Shloka 62
Adhyāya 199: Karma–Jñāna Causality and the Nirguṇa Brahman
Manu’s Instruction
जो झूठ बोलनेवाला है, उस मनुष्यको न इस लोकमें सुख मिलता है और न परलोकमें ही। वह अपने पूर्वजोंको भी नहीं तार सकता; फिर भविष्यमें होनेवाली संततिका उद्धार तो कर ही कैसे सकता है? ।।
yo mṛṣā-vādī sa manuṣyo na iha loke sukhaṁ labhate na ca paraloke. sa pūrvajān api na tārayituṁ śaknoti; kutaḥ punar bhaviṣyati santatiṁ tārayiṣyati? na yajñādhyayane dānaṁ niyamās tārayanti hi. yathā satyaṁ pare loke tathaiha puruṣarṣabha.
婆羅門は宣言した。虚偽を語る者は、この世にも来世にも安楽を得ない。その者は祖先すら度することができぬ。まして未来に生まれる子孫をどうして救えるだろうか。祭祀、ヴェーダの学習、布施、苦行の戒律も、それ自体では、真実が救うほどには人を救わない。真実のみが、此岸と彼岸における解脱と福祉を決する力として示される。人中の最勝者よ。
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Truthfulness (satya) is portrayed as the foremost saving power: lying destroys well-being in both worlds and undermines one’s capacity to benefit ancestors or descendants, while ritual acts and disciplines without truth do not yield the same salvific force.
Within a didactic exchange in Śānti Parva, a Brahmin speaker delivers moral instruction, contrasting the spiritual consequences of falsehood with the superior, liberating efficacy of truth over ritual sacrifice, Vedic study, charity, and observances.