Shloka 35
Adhyaya 43 — Portents of Death (Ariṣṭa-lakṣaṇas) and the Yogin’s Response; Alarka Renounces Kingship
येषां विनीतः सततं येऽस्य पूज्यतमा मताः ।
तानेव चावजानाति तानेव च विनिन्दति ॥
yeṣāṃ vinītaḥ satataṃ ye 'sya pūjyatamā matāḥ / tān eva cāvajānāti tān eva ca vinindati
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FAQs
A collapse of reverence (śraddhā) and humility (vinaya) is treated as spiritually dangerous and existentially ominous. The moral lesson: preserve respect for the worthy; contempt for benefactors and teachers accelerates inner ruin.
Ethical instruction (dharma) ancillary to Purāṇic narrative; not one of the five lakṣaṇas.
The ‘turning against the venerable’ symbolizes the ego’s final hardening—severing the channels of grace (guru/elder blessings), leaving the person exposed to karmic fruition at life’s end.