Shloka 15

Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Inquiry and Sañjaya’s Etymologies of Kṛṣṇa’s Names

Puruṣottama-nāma-nirvacana

Devanagari script

एष एकायन: पन्था येन यान्ति मनीषिण: । त॑ं दृष्टवा मृत्युमत्येति महांस्तत्र न सज्जति,यह ज्ञानमार्ग एकमात्र परमात्माकी प्राप्ति करानेवाला है। जिसपर मनीषी (ज्ञानी) पुरुष चलते हैं, उस मार्गको देख या जान लेनेपर मनुष्य जन्म-मृत्युरूप संसारको लाँघ जाता है और वह महात्मा पुरुष कभी इस संसारमें आसक्त नहीं होता है

Transliteration

eṣa ekāyanaḥ panthā yena yānti manīṣiṇaḥ | taṃ dṛṣṭvā mṛtyum atyeti mahāṃs tatra na sajjati ||

Translation

Vyāsa nói: “Đây là con đường duy nhất, thẳng tắp, mà bậc trí giả bước đi. Khi đã thấy—tức là thực sự biết—con đường ấy, con người vượt qua cả tử vong; và bậc đại hồn không còn bám víu vào cõi đời hữu tử này.”

Word by Word

• {'eṣaḥ': 'this', 'ekāyanaḥ': 'having one goal

• the one direct course leading to the Supreme', 'panthāḥ': 'path, way', 'yena': 'by which', 'yānti': 'go, proceed', 'manīṣiṇaḥ': 'the discerning, sages, wise persons', 'tam': 'that (path)', 'dṛṣṭvā': 'having seen

• having realized/known', 'mṛtyum': 'death', 'atyeti': 'crosses beyond, overcomes', 'mahān': 'great (in spirit)

• great-souled', 'tatra': 'there

• in that (mortal sphere/condition)', 'na': 'not', 'sajjati': 'clings, becomes attached'}

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vyasa

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

There is a single, direct spiritual way (ekāyana-pantha) recognized by the wise; when it is truly realized, one transcends mortality and no longer clings to saṃsāra (the cycle of birth and death).

What is happening in the narrative?

In Vyasa’s instruction within Udyoga Parva, he emphasizes a liberating path of insight/realization: knowing that path enables one to overcome death and remain unattached to worldly existence, framing ethical steadiness amid the approaching conflict.