Shloka 5
मांसभक्षण-दोषाः तथा अहिंसाया माहात्म्यम् | Faults of Meat-Consumption and the Supremacy of Ahiṃsā
अहिंसकानि भूतानि दण्डेन विनिहन्ति यः । आत्मन: सुखमन्विच्छन् स प्रेत्य न सुखी भवेत्,जो मनुष्य अपने सुखकी इच्छा रखकर अहिंसक प्राणियोंको डंडेसे मारता है, वह परलोकमें सुखी नहीं होता है
ahiṃsakāni bhūtāni daṇḍena vinihanti yaḥ | ātmanaḥ sukham anvicchan sa pretya na sukhī bhavet ||
Wika ni Yudhiṣṭhira: “Sinumang, sa paghahangad ng sariling aliw, ay humahampas at pumapatay ng mga nilalang na walang pananakit gamit ang pamalo, ay hindi makatatagpo ng ligaya pagkalipas ng kamatayan. Ang marahas na gawaing makasarili laban sa inosente ay nagbubunga ng pagdurusa sa kabilang daigdig, hindi ng kaginhawahan.”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Personal pleasure cannot justify harming the harmless; violence motivated by self-interest leads to adverse karmic results and unhappiness after death.
In the Anuśāsana Parva’s instruction on dharma, Yudhiṣṭhira articulates an ethical principle: one who kills non-violent creatures with force, merely for one’s own comfort, will not attain happiness in the hereafter.