misfortune'}, {'term': 'parigrahe', 'definition': 'acquisition, grasping, hoarding

• possession/accumulation'}, {'term': 'ca', 'definition': 'and

• also'}, {'term': 'eteṣu', 'definition': 'in these (things/impulses)'}, {'term': 'vyarthatvāt', 'definition': 'because of futility/emptiness

• due to being pointless'}, {'term': 'rāga', 'definition': 'attachment, passion, infatuation

• emotional coloring that binds'}, {'term': 'roṣa', 'definition': 'anger, wrath, irritation'}, {'term': 'rāgaroṣayoḥ', 'definition': 'of attachment and anger (dual genitive)'}]

Speaker

जनक उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Janaka

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Janaka teaches vairāgya (non-attachment): the wise do not cling to harmful aims or to accumulation, and they refuse to be driven by rāga (passion) and roṣa (anger), recognizing these emotions as ultimately futile and ethically unproductive.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s discourse on peace and right conduct, King Janaka speaks as a model of inner renunciation while living as a ruler, describing how his intellect remains unentangled from possessions and from the reactive emotions of desire and anger.