Shloka 22
अहिंसयित्वा ब्रह्महत्याविधानम् / Brahmahatyā incurred without physical violence
मेदानां पुल्कसानां च तथैवान्तेवसायिनाम् । कृतं कर्माकृतं वापि रागमोहेन जल्पताम्
medānāṁ pulkasānāṁ ca tathaivāntevāsayinām | kṛtaṁ karmākṛtaṁ vāpi rāgamohena jalpatām ||
ビーシュマは言った。「欲と迷いに支配され、衆人の前で功徳の行いを誇る者——それが実際に行われたものであれ、行われぬものであれ——は、メーダ、プーリンダ/プルカサ、アンティヤジャ（賤民・被差別の群）に劣らぬ者として見なされる。教えの要は、徳を売り物にし虚偽の善を唱えることは、出自や身分にかかわらず人の品位を貶める、ということだ。」
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Merit is diminished by vanity: proclaiming one’s good deeds (or falsely claiming them) out of attachment and delusion is ethically degrading. True dharma values sincerity, restraint in speech, and inner integrity over public self-advertisement.
In Anushasana Parva, Bhishma continues instructing Yudhishthira on dharma and proper conduct. Here he censures those who, despite belonging to higher social ranks, become driven by rāga and moha and boast before people about virtuous acts done or not done, equating such conduct with socially condemned statuses to stress moral, not merely birth-based, evaluation.