Shloka 9
Vidyā–Avidyā and the Twenty-Fifth Principle
Sāṃkhya–Yoga Clarification
ततो मानेन सम्पन्नो रक्षन्नात्मपराजयम् । करोति येन भोगी स्यामिति तस्माद् विनश्यति
tato mānena sampanno rakṣann ātma-parājayam | karoti yena bhogī syām iti tasmād vinaśyati ||
पुढे धनामुळे लोकांत मान वाढला की तो मानसंपन्न पुरुष अपमान टाळण्यासाठी सतत धडपडत राहतो. “मी भोगसामग्रीने संपन्न व्हावे”—या हेतूनेच तो सर्व कर्म करतो; आणि त्याच धडपडीत एक दिवस नष्ट होतो.
पराशर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Honor can intensify ego and fear of disgrace; when actions are driven by the goal of becoming a pleasure-seeker (bhogī), the person becomes trapped in restless striving that culminates in ruin.
Parāśara is instructing about the psychological chain: social respect (māna) leads to defensive self-protection against insult, then to pleasure-centered ambition, and finally to destruction caused by that very obsession.