Adhyaya 44 — Subahu’s Counsel to the King of Kashi and Alarka’s Renunciation through Yoga
तदस्य दुःखाद्वैराग्यं सम्बोधादवनिपते ।
समुद्भूतं कृतं कार्यं भद्रं तेऽस्तु व्रजाम्यहम् ॥
tad asya duḥkhād vairāgyaṃ saṃbodhād avanipate / samudbhūtaṃ kṛtaṃ kāryaṃ bhadraṃ te ’stu vrajāmy aham
اے بادشاہ! یوں غم اور بیداری سے اس میں بےرغبتی پیدا ہو گئی ہے۔ کام پورا ہوا۔ آپ کے لیے خیر ہو؛ میں روانہ ہوتا ہوں۔
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The end of intervention is autonomy: once insight arises, the helper withdraws. The verse models non-possessive guidance—do what is needed, then let go.
Ethical narrative (nīti/ācāra), not a pañcalakṣaṇa cosmological unit.
Detachment is said to arise from both duḥkha and saṃbodha: pain initiates the break, awakening completes it—suggesting a two-step inner process (shock → insight).