हिंसा तदभिमानेन दण्डपारुष्ययोर्यथा । वैषम्यमिह भूतानां ममाहमिति पार्थिव ॥ २४ ॥
himsa tad-abhimanena danda-parusyayor yatha vaisamyam iha bhutanam mamaham iti parthiva
- himsa
- suffering
- tat
- of this
- abhimanena
- by the false conception
- danda-parusyayoh
- when there is punishment and chastisement
- yatha
- just as
- vaisamyam
- misconception
- iha
- here (in this body)
- bhutanam
- of the living entities
- mama-aham
- mine and I
- iti
- thus
- parthiva
- O lord of the earth.
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.