Shloka 9
मांसभक्षण-दोषाः तथा अहिंसाया माहात्म्यम् | Faults of Meat-Consumption and the Supremacy of Ahiṃsā
प्रत्याख्याने च दाने च सुखदुःखे प्रियाप्रिये आत्मौपम्येन पुरुष: प्रमाणमधिगच्छति
pratyākhyāne ca dāne ca sukhaduḥkhe priyāpriye ātmaupamyena puruṣaḥ pramāṇam adhigacchati
ユディシュティラは言った。「与えるにせよ拒むにせよ、喜びを与えるにせよ苦しみを与えるにせよ、好ましいことをするにせよ好ましくないことをするにせよ、人は己を尺度として他者を量ることで正しい分量に至る。すなわち、他者もまた自分と同じく歓びと悲しみを味わうと知るのである。」
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Ethical judgment should be guided by ātmaupamya—placing oneself in another’s position. Since others experience pleasure and pain as we do, one should measure actions like giving, refusing, pleasing, or displeasing by that empathetic standard.
In the Anuśāsana Parva’s instruction on dharma, Yudhiṣṭhira articulates a practical criterion for right conduct: when deciding how to treat others—especially in matters of requests, gifts, and interpersonal harm or benefit—one should use self-comparison to discern the proper course.