Shloka 6
Adhyaya 34 — Madālāsā’s Instruction on Sadācāra (Householder Conduct, Purity, and Daily Rites)
मदालसोवाच गृहस्थेन सदा कार्यमाचारपरिपालनम् । न ह्याचारविहीनस्य सुखमत्र परत्र वा ॥
madālasovāca gṛhasthena sadā kāryam ācāraparipālanam | na hy ācāravihīnasya sukham atra paratra vā ||
マダーラサは言った。「家住者は常に正しい行いを保たねばならぬ。行いを欠く者は、この世にも来世にも幸福を見いださない。」
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FAQs
Conduct (ācāra) is treated as the foundation of all other virtues and rites; without it, neither worldly stability nor spiritual merit matures.
Normative dharma passage; not pancalakṣaṇa.
Ācāra is ‘the path made visible’: inner values must crystallize into repeatable patterns; otherwise, both social harmony and inner purification remain unstable.