Shloka 34
Adhyaya 16 — The Son’s Counsel on Renunciation and the Anasuya–Mandavya Episode: The Suspension of Sunrise and the Power of Pativrata
अहोरात्रव्यवस्थाया विना मासर्तुसंक्षयः ।
तत्संक्षयान्न त्वयने ज्ञायेते दक्षिणोत्तरे ॥
ahorātravyavasthāyā vinā māsartusaṃkṣayaḥ |
tatsaṃkṣayānna tvayane jñāyete dakṣiṇottare ||
اگر دن اور رات، مہینوں اور موسموں کی باقاعدہ ترتیب نہ رہے تو وہ بکھر جائے گی؛ اور جب وہ بکھر جائے تو دَکْشِنايَن اور اُتَّرايَن—یہ دونوں بھی معلوم نہیں رہتے۔
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FAQs
Regularity (niyama) is presented as the backbone of both ritual life and cosmic intelligibility: when basic rhythms (day/night) are disrupted, higher-order structures (seasons, ayanas) become unintelligible—an ethical warning against negligence of sustaining practices.
Touches Sarga/Pratisarga indirectly by describing the operational order of creation (kāla-vyavasthā). It also supports Manvantara-style chronology by grounding how larger temporal divisions are recognized.
Day/night can be read as prāṇa’s alternations and awareness cycles; months/seasons as subtler periodicities. Losing the ‘ahorātra’ discipline symbolizes loss of inner rhythm, making higher discernment (ayana—direction of spiritual course) impossible.