Shloka 52
Ahiṃsā as Threefold Restraint (Mind–Speech–Action) and the Ethics of Consumption
कीड़ेकी योनिसे छूटनेपर वह गदहेका जन्म पाता है। पाँच वर्षतक गदहा रहकर पाँच वर्ष सूअर, पाँच वर्ष मुर्गा, पाँच वर्ष सियार और एक वर्ष कुत्ता होता है। उसके बाद वह मनुष्ययोनिमें उत्पन्न होता है ।।
upādhyāyasya yaḥ pāpaṃ śiṣyaḥ kuryād abuddhimān | sa jīva iha saṃsārāṃs trīn āpnoti na saṃśayaḥ ||
युधिष्ठिर उवाच— उपाध्यायस्य यः पापं शिष्यो कुर्यादबुद्धिमान् । स जीव इह संसारांस्त्रीनाप्नोति न संशयः ॥ तस्य पापकृतो जीवो नानायोनिषु हीयते, पश्चात्कर्मफलक्षीणः पुनर्मानुष्यं प्राप्नोति—गुरुशिष्यसम्बन्धभङ्गस्य महापातकत्वं कर्मणां चावश्यं फलप्रदत्वं दर्शयन्।
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Offending one’s teacher is presented as a grave ethical violation; by karma it leads to degrading consequences across successive births, emphasizing reverence, restraint, and responsibility within the guru–disciple relationship.
Yudhiṣṭhira states a doctrinal warning: a foolish student who wrongs his teacher inevitably undergoes three low states of existence (saṃsāra), illustrating karmic retribution before eventual return to human birth.