न हि योगं प्रपश्यामि येन मुच्येयम् आपदः ॥
पुत्रदारेण वा सार्धं प्राद्रवेयाम् अनामयम् ॥
यतितं वै मया पूर्वं यथा त्वं वेत्थ ब्राह्मणि ॥
यतः क्षेमं ततो गन्तुं त्वया तु मम न श्रुतम् ॥
इह जाता विवृद्धास्मि पिता चेह ममेति च ॥
उक्तवत्य् असि दुर्मेधे याच्यमाना मयासकृत् ॥
na hi yogaṃ prapaśyāmi yena mucyeyam āpadaḥ ||
putradāreṇa vā sārdhaṃ prādraveyām anāmayam ||
yatitaṃ vai mayā pūrvaṃ yathā tvaṃ vettha brāhmaṇi ||
yataḥ kṣemaṃ tato gantuṃ tvayā tu mama na śrutam ||
iha jātā vivṛddhāsmi pitā ceha mameti ca ||
uktavaty asi durmedhe yācyamānā mayāsakṛt ||
"For I see no means by which I might be freed from this calamity, or flee together with my son and wife to a place of safety. I strove before, as you know, O brahmani, to go where it is safe, but you did not heed what I said. 'Here I was born and grew up, and my father is here' — so you said, unwise one, though I entreated you time and again."
72443a9e572d · publicado 12 jul 2026, 17:09:57 UTC
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Here grief turns into a reproach for a caution not heeded before. It is significant that the calamity could have been prevented, but attachment to place held them back: the wife refused to leave her homeland, and the husband's counsel went for nothing. Here it is seen how attachment to what passes away — to one's native corner, to the familiar — brings on disaster: one who clings to a place for sentiment's sake endangers those very loved ones. Significant too is the bitterness of the reproach, in which there is more pain than anger. So scripture shows that unwise attachment to the earthly, resisting good sense, bears bitter fruit; and foresight rejected in its time is mourned afterward.