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अनुद्वेगकरं वाक्यं सत्यं प्रियहितं च यत्।स्वाध्यायाभ्यसनं चैव वाङ्मयं तप उच्यते।।17.15।।

anudvega-karaṁ vākyaṁ satyaṁ priya-hitaṁ cha yat svādhyāyābhyasanaṁ chaiva vāṅ-mayaṁ tapa uchyate

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 17, Verse 15
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Speech that causes no excitement, is truthful, pleasant, and beneficial; the practice of studying the Vedas is called austerity of speech.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: speech that causes no distress, is truthful, pleasant, and beneficial, and regular recitation, this is said to be the austerity of speech, extending the same threefold framework specifically to how someone speaks, again starting with the clearest, most beneficial quality.

In life: the actual character of your speech, honest, considerate, purposeful versus careless, cutting, or hollow, functions as a genuinely useful, checkable indicator of your current internal state, at least as much as any other measure.

Teaching: use your own recent speech, in conversations, messages, comments, as a direct, checkable indicator of your current internal quality, honest and considerate speech versus careless or unkind speech reveals something real, not incidental.

anudvega-karamnot causing distress
vākyamwords
satyamtruthful
priya- hitambeneficial
chaand
yatwhich
svādhyāya-abhyasanamrecitation of the Vedic scriptures
cha evaas well as
vāṅ-mayamof speech
tapaḥausterity
uchyateare declared as

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
17.15 अनुद्वेगकरम् causing no excitement? वाक्यम् speech? सत्यम् truthful? प्रियहितम् pleasant and beneficial? च and? यत् which? स्वाध्यायाभ्यसनम् the practice of the study of the Vedas? च and? एव also? वाङ्मयम् of speech? तपः austerity? उच्यते is called.Commentary The words of the man who practises the austerity of speech cannot cause pain to others. His words will bring cheer and solace to others. His words prove beneficial to all. The organ of speech causes great distraction of mind. Control of speech is a difficult discipline but you will have to practise it if you want to attain supreme peace. Nothing is impossible for a man who has a firm determination? sincerity of purpose? iron will? patience and perseverance.It is said in Manu Smritiसत्यं ब्रूयात् प्रियं ब्रूयात् न ब्रूयात् सत्यमप्रियम्।प्रियं च नानृतं ब्रूयात् एष धर्मः सनातनः।।One should speak what is true one should speak what is pleasant. One should not speak what is true if it is not pleasant nor what is pleasant if it is false. This is the ancient Dharma.Excitement Pain to living beings.Speech? to be an austerity? must form an invariable combination of all the four attributes mentioned in this verse? viz.? nonexciting or nonpainful? truthful? pleasant and beneficial if it is wanting in one or the other of these attributes? it cannot form the austerity of speech. Speech may be pleasant but it it is lacking in the other three attributes? it will no longer be an austerity of speech.