Shloka 31
मानससृष्टिः, रुद्रोत्पत्तिः, मन्वादिवंशः, प्रलयचतुष्टयम्
दुःखोत्तराः स्मृता ह्य् एते सर्वे चाधर्मलक्षणाः नैषां भार्यास्ति पुत्रो वा ते सर्वे ह्य् ऊर्ध्वरेतसः
duḥkhottarāḥ smṛtā hy ete sarve cādharmalakṣaṇāḥ naiṣāṃ bhāryāsti putro vā te sarve hy ūrdhvaretasaḥ
Все они помнятся как завершающиеся скорбью, ибо отмечены адхармой. У них нет ни жены, ни сына; все они — урдхва-ретасы: их порождающая сила обращена вверх, без мирского потомства.
Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya)
FAQs
It frames adharma as a path whose inevitable “result” is sorrow—highlighting karmic moral causality rather than mere social disapproval.
He characterizes the unrighteous as those whose life-outcomes are pain-filled and whose worldly continuity (wife and offspring) is absent—symbolizing a breakdown of dharmic household order.
Even when Vishnu is not named, the teaching assumes a Vishnu-governed moral cosmos: dharma aligns with the sustaining order of the Supreme, while adharma leads to dissolution and suffering.