Shloka 6
Yayāti’s Request for Youth: Sons’ Refusals and Pūru’s Acceptance (ययातेः यौवन-विनिमयः)
यो यजेदपरिश्रान्तो मासि मासि शतं समा: । नक़्ुद्धेयद् यश्न सर्वस्य तयोरक्रोधनोडधिकः,जो मनुष्य सौ वर्षोतक प्रत्येक मासमें बिना किसी थकावटके निरन्तर यज्ञ करता रहता है और दूसरा जो किसीपर भी क्रोध नहीं करता, उन दोनोंमें क्रोध न करनेवाला ही श्रेष्ठ है
yo yajed apariśrānto māsi māsi śataṃ samāḥ | na krudhyed yaś ca sarvasya tayor akrodhano 'dhikaḥ ||
Śukra said: “If one person, without ever growing weary, performs sacrifices month after month for a full hundred years, and another person never becomes angry with anyone at all—between these two, the one free from anger is the greater.”
शुक्र उवाच
Educational Q&A
Freedom from anger (akrodha) is presented as a higher virtue than even a century of continuous sacrificial ritual; inner discipline and harmlessness outweigh external religious acts.
Śukra delivers a moral comparison: he contrasts extraordinary long-term ritual performance with the ethical achievement of never becoming angry, and declares the latter superior.