Shloka 6
Nakula’s Adaptive Counsel to Kṛṣṇa in the Kuru Assembly (उद्योगपर्व, अध्याय ७८)
सहि धर्म च लोकं च त्यक्त्वा चरति दुर्मति:
sa hi dharmaṃ ca lokaṃ ca tyaktvā carati durmatiḥ
Denn ein solcher Mensch—von verkehrtem Verstand—wirft sowohl das Dharma als auch die Achtung der Welt von sich und handelt dann nach Belieben.
अर्जुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Arjuna asserts that an ill-minded person who abandons dharma also abandons accountability to society (loka). Ethical life requires both inner commitment to righteousness and outward responsibility within the social-moral order; rejecting both results in unchecked, harmful conduct.
In the Udyoga Parva’s pre-war deliberations, Arjuna speaks critically about a person whose judgment has become corrupted. He characterizes such a figure as one who discards righteous duty and social restraint, thereby acting recklessly—an assessment aligned with the escalating moral crisis preceding the Kurukṣetra war.