Shloka 6
कपिल–स्यूमरश्मि संवादः
Kapila and Syūmaraśmi on Renunciation, Householder Support, and Epistemic Authority
अद्रोहेणैव भूतानामल्पद्रोहेण वा पुनः । या वृत्ति: स परो धर्मस्तेन जीवामि जाजले
adroheṇaiva bhūtānām alpadroheṇa vā punaḥ | yā vṛttiḥ sa paro dharmas tena jīvāmi jājale ||
トゥラーダーラは言った。「生きとし生けるものをまったく害さずに成り立つ生業—それが叶わぬなら、せめて害を最小限にして暮らしを立てる生業—それこそが最高のダルマである。おおジャージャリよ、私はそのような生業によって命を支えている。」
तुलाधार उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse defines the highest dharma as choosing a livelihood that avoids harming living beings; if complete non-harm is impossible, one should reduce harm to the minimum. Ethical living is measured not only by intention but by the concrete impact of one’s means of subsistence.
In the Tulādhāra–Jājali discourse of the Śānti Parva, the householder Tulādhāra instructs the ascetic Jājali. Here he states his guiding principle: he sustains himself through a way of life grounded in non-injury (or the least injury possible), presenting practical ethics as superior dharma.