Shloka 31
Adhyaya 29 — Dama and Moksha
स पापं केवलं भुङ्क्ते पुरीषञ्चान्यजन्मनि ।
अतिथिर्यस्य भग्नाशो गृहात् प्रतिनिवर्तते ॥
sa pāpaṃ kevalaṃ bhuṅkte purīṣaṃ cānyajanmani / atithir yasya bhagnāśo gṛhāt pratinivartate
اگر کوئی مہمان امید ٹوٹنے کے ساتھ اس کے گھر سے واپس لوٹ جائے تو وہ صرف گناہ ہی کھاتا ہے—اور دوسرے جنم میں حتیٰ کہ گندگی (فضلہ) بھی۔
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FAQs
Denying hospitality is treated as a grave breach: it inverts nourishment into impurity, emphasizing that social cruelty corrupts even one’s own enjoyment.
Ethical instruction (ācāra/dharma) rather than pancalakṣaṇa narrative-cosmology.
‘Eating excrement’ symbolizes the degradation of consciousness when one refuses compassion; the mind consumes what it morally produces.