Shloka 37
Āloka-dāna (Dīpa-dāna), Sumanas–Dhūpa–Dīpa Phala: Manu–Suvarṇa and Śukra–Bali Exempla
प्रीता: प्रीणन्ति सततं मानिता मानयन्ति च । अवज्ञातावधूताश्न निर्दहन्त्यधमान् नरान्
prītāḥ prīṇanti satataṃ mānitā mānayanti ca | avajñātā avadhūtāś ca nirdahanty adhamān narān ||
Dijo Śukra: «Cuando las deidades están complacidas, otorgan satisfacción sin cesar; cuando son honradas, confieren honor a su vez. Pero cuando se las desdeña y se las trata con desprecio, consumen a los hombres viles que obran con irreverencia, abrasándolos con el fuego de su ira».
शुक्र उवाच
Educational Q&A
Honor and reverence toward the divine (and by extension toward worthy beings) bring protection and well-being, while contempt and neglect invite destructive consequences; the verse frames this as a moral law of reciprocity.
Śukra is instructing about proper conduct: he contrasts the benefits that arise when deities are pleased and respected with the ruin that follows when they are insulted or scorned.