Shloka 60
Dietary Rules & Purification — Dietary Rules, Purification (Śauca), and the Duties of the Householder and Forest-Dweller
अननारम्भस्तथाहारो भैक्षान्नं नातिकोपिता आत्मज्ञानावबोधेच्छा तथा चात्मावबोधनम्
ananārambhastathāhāro bhaikṣānnaṃ nātikopitā ātmajñānāvabodhecchā tathā cātmāvabodhanam
عدمُ الشروع في أعمالٍ جديدة؛ والاقتصارُ على القوتِ اليسير، بطعامٍ يُنالُ بالصدقة (البِكشا)؛ وعدمُ الاسترسال في الغضب المفرط؛ والرغبةُ في الاستيقاظ إلى معرفة الذات، ثم تحقّقُ إدراكِ الذات—فهذه هي العلاماتُ والواجباتُ المذكورة هنا.
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FAQs
The verse outlines renunciant ethics: minimize worldly projects, accept simple alms-food, restrain anger, and orient life toward Self-knowledge culminating in realization. The ethical center is inner mastery (krodha-nigraha) and non-attachment expressed through a mendicant livelihood.
This passage is primarily Dharma/ācāra instruction rather than sarga/pratisarga. Within Purāṇic classification it aligns most closely with ancillary dharma-upadeśa material, often embedded in vamśānucarita-era narratives but functionally a normative (smṛti-like) teaching section.
‘Alms-food’ symbolizes dependence on Īśvara and society without possessiveness; ‘non-initiation’ symbolizes cessation of karmic expansion; ‘Self-realization’ is the telos that transforms external renunciation into inner liberation.