Shloka 62
Adhyāya 199: Karma–Jñāna Causality and the Nirguṇa Brahman
Manu’s Instruction
जो झूठ बोलनेवाला है, उस मनुष्यको न इस लोकमें सुख मिलता है और न परलोकमें ही। वह अपने पूर्वजोंको भी नहीं तार सकता; फिर भविष्यमें होनेवाली संततिका उद्धार तो कर ही कैसे सकता है? ।।
yo mṛṣā-vādī sa manuṣyo na iha loke sukhaṁ labhate na ca paraloke. sa pūrvajān api na tārayituṁ śaknoti; kutaḥ punar bhaviṣyati santatiṁ tārayiṣyati? na yajñādhyayane dānaṁ niyamās tārayanti hi. yathā satyaṁ pare loke tathaiha puruṣarṣabha.
婆罗门宣言：说虚妄者，今世不得安乐，来世亦不得安乐。此人连先祖都不能度脱，又怎能救赎未来的子孙？祭祀、研习吠陀、布施与苦行戒律，若仅凭其本身，并不能如真实那般救度。唯有真实，才是解脱与福祉的决定之力——此世与彼世皆然，哦，人中至胜者。
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Truthfulness (satya) is portrayed as the foremost saving power: lying destroys well-being in both worlds and undermines one’s capacity to benefit ancestors or descendants, while ritual acts and disciplines without truth do not yield the same salvific force.
Within a didactic exchange in Śānti Parva, a Brahmin speaker delivers moral instruction, contrasting the spiritual consequences of falsehood with the superior, liberating efficacy of truth over ritual sacrifice, Vedic study, charity, and observances.