Shloka 5
जनक-राज्ञः मौण्ड्य-परिव्रज्या-विवादः
Janaka’s Renunciation Questioned; Discourse on Dāna and Detachment
त॑ ददर्श प्रिया भार्या भैक्ष्यवृत्तिमकिंचनम् । धानामुष्टिमुपासीनं निरीहं गतमत्सरम्
taṁ dadarśa priyā bhāryā bhaikṣya-vṛttim akiñcanam | dhānā-muṣṭim upāsīnaṁ nirīhaṁ gata-matsaram ||
这时，他心爱的妻子看见了他——以乞食为生，一无所有，席地而坐，唯有一把炒熟的谷粒在手；不再躁动奔逐，亦已弃绝嫉妒。此景彰显一种伦理理想：知足与内在净化——出离并非炫示，而是朴素、克制，以及对他人不怀竞争之心的自在。
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents an ethical portrait of inner renunciation: living simply on alms, owning nothing, being free from anxious striving, and abandoning envy. It implies that true restraint is measured by mental purity (nirīhatā, amātsarya) as much as by external poverty.
A wife observes her husband in an austere condition—subsisting on alms, seated with only a handful of parched grain, calm and unresentful. The description frames him as a person who has turned away from competitive worldly life and cultivated equanimity.