Shloka 60
Dietary Rules & Purification — Dietary Rules, Purification (Śauca), and the Duties of the Householder and Forest-Dweller
अननारम्भस्तथाहारो भैक्षान्नं नातिकोपिता आत्मज्ञानावबोधेच्छा तथा चात्मावबोधनम्
ananārambhastathāhāro bhaikṣānnaṃ nātikopitā ātmajñānāvabodhecchā tathā cātmāvabodhanam
មិនចាប់ផ្តើមកិច្ចការថ្មីៗ; ការរស់នៅដោយអាហារសាមញ្ញ គឺអាហារដែលទទួលបានដោយបិណ្ឌបាត; មិនឆាប់ខឹងហួសហេតុ; បំណងចង់ភ្ញាក់ដឹងចំពោះចំណេះដឹងអំពីអាត្មា និងការយល់ដឹងអាត្មា—ទាំងនេះជាលក្ខណៈ/កាតព្វកិច្ចដែលបាននិយាយនៅទីនេះ។
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FAQs
The verse outlines renunciant ethics: minimize worldly projects, accept simple alms-food, restrain anger, and orient life toward Self-knowledge culminating in realization. The ethical center is inner mastery (krodha-nigraha) and non-attachment expressed through a mendicant livelihood.
This passage is primarily Dharma/ācāra instruction rather than sarga/pratisarga. Within Purāṇic classification it aligns most closely with ancillary dharma-upadeśa material, often embedded in vamśānucarita-era narratives but functionally a normative (smṛti-like) teaching section.
‘Alms-food’ symbolizes dependence on Īśvara and society without possessiveness; ‘non-initiation’ symbolizes cessation of karmic expansion; ‘Self-realization’ is the telos that transforms external renunciation into inner liberation.