Shloka 50
Udyoga-parva Adhyāya 71 — Kṣatra-dharma Counsel, Public Legitimacy, and Mobilization
नात्मच्छन्देन भूतानां जीवितं मरणं तथा । नाप्यकाले सुखं प्राप्यं दु:खं वापि यदूत्तम
nātmachandena bhūtānāṃ jīvitaṃ maraṇaṃ tathā | nāpyakāle sukhaṃ prāpyaṃ duḥkhaṃ vāpi yadūttama ||
یُدھِشٹھِر نے کہا— جانداروں کی زندگی اور موت اپنی خواہش کے مطابق نہیں ہوتیں؛ اسی طرح فتح و شکست بھی پوری طرح انسان کے اختیار میں نہیں۔ اے یدوؤں کے سردار، نہ کسی کو خوشی بےوقت ملتی ہے نہ غم؛ جب وقت پک جاتا ہے تبھی وہ آ پہنچتا ہے۔
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Human beings cannot command life and death—or even success and failure—purely by personal desire. Happiness and sorrow arise according to kāla (the ripening of time and conditions), encouraging humility, patience, and steadiness in dharma rather than anxiety over outcomes.
In Udyoga Parva, as war approaches and counsel is exchanged, Yudhiṣṭhira addresses Kṛṣṇa (called “Yadūttama”), reflecting on the limits of human control and the inevitability of time-governed results—framing an ethical stance of endurance and right action amid impending conflict.