Shloka 43
Vānaprastha-dharma and Tapas: Śiva–Umā Saṃvāda
Forest-Stage Discipline and Austerity
ये मया कथिता दोषास्ते तथा स्युर्न चान्यथा । तस्मात् स्नात:ः शुचि: क्षान्तः श्राद्ध भुञज्जीत वै द्विज:
ye mayā kathitā doṣās te tathā syur na cānyathā | tasmāt snātaḥ śuciḥ kṣāntaḥ śrāddha-bhuñjīta vai dvijaḥ ||
جو عیوب میں نے بیان کیے ہیں وہ اسی طرح واقع ہوتے ہیں، اس کے سوا نہیں۔ لہٰذا غسل کر کے، پاکیزہ اور بردبار ہو کر دِوِج (برہمن) کو شِرادھ کا بھوجن کرنا چاہیے۔
देवदूत उवाच
Educational Q&A
Ritual acts like śrāddha must be approached with disciplined purity: after bathing, maintaining cleanliness and patience/self-control, the brahmin should partake of the śrāddha meal, since the previously stated ritual faults have definite consequences.
A divine messenger concludes an instruction by affirming the certainty of the defects (doṣas) earlier explained and then gives a practical directive: the proper state and conduct required for a dvija when eating in the context of a śrāddha.