Shloka 12
कामबन्धन-निवृत्ति तथा शान्तिलक्षण-उपदेशः | Release from Desire-Bondage and the Marks of Peace
जो धार्मिकताका ढोंग दिखानेके लिये अपने नख और बाल बढ़ाकर आया हो
vighaśāśī bhavennityaṃ nityaṃ cāmṛtabhojanaḥ | amṛtaṃ yajñaśeṣaṃ syād bhojanaṃ haviṣā samam ||
गृहस्थ को सदा विघसाशी होना चाहिए और नित्य ‘अमृत’ का भोजन करना चाहिए। यज्ञ से शेष बचा अन्न ‘अमृत’ कहा गया है; और उसका भोजन हविष् के समान माना गया है।
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
The householder’s meal should be ethically grounded in prior giving: first feed others and treat one’s own food as the sanctified remainder (vighasa/yajñaśeṣa), regarded as amṛta and comparable to sacrificial havis.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma, Vyāsa teaches norms of household life, linking daily eating to sacrificial ethics: the gṛhastha sustains society through hospitality and then partakes of the remainder as a consecrated act.