Shloka 17
शकुनि (हिरण्मय-पक्षी) उपदेशः — Vighasāśin and the Difficulty of Gārhasthya
देववंशान् पितृवंशान् ब्रह्मवंशांश्व शाश्वतान् | संत्यज्य मूढा वर्तन्ते ततो यान्त्यश्रुतीपथम्
devavaṁśān pitṛvaṁśān brahmavaṁśāṁś ca śāśvatān | saṁtyajya mūḍhā vartante tato yānty aśrutīpatham ||
দেৱবংশৰ আৰাধনা, পিতৃবংশৰ তৰ্পণ, আৰু বেদস্বাধ্যায়ে ঋষি-ব্ৰহ্মবংশৰ পোষণ—এই তিনিটাই সনাতন পথ। যিসকলে মোহত এইবোৰ ত্যাগ কৰি অন্য পথে চলে, সিহঁতে শ্রুতি(বেদ)বিৰোধী পথত পতিত হয়।
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Dharma is upheld by sustaining three perennial obligations: reverence to the gods (deva-yajña), reverence to the ancestors (pitṛ-yajña), and preservation of the Vedic-ṛṣi tradition through study and transmission (brahma-yajña). Abandoning these leads to conduct that is outside Śruti, i.e., lacking Vedic sanction.
Arjuna articulates a normative standard of right conduct: he identifies the traditional triad of duties that maintain cosmic, familial, and intellectual-spiritual continuity, and warns that rejecting them results in a non-Śruti (non-Vedic) path.