Shloka 56
कालयुक्तधर्मविवेकः
Discerning Dharma in Accord with Time
यस्तु शुक्लाभिजातीय: प्राणिघातविवर्जक: । निक्षिप्तशस्त्रो निर्दण्डो न हिंसति कदाचन
yastu śuklābhijātīyaḥ prāṇighātavivarjakaḥ | nikṣiptaśastro nirdaṇḍo na hiṃsati kadācana ||
Mahādeva sprach: „Doch der Mann von reiner Geburt, der vom Töten lebender Wesen ablässt—der die Waffen niedergelegt und die Strafe aufgegeben hat—übt zu keiner Zeit Gewalt.“ Im ethischen Zusammenhang preist dies das Ideal der ahiṃsā: Wer weder selbst schädigt, noch durch Befehl schädigen lässt, noch das Schädigen billigt, und allen Geschöpfen liebevolles Wohlwollen bewahrt, wird gerühmt, göttlichen Rang zu erlangen und in der Götterwelt die von selbst zufallenden, rechtmäßig erlangten Freuden zu genießen.
श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse upholds ahiṃsā as a supreme ethical discipline: the best person is one who renounces weapons and coercive punishment and never harms living beings. In the broader context, this includes not only refraining from direct killing but also not instigating or approving violence, cultivating universal friendliness and compassion, and thereby attaining exalted spiritual merit.
Śrī Mahēśvara is instructing Devī, contrasting types of conduct and their results. Here he describes the non-violent, self-restrained person—one who has set aside weapons and punitive force—and indicates that such a person is praised and, in the surrounding passage, is said to attain divine/heavenly reward.