प्रहृष्टमनसं तत्र विहरन्तं यथामरम् ॥
तं माद्र्य् अनुजगामैका वसनं बिभ्रती शुभम् ॥
समीक्षमाणः स तु तां वयःस्थां तनुवाससम् ॥
तस्य कामः प्रववृधे गहने ऽग्निर् इवोत्थितः ॥
रहस्य् आत्मसमां दृष्ट्वा राजा राजीवलोचनाम् ॥
न शशाक नियन्तुं तं कामं कामबलात्कृतः ॥
तत एनां बलाद् राजा निजग्राह रहोगताम् ॥
वार्यमाणस् तया देव्या विस्फुरन्त्या यथाबलम् ॥
स तु कामपरीतात्मा तं शापं नान्वबुध्यत ॥
माद्रीं मैथुनधर्मेण गच्छमानो बलाद् इव ॥
prahṛṣṭamanasaṃ tatra viharantaṃ yathāmaram ||
taṃ mādry anujagāmaikā vasanaṃ bibhratī śubham ||
samīkṣamāṇaḥ sa tu tāṃ vayaḥsthāṃ tanuvāsasam ||
tasya kāmaḥ pravavṛdhe gahane 'gnir ivotthitaḥ ||
rahasy ātmasamāṃ dṛṣṭvā rājā rājīvalocanām ||
na śaśāka niyantuṃ taṃ kāmaṃ kāmabalātkṛtaḥ ||
tata enāṃ balād rājā nijagrāha rahogatām ||
vāryamāṇas tayā devyā visphurantyā yathābalam ||
sa tu kāmaparītātmā taṃ śāpaṃ nānvabudhyata ||
mādrīṃ maithunadharmeṇa gacchamāno balād iva ||
"Madri alone followed Pandu, who walked there with a joyful heart, like an immortal, wearing a light and beautiful garment. Gazing at her, in the bloom of youth, in her thin garment, the king felt his passion grow, like a fire flaring up in a thicket. Having seen alone the lotus-eyed one, equal to him in spirit, the king, compelled by the force of passion, could not restrain it. Then he seized her by force, having found her alone, held back by that gracious lady who resisted with all her strength; but he, his soul possessed by passion, did not remember that curse, approaching Madri by the law of union, as though by force."
630a340357b9 · प्रकाशित 12 जुल॰ 2026, 4:41:49 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Here passion overpowers Pandu entirely, overcoming both his will and his memory of the fatal curse. The comparison of passion to "a fire flaring up in a thicket" is telling: a small spark of kama, falling on the dry brushwood of impressions, blazes into an unstoppable conflagration. It is also telling that Madri resists "with all her strength", yet he does not heed her: a man darkened by passion is deaf even to the most saving warning. Here is the grave truth of the Bhagavad-gita (3.37): kama, desire, is the all-devouring enemy that darkens the intellect; even the righteous remain subject to it until they are fully purified. It is telling that Pandu "did not remember the curse": passion, at the height of its force, erases even the fear of death from the mind. So the scripture shows that unbridled desire is blind and self-destructive, and gives warning: whoever has not mastered the senses beforehand will be overtaken and destroyed by passion in a moment of weakness.