Shloka 8
Adhyaya 24 — Kuvalayashva’s Refusal of Gifts and the Vision of Madalasa’s Maya
मित्राणि तुल्यशिष्टानि तद्वद्देहमनामयम् ।
जनिता ध्रियते वित्तं यौवनं किं नु नास्ति मे ॥
mitrāṇi tulyaśiṣṭāni tadvad deham anāmayam |
janitā dhriyate vittaṃ yauvanaṃ kinnu nāsti me ||
میرے دوست ہم پایہ شائستگی والے ہیں اور بدن بھی تندرست ہے۔ باپ زندہ ہے، مال ہے، جوانی ہے—پھر میرے لیے کس چیز کی کمی ہے؟
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FAQs
The speaker models ‘alpatṛpti’/contentment: when basic supports—health, good company, parental support, and means—are present, craving should not dominate. It discourages habitual dissatisfaction.
Didactic narrative material (ākhyāna) rather than cosmological pañcalakṣaṇa; loosely under vaṃśānucarita-style storytelling used to teach dharma.
The ‘four supports’ (health, noble friends, lineage-support, resources) can be read as inner prerequisites for steadiness of mind; when these are acknowledged, the tongue/mind’s urge to beg or grasp is pacified.