नैतत् समाचरेज्जातु मनसापि ह्यनीश्वर: । विनश्यत्याचरन् मौढ्याद्यथारुद्रोऽब्धिजं विषम् ॥ ३० ॥
naitat samācarej jātu manasāpi hy anīśvaraḥ vinaśyaty ācaran mauḍhyād yathārudro ’bdhi-jaṁ viṣam
- na
- not
- etat
- this
- samācaret
- should perform
- jātu
- ever
- manasā
- with the mind
- api
- even
- hi
- certainly
- anīśvaraḥ
- one who is not a controller
- vinaśyati
- he is destroyed
- ācaran
- acting
- mauḍhyāt
- out of foolishness
- yathā
- as
- arudraḥ
- one who is not Lord Rudra
- abdhijam
- generated from the ocean
- viṣam
- poison
One who is not a great controller should never imitate the behavior of ruling personalities, even mentally. If out of foolishness an ordinary person does imitate such behavior, he will simply destroy himself, just as a person who is not Rudra would destroy himself if he tried to drink an ocean of poison.