Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions
समाविशन्ति नाशाय चोदयन्तीह दारुणम् ।
अधर्मं धर्मरूपेण कामञ्चाकामरूपिणम् ॥
samāviśanti nāśāya codayantīha dāruṇam / adharmaṃ dharma-rūpeṇa kāmaṃ cākāma-rūpiṇam
वे विनाश के लिए प्रवेश करके यहाँ भयानक कर्मों को प्रेरित करती हैं—धर्म के छद्म में अधर्म को, और वैराग्य के छद्म में कामना को।
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The gravest danger is not open wrongdoing but wrongdoing disguised as virtue; the verse urges discernment to detect counterfeit dharma and hidden desire.
Ethical instruction (ācāra) rather than pancalakṣaṇa cosmology/genealogy.
It points to ‘viparyaya’ (inversion of cognition): the mind can relabel impulses as virtue, making self-deception the root of downfall.