Shloka 34

Devanagari script

सत्यं ध्यानं समाधान चोटद्यं वैराग्यमेव च । अस्तेयं ब्रह्मचर्य च तथा संग्रहमेव च,सुयोग्य याचकके आ जानेपर उसे दान करे (यह छठा त्याग है)। इन सबसे कल्याण होता है। इन त्यागमय गुणोंसे मनुष्य अप्रमादी होता है। उस अप्रमादके भी आठ गुण माने गये हैं--सत्य, ध्यान, अध्यात्मविषयक विचार, समाधान, वैराग्य, चोरी न करना, ब्रह्मचर्य और अपरिग्रह

Transliteration

satyaṁ dhyānaṁ samādhānaṁ śaucādyam vairāgyam eva ca | asteyaṁ brahmacaryaṁ ca tathā saṅgraham eva ca ||

Translation

萨那苏迦多说道：“真实、禅修、内在安定、清净及其相应的修持，并离欲；不偷盗、梵行自制（brahmacarya），以及不聚敛——由这些出离之德而得安乐。修习这些行持，人便不放逸、离于怠忽。”

Word by Word

सत्यम्truth

ध्यानम्meditation

समाधानम्composure; concentration; settling (of mind)

शौचम्purity; cleanliness

दमःself-control

वैराग्यम्dispassion; detachment

एवindeed; just

चand

अस्तेयम्non-stealing

ब्रह्मचर्यम्celibacy; chastity; disciplined conduct

चand

तथाlikewise; also

संग्रहम्accumulation; possession; hoarding (contextually: restraint from it)

एवindeed; just

चand

Speaker

सनत्युजात उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sanatsujāta

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse lists key disciplines—truthfulness, meditation, mental steadiness, purity, dispassion, non-stealing, brahmacarya, and non-hoarding—as renunciant virtues that lead to welfare and protect one from heedlessness (apramāda).

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Udyoga Parva’s Sanatsujāta episode, Sanatsujāta instructs Dhṛtarāṣṭra on spiritual and ethical disciplines, emphasizing virtues that cultivate vigilance and inner mastery amid the looming crisis of war.