Shloka 31
Adhyaya 29 — Alarka’s Inquiry and Madalasa’s Teaching on Householder Dharma (Gārhasthya), Vaiśvadeva, and Atithi Hospitality
स पापं केवलं भुङ्क्ते पुरीषञ्चान्यजन्मनि ।
अतिथिर्यस्य भग्नाशो गृहात् प्रतिनिवर्तते ॥
sa pāpaṃ kevalaṃ bhuṅkte purīṣaṃ cānyajanmani / atithir yasya bhagnāśo gṛhāt pratinivartate
ഒരു അതിഥി പ്രതീക്ഷ ഭംഗപ്പെട്ട് അവന്റെ വീട്ടിൽ നിന്ന് മടങ്ങിപ്പോയാൽ, അവൻ പാപം മാത്രമേ ഭക്ഷിക്കൂ—മറ്റൊരു ജന്മത്തിൽ മലവും വരെ ഭക്ഷിക്കേണ്ടിവരും.
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FAQs
Denying hospitality is treated as a grave breach: it inverts nourishment into impurity, emphasizing that social cruelty corrupts even one’s own enjoyment.
Ethical instruction (ācāra/dharma) rather than pancalakṣaṇa narrative-cosmology.
‘Eating excrement’ symbolizes the degradation of consciousness when one refuses compassion; the mind consumes what it morally produces.