Shloka 7
मांसभक्षण-दोषाः तथा अहिंसाया माहात्म्यम् | Faults of Meat-Consumption and the Supremacy of Ahiṃsā
सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्य सर्वभूतानि पश्यत: । देवा5पि मार्गे मुहान्ति अपदस्य पदैषिण:
sarvabhūtātmabhūtasya sarvabhūtāni paśyataḥ | devā api mārge muhyanti apadasya padaiṣiṇaḥ ||
ユディシュティラは言った。「万有の自己となり、すべての生きものを平等の眼で観る智者、その来去の常を超えた者の道筋をたどろうとすると、神々でさえ惑う。彼の真の帰趣は、外の徴によって量り知ることはできない。」
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that the truly liberated knower identifies with the Self of all beings and sees all creatures equally; such a person’s spiritual ‘path’ is trackless and cannot be judged by outward movement or conventional markers—so subtle that even gods cannot fully comprehend it.
Yudhiṣṭhira is describing the nature of a realized sage: one who has transcended ordinary notions of action and progress. In emphasizing that even the devas are bewildered when trying to follow that sage’s course, he highlights the transcendence and inwardness of genuine realization.