Adhyaya 25 — Madālāsā’s Return, Royal Succession, and the First Teaching to Vikrānta
दुःखानि दुःखोपगमाय भोगान्सुखाय जानाति विमूढचेताः ।
तान्येव दुःखानि पुनः सुखानि जानात्यविद्वान्सुविमूढयेताः ॥
duḥkhāni duḥkhopagamāya bhogān sukhāya jānāti vimūḍhacetāḥ / tānyeva duḥkhāni punaḥ sukhāni jānāty avidvān suvimūḍhayetāḥ
مغلوب ذہن اُن بھوگوں کو—جو دکھ کے قریب لاتے ہیں—سکھ سمجھ کر اختیار کرتا ہے۔ جاہل، سخت پریشانیِ فہم میں، انہی دکھوں کو پھر سکھ ہی مان لیتا ہے۔
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Sense-pleasures are misread as happiness though they generate suffering and dependence; discernment (viveka) is needed to avoid repeated self-deception.
A moral-psychological teaching within an upākhyāna; not a genealogical or cosmological pancalakṣaṇa component.
It indicates the cyclic reinforcement of saṃskāras: craving interprets pain as pleasure, sustaining saṃsāra through misperception.