Shloka 14
असंतोषादिदोष-निरूपणम्
On the Faults of Discontent and the Discipline of Detachment
निरामिषा न शोचन्ति शोचसि त्वं किमामिषम् | परित्यज्यामिषं सर्व मृषावादात् प्रमोक्ष्यसे
nirāmiṣā na śocanti śocasi tvaṁ kim āmiṣam | parityajyāmiṣaṁ sarvaṁ mṛṣāvādāt pramokṣyase ||
जिन्होंने भोग-विषयों की आसक्ति छोड़ दी है, वे शोक नहीं करते; फिर तुम भोगों के लिए क्यों शोक करते हो? समस्त आमिष (विषय-लालसा) का परित्याग कर दो—तब तुम मिथ्यावाद के बन्धन से मुक्त हो जाओगे।
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Grief is rooted in attachment to sense-pleasures; by renouncing craving for enjoyments, one becomes steady and is freed from the moral downfall associated with falsehood.
Yudhiṣṭhira addresses another person in a moral-exhortative tone, contrasting the untroubled state of the desireless with the anxiety of one still attached to pleasures, and urges renunciation as a path to liberation from untruth.