Shloka 10
Cāturhotra as Inner Sacrifice (Yoga-Yajña) and Nārāyaṇa Recitation
अभक्ष्यभक्षणं चैव मद्यपानं च हन्ति तम् । सचान्न॑ हन्ति तं चान्नं स हत्वा हन्यते पुन:,वह अभक्ष्य-भक्षण और मद्यपान-जैसे दुर्व्यसनोंको भी अपना लेता है, जो उसके लिये घातक होते हैं। वह भक्षणके द्वारा उस अन्नकी हत्या करता है और उसकी हत्या करके वह स्वयं भी उसके द्वारा मारा जाता है
abhakṣyabhakṣaṇaṃ caiva madyapānaṃ ca hanti tam | sa cānnaṃ hanti taṃ cānnaṃ sa hatvā hanyate punaḥ ||
إن عادة أكل ما لا ينبغي أكله، وشرب المسكرات—تُهلك الإنسان. وإذا تناول الطعام على وجهٍ غير قويم، فكأنما «يقتل» ذلك الطعام نفسه؛ فإذا «قتله» عاد فهلك هو أيضًا—بما ينشأ عن ذلك الفعل من عواقب.
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Indulgence in forbidden food and intoxicants is self-destructive. Wrongful consumption is portrayed as ‘killing’ one’s sustenance, and the doer is then ‘killed’ in return—i.e., harmed by the moral, physical, and karmic consequences of that act.
A Brahmin speaker delivers an ethical warning: when a person adopts corrupt habits like eating prohibited items and drinking liquor, those habits become the cause of his downfall; the verse frames this as a reciprocal destruction between the eater and the food through the chain of consequences.