Shloka 36

Jvarotpatti — The Origin and Distribution of Jvara

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Devanagari script

न हायं कस्यचित्‌ कक्षिन्नास्य कश्नन विद्यते | भवत्येको हायं नित्यं शरीरे सुखदुः:खभाक्‌

Transliteration

na hāyaṁ kasyacit kaścin nāsya kaścan na vidyate | bhavaty eko hy ayaṁ nityaṁ śarīre sukha-duḥkha-bhāk ||

Translation

阿悉多说道：“此我实不属任何人，亦无他人实属此我。就真实而言，它恒常独行。然而寄居于身，并执之为‘我之所有’，便遂与乐与苦同分。”

Word by Word

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• हि: indeed/for
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि

• अयम्: this (person/self)
• अयम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• कस्यचित्: of anyone
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: किम्
• Form: masculine/neuter, genitive, singular

• कश्चित्: someone/anyone
• कश्चित्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: किम्
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• अस्य: of him/of this one
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: masculine/neuter, genitive, singular

• कश्चन: anyone at all
• कश्चन: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: किम्
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• विद्यते: exists/is found
• Type: Verb
• Root: विद् (विद्+य)
• Form: present, third, singular, ātmanepada

• भवति: is/becomes
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: present, third, singular, parasmaipada

• एकः: alone/one
• एकः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एक
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• हि: indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि

• अयम्: this (self)
• अयम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• नित्यम्: always
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नित्य

• शरीरे: in the body
• शरीरे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शरीर
• Form: neuter, locative, singular

• सुखदुःखभाक्: partaker of pleasure and pain
• सुखदुःखभाक्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: भाज् (भाक्) / भज् (भाक्)
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

Speaker

असित उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Asita
• śarīra (body)
• jīva/ātman (implied individual self)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The self is intrinsically solitary and unowned; suffering arises when it identifies with the body and develops possessiveness (‘mine’), thereby becoming an experiencer of pleasure and pain.

What is happening in the narrative?

In a didactic discourse in Śānti Parva, the sage Asita instructs about the nature of the self and the roots of bondage, emphasizing detachment from bodily identification as an ethical-spiritual remedy for grief and suffering.