Shloka 9
Vidyā–Avidyā and the Twenty-Fifth Principle
Sāṃkhya–Yoga Clarification
ततो मानेन सम्पन्नो रक्षन्नात्मपराजयम् । करोति येन भोगी स्यामिति तस्माद् विनश्यति
tato mānena sampanno rakṣann ātma-parājayam | karoti yena bhogī syām iti tasmād vinaśyati ||
फिर जब धन से लोक में मान बढ़ता है, तब वह मान-सम्पन्न पुरुष अपने अपमान से बचने के लिए सदा प्रयत्न करता रहता है। “मैं भोग-सामग्री से सम्पन्न होऊँ”—इसी उद्देश्य से वह सब कर्म करता है; और उसी प्रयत्न में एक दिन नष्ट हो जाता है।
पराशर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Honor can intensify ego and fear of disgrace; when actions are driven by the goal of becoming a pleasure-seeker (bhogī), the person becomes trapped in restless striving that culminates in ruin.
Parāśara is instructing about the psychological chain: social respect (māna) leads to defensive self-protection against insult, then to pleasure-centered ambition, and finally to destruction caused by that very obsession.