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“Destroy the family, and the moral order inside it collapses.”
कुल का क्षय होने पर सदा से चलते आये कुलधर्म नष्ट हो जाते हैं और धर्म का नाश होनेपर बचे हुए सम्पूर्ण कुल को अधर्म दबा लेता है ॥
श्लोक क्रम में — हर संस्कृत शब्द और नीचे उसका अर्थ। किसी शब्द पर जाकर उसे देखें।
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When a family is broken, its long-standing duties disappear. Once duty is gone, wrongdoing spreads through the whole family.
यह श्लोक Arjuna द्वारा कहा गया है, कुरुक्षेत्र की भूमि पर, अध्याय "अर्जुन विषाद योग" में।
श्लोक 40 भगवद् गीता के 1वें अध्याय में है — अर्जुन विषाद योग। इस अध्याय में कुल 47 श्लोक हैं।
A household where promises keep getting broken does not stay stable for long. Soon the children learn the chaos as normal, and everyone starts living by damage control instead of responsibility.
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It shifts attention from immediate victory to the long-term moral cost of breaking inherited obligations.
इस श्लोक का अर्थ
When a family is broken, its long-standing duties disappear. Once duty is gone, wrongdoing spreads through the whole family.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
On the Kurukshetra battlefield, Arjuna looks beyond the fight and sees a larger collapse. If the Kuru family is destroyed, its old duties will vanish, and the disorder of war will spread through everything that remains.
आज के जीवन में महत्व
A household where promises keep getting broken does not stay stable for long. Soon the children learn the chaos as normal, and everyone starts living by damage control instead of responsibility.
“A broken structure does not stay neutral for long; it quickly trains people toward harm.”
संबंधित विषय: adharma (12 श्लोक)