Devanagari
हिंसा तदभिमानेन दण्डपारुष्ययोर्यथा ।
वैषम्यमिह भूतानां ममाहमिति पार्थिव ॥ २४ ॥
Verse text
hiṁsā tad-abhimānena
daṇḍa-pāruṣyayor yathā
vaiṣamyam iha bhūtānāṁ
mamāham iti pārthiva
Synonyms
hiṁsā
—
suffering
;
tat
—
of this
;
abhimānena
—
by the false conception
;
daṇḍa
—
pāruṣyayoḥ — when there is punishment and chastisement
;
yathā
—
just as
;
vaiṣamyam
—
misconception
;
iha
—
here (in this body)
;
bhūtānām
—
of the living entities
;
mama
—
aham — mine and I
;
iti
—
thus
;
pārthiva
—
O lord of the earth .
Translation
My dear King, the conditioned soul, being in the bodily conception of life, considers his body to be his self and considers everything in relationship with the body to be his. Because he has this wrong conception of life, he is subjected to dualities like praise and chastisement.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
O King! Ideas of violence arise by identification with the body. When ideas of punishment and threats arise, there is unequal treatment for all beings in this world. One thinks, “These are my enemies. These are my friends. I will kill these enemies and protect these friends.”
Happiness and distress arise by thinking “He criticizes or praises me” because of identification with the body. “He attacks me” arises in the same way when there is beating and threatening (pāruṣyam), such as “I will beat you.” This unevenness (vaiṣamyam) is accomplished for all beings in this world. “These are my enemies. These are my friends. I will kill these enemies and protect these friends.”
Purport
Only when a conditioned soul accepts the body as himself does he feel the effects of chastisement or praise. Then he determines one person to be his enemy and another his friend and wants to chastise the enemy and welcome the friend. This creation of friends and enemies is a result of one’s bodily conception of life.