Shloka 8
Dvaipāyana–Kīṭa Saṃvāda: Karmic Memory, Fear of Death, and Embodied Pleasure
पूर्व तु मनसा त्यक्त्वा तथा वाचाथ कर्मणा । न भक्षयति यो मांसं त्रिविधं स विमुच्यते
pūrvaṁ tu manasā tyaktvā tathā vācātha karmaṇā | na bhakṣayati yo māṁsaṁ trividhaṁ sa vimucyate ||
Bhīṣma disse: “Aquele que primeiro renuncia à violência na mente, depois na fala e então na ação—e, por isso, não come carne—é libertado da mácula da violência tríplice. O ensinamento ressalta que a pureza ética é graduada e só se completa quando intenção, palavras e atos são igualmente contidos de causar dano.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
True non-violence must be practiced on three levels—mind, speech, and action. When a person progressively abandons harm in thought, word, and deed, and refrains from eating meat, they become free from the दोष (taint) associated with these three forms of हिंसा.
In the Anuśāsana Parva’s instruction section, Bhīṣma is teaching principles of dharma. Here he explains an ethical discipline: renouncing violence internally and externally, expressed concretely through abstention from meat, leading to release from the impurity of threefold हिंसा.