Shloka 72
गृहस्थस्य सदाचारः: शौच, तर্পण, वैश्वदेव, अतिथिधर्म, भोजन-विधि, संध्योपासन, ऋतु-धर्मः
अभुक्तवत्सु चैतेषु भुञ्जन् भुङ्क्ते ऽतिदुष्कृतम् मृतश् च नरकं गत्वा श्लेष्मभुग् जायते नरः
abhuktavatsu caiteṣu bhuñjan bhuṅkte 'tiduṣkṛtam mṛtaś ca narakaṃ gatvā śleṣmabhug jāyate naraḥ
Aquele que consome o que pertence aos que ainda não comeram—usurpando o gozo antes dos legítimos—incorre em gravíssimo pecado. Ao morrer vai ao inferno e, ao renascer, nasce como comedor de catarro, em condição repugnante.
Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya in a dharma-and-karmaphala section)
Concept: Appropriating food before those entitled to eat generates severe pāpa that yields naraka and degrading rebirth.
Vedantic Theme: Dharma
Application: Practice restraint and fairness in shared resources—serve dependents/guests first and avoid entitlement.
Vishishtadvaita: Dharma is lived as service within the Lord’s ordered world; violating others’ rightful share disrupts that divinely sustained order.
FAQs
This verse treats premature or selfish consumption as a form of appropriation that violates social dharma, making the act spiritually weighty and karmically punishable.
Parāśara links the unethical act directly to karmaphala: first a post-mortem consequence (going to naraka) and then a correspondingly degraded rebirth that mirrors the moral ugliness of the deed.
Even without naming Vishnu in the verse, the teaching assumes Vishnu’s sovereignty as the ground of dharma: moral order is not arbitrary but upheld within a cosmos governed by the Supreme Reality, where actions inevitably mature into results.