Shloka 36
Yoga-kṛtya (योककृत्य) — Vyāsa on Sense-Restraint, Obstacles, and Brahman-Realization
दृश्यन्ते न च दृश्यन्ते वेदा: कलियुगेडखिला: । उत्सीदन्ते सयज्ञाशक्ष॒ केवलाधर्मपीडिता:
dṛśyante na ca dṛśyante vedāḥ kaliyuge ’khilāḥ | utsīdante sa-yajñāś ca kevalādharmapīḍitāḥ ||
毗耶娑说：在迦利纪，吠陀于某些地方尚可见而得以保存，于另一些地方则全然不见。唯因阿达摩之压迫，祭祀与吠陀传统一并衰微，没入幽暗。
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that when adharma becomes dominant, it does not merely corrupt individual conduct; it erodes the social and spiritual institutions that sustain dharma—especially Vedic learning and yajña—so that sacred knowledge becomes unevenly preserved and may disappear from many places.
In Śānti Parva’s discourse on dharma and the ages (yugas), Vyāsa describes the characteristics of Kali Yuga. Here he notes a fragmented survival of the Vedas—present in some regions, absent in others—and explains that the spread of adharma causes sacrificial practice and Vedic transmission to wither.