Shloka 37
Ahiṃsā as Threefold Restraint (Mind–Speech–Action) and the Ethics of Consumption
इहलोके च स प्राणी जन्मप्रभृति पार्थिव । सुकृतं कर्म वै भुद्धक्ते धर्मस्य फलमाश्रित:
ihaloke ca sa prāṇī janmaprabhṛti pārthiva | sukṛtaṃ karma vai bhunkte dharmasya phalam āśritaḥ ||
ഹേ പാർത്ഥിവാ! ഈ ലോകത്തിൽ ജീവി ജന്മം മുതൽ തന്നെ സുകൃതകർമ്മഫലം അനുഭവിക്കുന്നു; ധർമ്മഫലത്തെ ആശ്രയിച്ച് അതനുസരിച്ചുള്ള സുഖം ഭുജിക്കുന്നു.
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Meritorious action (sukṛta-karma) yields tangible results, and these are experienced by living beings in this very life; the 'fruit' is grounded in dharma, emphasizing ethical causality rather than mere ritual or theory.
Yudhiṣṭhira addresses a kingly interlocutor and articulates a principle of dharma: from birth onward, beings partake of the consequences of their good deeds, framing dharma as a practical source of lived outcomes.