धर्मं चरत माधर्मम् इति तस्य वचः किल ॥
पक्षिणः शुश्रुवुर् भीष्म सततं धर्मवादिनः ॥
अथास्य भक्ष्यम् आजह्रुः समुद्रजलचारिणः ॥
अण्डजा भीष्म तस्यान्ये धर्मार्थम् इति शुश्रुम ॥
तस्य चैव समभ्याशे निक्षिप्याण्डानि सर्वशः ॥
समुद्राम्भस्य् अमोदन्त चरन्तो भीष्म पक्षिणः ॥
dharmaṃ carata mādharmam iti tasya vacaḥ kila ||
pakṣiṇaḥ śuśruvur bhīṣma satataṃ dharmavādinaḥ ||
athāsya bhakṣyam ājahruḥ samudrajalacāriṇaḥ ||
aṇḍajā bhīṣma tasyānye dharmārtham iti śuśruma ||
tasya caiva samabhyāśe nikṣipyāṇḍāni sarvaśaḥ ||
samudrāmbhasy amodanta caranto bhīṣma pakṣiṇaḥ ||
"'Practice dharma, not adharma' — such, they say, were his words; and the birds listened, O Bhishma, to him who ceaselessly preached dharma. And those living in the sea waters brought him food, birds, other [devotees] of his, for the sake of dharma — so have we heard. And, having laid all their eggs near him, the birds rejoiced, wandering upon the sea water, O Bhishma."
64c23dc4c76b · 发布于 2026年7月16日 15:40:28 UTC
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The birds entrust to the hypocrite their most precious possession — their eggs, their coming offspring — deceived by his pious speech. It is telling how dangerous is trust given on the strength of words alone: the sweetness of a sermon is no guarantee of the preacher's righteousness. The verse teaches vigilance in choosing whom to entrust with what is sacred: beautiful talk of dharma may cloak a predator. Trust should be placed not in eloquence but in deeds; for a wolf in sheep's clothing destroys precisely the trusting. This parable, though placed in the mouth of a slanderer, carries a grain of truth — but that truth, by the blindness of its teller, points the wrong way: it is not Bhishma who is the hypocrite, but the storyteller himself.