Shloka 2.108.16
जाबाल्युपदेशः — Jabali’s Pragmatic Counsel to Rama
दानसंवनना ह्येते ग्रन्था मेधाविभिः कृताः।यजस्व देहि दीक्षस्व तपस्तप्यस्व सन्त्यज।।।।
kaḥ kasya puruṣo bandhuḥ kim āpyaṁ kasya kenacit |
yad eko jāyate jantur eka eva vinaśyati ||
Who truly is whose ‘kinsman’? What can anyone really obtain from anyone? For a creature is born alone, and alone indeed it perishes.
It was to induce people to give charity that treatises are composed by intelligent men exhorting, 'perform sacrifices', 'give charity', 'be initiated', 'practise religious austerities', 'renounce', etc.
It teaches vairāgya (detachment): recognizing the ultimate aloneness of birth and death helps one act without possessiveness and with clarity about duty.
Bharata argues philosophically with Rāma, pressing a view that worldly relations are not ultimately binding—part of a broader attempt to persuade Rāma regarding the kingdom.
Dispassion and philosophical austerity—seeing beyond social labels like ‘mine’ and ‘yours’.