Shloka 8

अध्याय ७५ — दैव-पुरुषकार-समन्वयः

Reconciling Contingency and Human Effort

Devanagari script

यदीमे सहसा क्रुद्धे समेयातां शिले इव

Transliteration

yadīme sahasā kruddhe sameyātāṃ śile iva

Translation

若这些人骤然被怒火点燃，像两块巨岩相撞般一齐冲突，那碰撞必将猛烈而毁灭——一场由嗔怒而非达摩所驱使的爆发，结局也将随之倾覆。

Word by Word

• यदि: if
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यदि

• इमे: these two
• इमे: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Dual

• सहसा: suddenly, violently
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सहसा

• क्रुद्धे: angry (two persons)
• क्रुद्धे: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: क्रुद्ध
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Dual

• समेयाताम्: might come together, might meet
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-इ
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), 3rd, Dual, Parasmaipada

• शिले: two rocks
• शिले: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शिला
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Dual

• इव: like, as if
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

Speaker

भीमसेन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīmasena
• rocks (śilā)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Unchecked anger makes people collide destructively, like stones striking each other; ethical action (dharma) requires restraint and deliberation rather than impulsive wrath.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīmasena speaks in a tense pre-war context, imagining (or warning) that if the opposing parties suddenly become enraged and meet head-on, the encounter will be as harsh and damaging as rocks crashing together.