Shloka 12
Adhyaya 71 — The King’s Remorse and the Sage’s Counsel on the Necessity of a Wife
राजोवाच भगवन् ! किं करोम्येष विपाको मम कर्मणाम् । नानुकूलानुकूलस्य यस्मात्त्यक्ता ततो मया ॥
rājovāca bhagavan kiṃ karomy eṣa vipāko mama karmaṇām / nānukūlānukūlasya yasmāt tyaktā tato mayā
Nhà vua thưa: “Bạch bậc tôn kính, trẫm phải làm gì? Đây là quả báo của nghiệp trẫm. Vì nàng không thuận ý đối với kẻ cầu điều thuận ý, nên trẫm đã bỏ rơi nàng.”
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FAQs
The king recognizes karmic consequence yet still frames his act as a response to inconvenience; the verse captures the common moral tension between accountability and self-justification.
Ethical narrative (vaṃśānucarita-style character episode) illustrating karma and dharma; not a technical pañcalakṣaṇa segment.
‘Not agreeable’ symbolizes aversion (dveṣa); abandoning duty due to aversion deepens bondage, and the felt ‘vipāka’ is the psyche meeting the moral law it tried to bypass.