Shloka 3
Udyoga-parva Adhyāya 64: Arjuna’s Instruction to Sanjaya
Message to the Kuru Assembly
युधिष्ठिरं हि कौन्तेयं परं धर्ममिहास्थितम् । परां गतिमसम्प्रेत्य न त्वं जेतुमिहाहसि
yudhiṣṭhiraṃ hi kaunteyaṃ paraṃ dharmam ihāsthitam | parāṃ gatim asamprāpya na tvaṃ jetum ihārhasi ||
کونتی کے بیٹے یُدھشٹھِر یہاں اعلیٰ ترین دھرم میں ثابت قدم ہیں۔ تم خود آخری منزل—موت—کو پہنچے بغیر انہیں یہاں فتح کر لو گے، یہ کہنا تمہیں زیب نہیں دیتا؛ ایسی فتح ممکن نہیں۔
विदुर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Moral authority grounded in dharma cannot be overcome by ordinary power-politics; one who is firmly established in righteousness is not truly ‘conquered’ by external force. Vidura implies that attempting to defeat such a person is ethically and practically futile.
In the Udyoga Parva’s pre-war counsel, Vidura admonishes the Kaurava side (addressed as ‘son of Kuntī’ in the verse’s vocative style) that Yudhiṣṭhira is steadfast in the highest dharma, and that boasting of defeating him is misguided—only with one’s own end (death) could such a claim be imagined.