Shloka 37
यथा<55दित्य: प्रातरुद्यंस्तम: सर्व व्यपोहति । कल्याणमाचरन्नेवं सर्वपापं व्यपोहति,जैसे सूर्य प्रातःकाल उदित होकर सारे अन्धकारको नष्ट कर देता है उसी प्रकार शुभकर्मका आचरण करनेवाला पुरुष अपने सभी पापोंका अन्त कर देता है
śaunaka uvāca | yathādityaḥ prātar udyan tamaḥ sarvaṃ vyapohati | kalyāṇam ācaran evaṃ sarvapāpaṃ vyapohati ||
Śaunaka said: Just as the sun, rising in the morning, drives away all darkness, so too a person who practices auspicious and wholesome conduct dispels all sin.
शौनक उवाच
Educational Q&A
Consistent practice of kalyāṇa—wholesome, dharmic conduct—has a purifying power: it removes pāpa (sin) the way sunlight removes darkness. The emphasis is on active ethical living as the remedy, not mere regret or ritual alone.
In Śānti Parva’s didactic setting, Śaunaka speaks in a teaching mode, using a vivid natural analogy (sunrise dispelling darkness) to underscore a moral principle: virtuous action brings inner clarity and eradicates accumulated wrongdoing.