Shloka 24
कपिल–स्यूमरश्मि संवादः
Kapila and Syūmaraśmi on Renunciation, Householder Support, and Epistemic Authority
जैसे यहाँ नदीकी धारामें दैवेच्छासे बहता हुआ काठ अकस्मात् किसी दूसरे काठसे संयुक्त हो जाता है; फिर वहाँ दूसरे-दूसरे काष्ठ
yathā iha nadī-dhārāyāṃ daivecchayā bahatā kāṣṭham akasmāt kasyacid anyena kāṣṭhena saṃyujyate; punaḥ tatra nānā-vidhāni kāṣṭhāni tṛṇāni laghu-kāṣṭhāni śuṣka-gomayāni ca āgatya parasparaṃ saṃyujyante, kintu eṣāṃ sarveṣāṃ saṃyogaḥ akasmika eva, na tu saṃkalpataḥ (evam eva saṃsāre prāṇināṃ paraspara-saṃyoga-viyogau bhavataḥ) || yasmān nodvijate bhūtaṃ jātu kiṃcit kathaṃcana | abhayaṃ sarva-bhūtebhyaḥ sa prāpnoti sadā mune ||
图拉达罗说道：“正如在河流的水势中，一段木头随命运之意漂流，忽然与另一段木头相触；继而在同一处，别的木段、草秆、细枝，乃至干牛粪也漂来并相互黏附——然而这一切聚合都只是偶然，并非出于刻意的安排。同样地，在此世间，众生反复相逢又分离。因此，贤者啊，那位从不以任何方式扰动任何生灵的人，将恒常从一切众生处获得无畏。”
तुलाधार उवाच
Educational Q&A
Associations and separations among beings are largely accidental and governed by forces beyond personal control; therefore one should live so as not to disturb any creature. Such harmlessness (non-agitation of others) yields reciprocal safety—fearlessness from all beings.
Tulādhāra illustrates a moral point with a river-current image: floating debris (logs, straw, small sticks, dried cow-dung) meets and clumps together without intention, then disperses. He applies this to human and creaturely relationships in saṃsāra and concludes with an ethical injunction toward universal non-harming.