Shloka 43
Adhyāya 262: Śabda-brahman, Para-brahman, and the Ethics of Tyāga
Kapila–Syūmaraśmi Saṃvāda
जाजले तीर्थमात्मैव मा सम देशातिथिभर्भव । एतानीदृशकान् धर्मानाचरन्निह जाजले
jājale tīrtham ātmaiva mā sama deśātithibhar bhava | etānīdṛśakān dharmān ācarann iha jājale ||
图拉达罗说：“噢，阇阇利（Jājali），你自身就是你的圣渡处（tīrtha）。莫做那等对宾客冷淡之人，仿佛一切地方与一切人都毫无差别而不必敬重。修行此类本分——敬奉并侍奉宾客——便能在此世此地自得清净，噢，阇阇利。”
तुलाधार उवाच
Educational Q&A
True purification is grounded in one’s own conduct: the ‘tīrtha’ is the disciplined self, and a key expression of dharma is honoring the atithi (guest) rather than neglecting them under a mistaken idea of indifferent ‘sameness’.
In the Tulādhāra–Jājali discourse of Śānti Parva, the householder-sage Tulādhāra instructs the ascetic Jājali, emphasizing practical ethical duties—especially hospitality—as superior to merely external notions of pilgrimage or spiritual attainment.