Shloka 31
Ahiṃsā as Threefold Restraint (Mind–Speech–Action) and the Ethics of Consumption
युधिषछ्िर उवाच आखायात॑ मे भगवता गर्भ: संजायते यथा । यथा जातस्तु पुरुष: प्रपद्यति तदुच्यताम्,युधिष्ठिरने कहा--भगवन्! गर्भ जिस प्रकार उत्पन्न होता है, वह आपने बताया। अब यह बताइये कि उत्पन्न हुआ पुरुष पुन: किस प्रकार बन्धनमें पड़ता है
Yudhiṣṭhira uvāca: ākhyātaṁ me bhagavatā garbhaḥ saṁjāyate yathā | yathā jātas tu puruṣaḥ prapadyati tad ucyatām ||
ยุธิษฐิระกล่าวว่า “ข้าแต่ภควาน พระองค์ทรงบอกแล้วว่าครรภ์บังเกิดขึ้นอย่างไร บัดนี้ขอทรงตรัสว่า มนุษย์เมื่อเกิดมาแล้ว ย่อมกลับตกสู่พันธนาการได้อย่างไร”
युधिषछ्िर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames a moral-spiritual inquiry: understanding birth is incomplete without understanding how a person becomes bound again—through entanglement in actions, desires, and their consequences. It sets up instruction on the causes of bondage and the path to avoid it.
In Anuśāsana Parva’s didactic dialogue, Yudhiṣṭhira, having heard an explanation of embryonic formation, asks the revered teacher to continue by explaining the next stage: how the born human being becomes ensnared in worldly bondage.