Shloka 18
पूर्ण श्रद्धाकें साथ क्रमश: कथा सुनते हुए उसे अन्ततक पूर्णरूपसे श्रवण करना चाहिये। यथाशक्ति श्रवणके लिये उद्यत रहकर मनको प्रसन्न रखे। हृदयमें हर्षसे उललसित हो मनमें संशय या तर्क-वितर्क न करे ।।
pūrṇaśraddhayā saha kramaśaḥ kathāṃ śṛṇvan tām antataḥ pūrṇarūpeṇa śravaṇaṃ kuryāt | yathāśakti śravaṇāya udyataḥ san manaḥ prasannaṃ rakṣet | hṛdaye harṣeṇa ullasitaḥ san manasi saṃśayaṃ vā tarka-vitarkaṃ na kuryāt || satyārjavavrato dāntaḥ śuciḥ śaucasamanvitaḥ | śraddadhāno jitakrodho yathā sidhyati tac chṛṇu ||
ヴァイシャンパーヤナは言った。「この物語は、完全な信をもって段階を追って聴き、終わりに至るまで余すところなく聴聞すべきである。力の及ぶかぎり聴聞に励み、心を朗らかに保て。喜びにより胸を高くし、疑いにも、理屈の争いにも沈むな。真実と率直を誓い、自制し、清浄で潔斎を守り、信を抱き、怒りを制する聴き手—そのような者がいかにして霊的成就を得るか、今わたしが語ろう。聴け。」
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches the discipline of listening to sacred narrative: hear it fully and sequentially with faith, mental clarity, joy, and without skeptical quarrelling; cultivate truthfulness, straightforwardness, self-restraint, purity/cleanliness, faith, and mastery over anger to gain spiritual fruition (siddhi).
Vaiśampāyana pauses the storyline to instruct the audience on the proper inner attitude and ethical qualifications of a hearer, framing the act of listening itself as a dharmic practice that yields ‘siddhi’ when done rightly.