Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 75, Shloka 30
अयोध्याकाण्डे पञ्चसप्ततितमः सर्गः
Sarga 75: Bharata and Kausalya—Reproach, Oaths, and Reconciliation
पायसं कृसरं छागं वृथा सोऽश्नातु निर्घृणः।गुरूंश्चाप्यवजानातु यस्याऽर्योऽनुमते गतः।।।।
pāyasaṁ kṛsaraṁ chāgaṁ vṛthā so 'śnātu nirghṛṇaḥ |
gurūṁś cāpy avajānātu yasyāryo 'numate gataḥ ||
May the pitiless man by whose counsel my noble brother was exiled eat milk-rice, rice mixed with sesame, and goat-meat in vain—without sacred purpose—and may he also show contempt for his teachers.
May the one who counselled the exile of my esteemed brother acquire the demerit in the same way as a person, who partakes the sweet milk-rice, sesame-rice and goat's flesh without purpose (without invoking and offering it to the gods) and disrespects the teachers!
FAQs
Dharma includes reverence (for gurus) and sacred intentionality: enjoyment divorced from higher duty, paired with disrespect to teachers, signals moral decline.
Bharata continues to denounce the counselor of exile, invoking social-religious markers of adharma: irreverent consumption and contempt for elders.
Respect for tradition and teachers—Bharata frames guru-disrespect as a serious ethical failure.