Shloka 52
Ahiṃsā as Threefold Restraint (Mind–Speech–Action) and the Ethics of Consumption
कीड़ेकी योनिसे छूटनेपर वह गदहेका जन्म पाता है। पाँच वर्षतक गदहा रहकर पाँच वर्ष सूअर, पाँच वर्ष मुर्गा, पाँच वर्ष सियार और एक वर्ष कुत्ता होता है। उसके बाद वह मनुष्ययोनिमें उत्पन्न होता है ।।
upādhyāyasya yaḥ pāpaṃ śiṣyaḥ kuryād abuddhimān | sa jīva iha saṃsārāṃs trīn āpnoti na saṃśayaḥ ||
Yudhiṣṭhira said: An unintelligent student who commits the sin of offending his teacher surely undergoes three low rebirths in this world—of this there is no doubt. The passage declares that such wrongdoing casts the soul into degrading states of existence (as various animals and other fearful conditions), and only after suffering its consequences does it regain a human birth, thus revealing the grave moral weight of violating the teacher–student bond and the inescapable fruit of action.
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Offending one’s teacher is presented as a grave ethical violation; by karma it leads to degrading consequences across successive births, emphasizing reverence, restraint, and responsibility within the guru–disciple relationship.
Yudhiṣṭhira states a doctrinal warning: a foolish student who wrongs his teacher inevitably undergoes three low states of existence (saṃsāra), illustrating karmic retribution before eventual return to human birth.