Shloka : 152
प्रतिज्ञातं धनं देयं यत्स्यात्तत्कर्मकारिणे ।
न गोप्यमृणशुद्धयादि व्यवहार्यं न दुर्जनै: ॥ 152 ॥
અને પોતાના કામકાજ કરવા તેડ્યા જે મજૂર, તેમને જેટલું ધન અથવા ધાન્ય દીધાનું કહ્યું હોય તે પ્રમાણે જ આપવું; પણ તેમાંથી ઓછું ન આપવું. અને પોતા પાસે કોઈ કરજ માગતો હોય અને તે કરજ દઈ ચૂક્યા હોઈએ તે વાતને છાની ન રાખવી. તથા પોતાનો વંશ તથા કન્યાદાન તેપણ છાનું ન રાખવું. અને દુષ્ટ એવા જે જન તેમની સાથે વ્યવહાર ન કરવો. ॥ 152 ॥
And the labourers who have been hired to work, should be paid in terms of money or grains as promised earlier, but they should not be paid less; and one should not hide the details of payment of one’s debt to a person whom one owes money and one should not hide the details regarding one’s ancestors, 'Kanyadaan' etc.; and one should not deal with the people of evil nature. || 152 ||
Commentary
A 'Karmkaari' means a craftsman who decides the rates per unit of work and works accordingly. Such craftsman should be paid the money or the grains according to whatever has been decided earlier, before assigning the work. But they should not be paid less. Because by giving less, he feels pain and anger and because of his sufferrings, one’s all the belongings get destroyed.
Moreover, a Grihastha devotee of Shri Hari should not hide the details of his debt that he had borrowed from some wealthy person. And he should not hide the details of his ancestors and that of ‘Kanyadaan’. i.e. gifts and token of blessings in terms of money, ornaments, clothes etc. offered to one’s daughter at her marriage. And he should never hide the details of a penance which has been performed, an object which has been bought or sold, progress of virtues. Whereas, a secret sin and a sin which has not been known by other people and therefore has not become a subject of criticism - these two things should be confessed only in front of a God-realized saint.
And a Grihasth should not deal with the miscreants, people who do not follow God, hypocrites, cunning people, short tempered poeple with the superficial intellect but should deal with good persons, only.