Shloka 6
अध्याय २९४ — योगलक्षणम् तथा सांख्यपरिसंख्यानम्
Yoga Definition and Sāṃkhya Enumeration
अपूर्विणा न कर्तव्यं कर्म लोके विगर्लहितम् । कृतपूर्व तु त्यजतो महान् धर्म इति श्रुति:
apūrviṇā na kartavyaṃ karma loke vigarhitam | kṛtapūrvaṃ tu tyajato mahān dharma iti śrutiḥ ||
قال باراشارا: «لا ينبغي للمرء أن يُقدِم لأول مرة على عملٍ يذمّه الناس في الدنيا. أمّا من كان قد فعله من قبل، فإن تركه بعد ذلك تُعلنه السنّة المقدّسة عملاً عظيماً من أعمال الدارما».
पराशर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Do not initiate a socially and morally censured action; and if one has already fallen into such conduct, the truly dharmic response is to abandon it—renunciation of wrongdoing is itself praised as a great virtue.
In the didactic setting of Śānti Parva, Parāśara instructs on practical ethics: he contrasts the blame of beginning a condemned deed with the merit of reform—stopping a previously committed wrong—grounding the point in recognized sacred authority (śruti).