Shloka 126
अदारा-नीति
Crisis Composure) and ‘Jaya’ Śravaṇa (Morale-Instruction
सुखं नैवेह नामुत्र लभन्ते पुरुषाधमा: । बेटा! जो इस प्रकार विनयशून्य एवं अशिक्षित पौत्रसे हर्षको प्राप्त होता है तथा उद्योगरहित
sukhaṃ naiveha nāmutra labhante puruṣādhamāḥ |
Les plus vils des hommes ne trouvent le bonheur ni en ce monde ni dans l’autre. Car celui qui se glorifie de descendants sans éducation ni humilité, oisifs, malappris et sots—qui soit ne font rien, soit, lorsqu’ils agissent, commettent des actes blâmables—engendre une lignée qui devient cause de ruine plutôt que de bien; ainsi ces hommes abjects ne goûtent la joie ni ici-bas ni au-delà.
पुत्र उवाच
Educational Q&A
Happiness depends on dharmic conduct and disciplined effort; those who are base in character—idle, untrained, and inclined to blameworthy actions—gain neither worldly welfare nor posthumous good.
A son speaks a moral judgment about the fate of ‘base men,’ emphasizing that taking satisfaction in uneducated, undisciplined descendants is self-defeating because such heirs do not perform worthy deeds and thus bring no benefit in this world or the next.