Shloka 13
अग्निर॒ुवाच अधीयान: पण्डितं मन्यमानो यो विद्यया हन्ति यश: परेषाम् | प्रभ्रश्यतेडसौ चरते न सत्यं लोकास्तस्य हारान्तवन्तो भवन्ति,अग्नि कहते हैं--जो ब्राह्मण अध्ययन करके अपनेको बहुत बड़ा पण्डित मानता और अपनी दिद्वत्तापर गर्व करने लगता है तथा जो अपनी विद्याके बलसे दूसरोंके यशका नाश करता है, वह धर्मसे भ्रष्ट होकर सत्यका पालन नहीं करता; अतः उसे नाशवान् लोकोंकी प्राप्ति होती है
agnir uvāca: adhīyānaḥ paṇḍitaṃ manyamāno yo vidyayā hanti yaśaḥ pareṣām | prabhraśyate ’sau carate na satyaṃ lokās tasya hārāntavanto bhavanti ||
Agni said: “A man who has studied and, thinking himself a great scholar, becomes proud of his learning, and who by the power of that learning destroys the good name of others—he falls away from dharma and does not walk in truth. Therefore, the worlds he attains are perishable and end in loss.”
काश्यप उवाच
Educational Q&A
Learning becomes spiritually harmful when it turns into arrogance and is used to undermine others. Such misuse causes a fall from dharma and satya, leading to inferior, impermanent results.
Agni delivers a moral instruction: he criticizes the conceited scholar who weaponizes knowledge to ruin others’ fame, and he states the karmic consequence—decline from righteousness and attainment of perishable realms.