Shloka 18
ब्रह्मघोष-प्रवर्तनम्, अनध्याय-नियमः, वायु-मार्ग-वर्णनम्
Restoring Vedic Recitation, the Anadhyaya Rule, and the Taxonomy of Winds
ये त्वन्यथैव पश्यन्ति न सम्यक् तेषु दर्शनम् ते व्यक्त निरयं घोरं प्रविशन्ति पुन: पुन:
ye tv anyathaiva paśyanti na samyak teṣu darśanam | te vyakta-nirayaṃ ghoraṃ praviśanti punaḥ punaḥ ||
Mas aqueles que persistem em ver as coisas de outro modo—cuja visão dessas verdades não está corretamente alinhada—entram repetidas vezes num inferno terrível e manifesto. O verso adverte que a compreensão distorcida e a deturpação voluntária do dharma e da realidade conduzem a sofrimento recorrente e à queda moral.
याज़्वल्क्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Right understanding (samyak-darśana) is ethically decisive: those who knowingly adopt a distorted view of truth and dharma incur repeated suffering, described here as repeatedly entering a dreadful, manifest hell.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and liberation-oriented wisdom, Yājñavalkya states a warning: people who misperceive the relevant truths and do not see correctly fall again and again into severe states of torment (niraya), emphasizing the karmic cost of wrong view.