Shloka 63
Dama-pradhāna-dharma (Self-restraint as the Root of Dharma) — Śānti-parva 154
प्रज्ञाविज्ञानयुक्तेन बुद्धिसंज्ञाप्रदायिना । वचन श्राविता नून॑ मानुषा: संनिवर्तत । शोको द्विगुणतां याति दृष्टवा स्मृत्वा च चेष्टितम्
jambuka uvāca | prajñāvijñānayuktena buddhisaṃjñāpradāyinā | vacanaṃ śrāvitā nūnaṃ mānuṣāḥ saṃnivartata | śoko dviguṇatāṃ yāti dṛṣṭvā smṛtvā ca ceṣṭitam |
ジャムブカは言った。「わたしは慧と証知を具え、また他者に理解を授け得る者である。汝らに分別を目覚めさせる多くの言葉を、まさしく聞かせてきた。今や、人々よ、引き返せ。亡き親族の屍を目にし、さらにその昔の振る舞いを思い起こして失われたものに心を留めれば、悲嘆は二倍となるのだ。」
जम्बुक उवाच
Educational Q&A
Grief intensifies through repeated sensory contact and mental replay: seeing the dead body and remembering the person’s past conduct makes sorrow grow. Therefore one should withdraw from stimuli that inflame lamentation and cultivate discriminative understanding (buddhi/prajñā) to steady the mind.
Jambuka addresses people who are mourning. After giving them instruction intended to awaken discernment, he urges them to return/withdraw, warning that remaining near the corpse and repeatedly recalling the deceased will only double their grief.