Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथास्य जन्मनिधने न भवेतां पुनः पुनः परित्याग करके मनुष्यको यहाँ अक्षय धर्मका आश्रय लेना चाहिए

English

"Yudhishthira said, 'I think, O grandsire, that thou art acquainted with everything, O thou that art conversant with duties. I desire to hear thee discourse to me, O sinless one, of the ordinances about

हिन्दी अर्थ

नतु बुध्यति गन्धर्व प्रकृति: पडचविंशकम्

English

Placing a seat in front, and various jewels, taking the guest-water on his head, he went up to the son of Puru.

हिन्दी अर्थ

येनात्मान॑ मोक्षयेज्जन्ममृत्यो: अपने-आपको जन्म-मृत्युके बन्धनसे छुड़ाया जा सके

English

Taking that seat adorned with many jewels, spread with rich coverings, auspicious on all sides and splendid,

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्माधर्मो पुण्यपापे सत्यासत्ये तथैव च

English

held by the priest and touched with his hand, the king gave it, greatly honoured, to the teacher's son Shuka.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जनकके संवादरूप इस प्राचीन इतिहासका उदाहरण दिया करते हैं पर्यपृच्छत् पञज्चशिखं छिन्नधर्मार्थसंशयम्

English

Seated there, he duly honoured Krishna's son by the scriptures; he first offered water for the feet, then the guest-offering and a cow; and Shuka accepted that worship with mantras, as prescribed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सोथयं प्रपद्यते5ध्वानं चिराय ध्रुवमध्रुव:

English

Accepting that worship from Janaka, the best of the twice-born, permitting the cow and honouring the king,

हिन्दी अर्थ

नैवास्य कश्चिद् भवति नासौ भवति कस्यचित् नायमत्यन्तसंवासो लब्धपूर्वो हि केनचित्

English

the greatly radiant Shuka asked the king, king of kings, of his unfailing welfare and health, and that of his attendants.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कालेन जाता याता हि वायुनेवा भ्रसंचया:

English

Permitted by him, he sat with his followers; the king, of noble nature and birth, stood on the ground with joined palms.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बलिनां दुर्बलानां च हस्वानां महतामपि कथं हि हृष्येज्जातेषु मृतेषु च कथं ज्वरेत्

English

Having asked Vyasa's son of welfare and health, the king asked: "What is the reason for your coming?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदा स केवलीभूत: षड्विंशमनुपश्यति

English

"Bhishma said, 'They that are of bad conduct, of bad acts, of wicked understanding, and excessive rashness, are called evil or wicked men. They, however, that are called good are distinguished by purity of conduct and practices. They are good men who never answer calls of nature on the high roads, in cow- pens, or in fields overgrown with paddy. Having finished the necessary acts one should perform his ablutions in river-water and gratify the deities with oblations of water. This is said to be the duty of all men. Surya should be always worshipped. One should not sleep after sunrise. Morning and evening the prayers (ordained in the scriptures) should be said, sitting with face turned towards the east and towards the west respectively. Washing the five limbs, l one should eat silently with face turned towards the east. One should never disparage the food which one is to eat. One should eat food that is good to the taste. After eating one should wash one's hands and rise. 2 One should never go to sleep at night with wet feet. The celestial Rishi Narada said that these are indications of good conduct. One should every day circumambulate a sacred spot, a bull, a sacred image, a cow-pen, a place where four roads meet, a pious Brahmana, and sacred tree. One should not make distinctions between one's guests and attendants and kinsmen in matters of food. Equality (in this respect) with servants is applauded. Eating (twice a day) in the morning and evening is an ordinance of the gods. It is not laid down that one should eat (once more) at any intermediate period. He who eats according to this rule acquires the merit of a fast. 3 At the hours ordained for Homa one should pour libations on the sacred fire. Without seeking the companionship of other people's wives, the man of wisdom who seeks his own wife in her season acquires the merit of Brahmacharyya. The remnants of a Brahmana's dish are like ambrosia. They are like the lacteal sustenance that is yielded by the mother's breast. People highly prize those remnants. The good, by eating them attain to Brahma. He who pounds turf to clay (for making sacrificial altars), or he who cuts grass (for making sacrificial fuel), or he who uses his nails only (and not weapons of any kind) for eating (sanctified meat), or he who always subsists on the remnants of Brahmana's dishes, or he who acts, induced by desire for reward, has not to live long in the world. 4 One who has abstained from meat (under any vow) should not take meat even if it be sanctified with mantras from the Yajurveda. One should also avoid the flesh about the vertebral

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्य द्वावनुपश्येतां तमेकमिति साधव: जन्ममृत्युभयाद् योगा: सांख्याश्व परमैषिण:

English

column (of any animal) and the flesh of animals not slain in sacrifices, l Whether at one's own place or

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा तन्न तथा चेति तद् भवान् वक्तुमहति

English

"I, by my father's command, have come here to ask you; therefore, best of upholders of dharma, you ought to tell me truly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभिन्न है या नहीं? अत: आप इस बातका स्पष्टरूपसे वर्णन करें पराशरस्य विप्रषेर्वार्षपमण्यस्य धीमत:

English

What is a brahmana to do here, and what is the aim of liberation, and what is its nature? And how is liberation to be achieved, by knowledge or by austerity?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

सनत्कुमारस्य तत: शुक्रस्य च महात्मन:

English

[Janaka said:] "Hear what a brahmana must do here from birth onward. Having had the sacred thread, dear one, he should be devoted to the Veda.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदनन्तरं च रुद्रस्य विश्वरूपस्य धीमत: प्राप्तमेतन्मया कृत्स्नं वेद्यं नित्यं वदन्त्युत

English

With austerity, service to the teacher and celibacy, O lord, he should be free of debt to the gods and ancestors, and without envy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भवान् प्रबर्ह: शास्त्राणां प्रगल्भश्चातिबुद्धिमान्

English

Having studied the Vedas in restraint and given the teacher's fee, the twice-born, receiving permission, should then return home.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथ्यते देवलोके च पितृलोके च ब्राह्मण पतिश्न तपतां शश्वदादित्यस्तव भाषिता

English

Returned, he should live restrained in the householder's life with his wife, without envy, duly keeping the sacred fires.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथैव योगशास्त्रं च याज्ञवल्क्य विशेषत:

English

Having begotten sons and grandsons, he should live in a forest hermitage, worshipping those same fires by the scripture, fond of guests.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्रोतुमिच्छामि तजज्ञानं घृतं मण्डमयं यथा जिज्ञाससे च मां राजंस्तन्निबोध यथाश्रुतम्

English

Knowing dharma, having duly placed the fires in the self in the forest, free of the pairs, with a self free of passion, he should dwell in the hermitage of Brahman."

हिन्दी अर्थ

सांख्ययोगाश्च तत्त्वज्ञा यथाश्रुतिनिदर्शनात् षड्विंशं पञ्चविंशं च चतुर्विशं च पश्यति

English

[Shuka said:] "When knowledge and realisation have arisen, direct and eternal in the heart, what need is there of living in the stages or in the forests?

हिन्दी अर्थ

मत्स्यश्नोदकमन्वेति प्रवर्तेत प्रवर्तनात्

English

This I ask you; you ought to tell it; tell me truly, as the meaning of the Veda is, lord of men."

हिन्दी अर्थ

उनन्‍्मज्जति हि कालस्य समत्वेनाभिसंवृत: तदा स केवलीभूत: षड्विंशमनुपश्यति

English

[Janaka said:] "Without knowledge and realisation there is no attainment of liberation; without connection with a teacher, attainment of knowledge is not remembered.

हिन्दी अर्थ

षड्विंशमनुपश्यन्त: शुचयस्तत्परायणा:

English

The teacher is the boatman, knowledge is called the boat here; having understood and done what was to be done, one who has crossed should leave both.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्धश्नोक्तो यथातत्त्वं मया श्रुतिनिदर्शनात् बोधस्वरूप परमात्माका श्रुतिके अनुसार यथावत्रूपसे निरूपण किया है

English

For the non-destruction of the worlds and of rites, the dharma of the four stages, as told, has been practised by earlier ones.

हिन्दी अर्थ

केवलाकेवलं चाद्यं पञ्चविंशं परं च यत्

English

By this sequence of practice, through deeds in many births, having done good and bad action, what is called liberation is gained here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्धा सदा बुद्धियुक्त मनस्ते अब मैं जाता हूँ)

English

Through the causes that have come about in many wombs of rebirth, the pure self reaches liberation in the first stage.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रदक्षिणं मम कृत्वा महात्मा

English

Having reached it, for one liberated, who has seen the aim and is wise, what purpose could there be in the three stages for one seeking the highest?

हिन्दी अर्थ

सम्यक् क्षेम्यं ये पथं संश्रिता वै मेरे बताये हुए इस सम्यक्-दर्शनका उपदेश दिया था

English

He should always avoid the faults of rajas and tamas, and, standing on the path of sattva, see the self by the self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्तेषामेतद् दर्शन ज्ञानदृष्टम्ू

English

Seeing the self in all beings and all beings in the self, he is not stained, like a water-creature in water.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न श्रद्धिनं जन्ममृत्यू विशेताम्

English

Like a bird rising above its perch, he attains the endlessness of the beyond; leaving the body, freed, free of the pairs, he has gone to peace.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्रद्धा है, उस मनुष्यमें जन्म-मृत्युका प्रवेश नहीं हो सकता सर्व विश्व ब्रह्म चैतत् समस्तम्

English

Here hear the verses sung of old by King Yayati, which are held by twice-born skilled in the treatises of liberation, dear one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दृश्यप्रपंच ब्रह्म ही है

English

The light is in the self, not elsewhere, and delights there itself; that can be seen by oneself with a well-composed mind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वे वर्णा नान्यथा वेदितव्या: योनियोंमें गिरते हैं

English

When one fears nothing from another and none fears him, and he neither desires nor hates, then he attains Brahman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्तस्मै नित्यं मोक्षमाहुनरिन्द्र

English

When he does not harbour evil towards any being in deed, mind or speech, then he attains Brahman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सम्यक् प्रोक्तं स्वस्ति ते त्वस्तु नित्यम् भलीभाँति उपदेश कर दिया है। जाओ, तुम्हारा सदा कल्याण हो

English

Joining the self with austerity, casting off bewildering envy, giving up desire and greed, he then attains Brahman-hood.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रीतिमानभवद् राजा मिथिलाधिपतिस्तदा

English

When in what is heard and seen, and toward all beings, he becomes equal and free of the pairs, then he attains Brahman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मिथिलापति राजा जनक उस समय बहुत प्रसन्न हुए हैवरातिर्नरपतिरासीनस्तत्र मोक्षवित्

English

When he sees praise and blame with equality, gold and iron, pleasure and pain alike,

हिन्दी अर्थ

रत्नाज्जलिमथीैकं च ब्राह्मणेभ्यो ददौ तदा

English

cold and heat, gain and loss, dear and undear, life and death, then he attains Brahman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यतिथधर्ममुपासंश्वाप्पवसन्मिथिलाधिप: धर्माधर्म च राजेन्द्र प्राकृतं परिगर्हयन्

English

As the tortoise, having stretched out its limbs, draws them in again, so a mendicant must restrain his senses by the mind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्यक्ताव्यक्तस्थ कर्मेदमिति नित्यं नराधिप ददात्यव्यक्त इत्येतत् प्रतिगृह्नाति तच्च वै

English

As a house wrapped in darkness is seen by a lamp, so the self can be beheld by the lamp of understanding.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवं मन्यस्व सततमन्यथा मा विचिन्तय

English

I see all this in you, best of the wise; and whatever else is to be known, you know in truth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेन तीर्थानि यज्ञाक्ष सेवितव्या विपश्चिता लभतेव्यक्तिकं स्थान ज्ञात्वा व्यक्त महीयते

English

You are known to me, Brahmarishi, to have reached the end of objects, by your teacher's grace and by your own training.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अहड्कारात् परं चापि स्थानानि समवाप्नुयात्

English

By his grace, great sage, this divine knowledge has arisen in me too; by that you are known to me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जन्ममृत्युविमुक्त च विमुक्तं सदसच्च यत् दिवं समासाद्य पतन्ति भूमौ

English

Your realisation is greater, your goal is greater, your lordship is greater, and you do not understand that.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मुपास्य वै तत्त्वमृषिर्भविष्यसि

English

Through childishness or doubt or fear, those born without release, even when realisation has arisen, do not reach that goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निश्चय ही तत्त्वज्ञानी ऋषि बन जाओगे शोकरहित परब्रह्म परमात्माको प्राप्त हो जाता है

English

By pure resolve, with doubt cut by those like me, loosing the knots of the heart, one reaches that goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अष्टादशाधिकत्रिशततमो ध्याय:

English

You, in whom realisation has arisen, steady in understanding and free of greed, reach the Supreme, Brahmana, by resolve alone.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दीर्घमायुरवाप्याथ कथं मृत्युमतिक्रमेत् मनुष्य किस तरह मृत्युका उल्लंघन कर सकता है?

English

You have no distinction in pleasure and pain, no greed, no eagerness for dance and song, no passion arises in you.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राप्त नहीं होता है?

English

You have no attachment to kin, no fear in fears; I see you, great-souled, with clod, stone and gold alike.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तपसा वाथ बुद्धा वा कर्मणा वा श्रुतेन वा

English

I too see you, and other wise men do, standing on the supreme path, imperishable and free of ill.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मृत्युको लाँध सकता है?” निवृत्तिर्न तयोरस्ति नानिवृत्ति: कथठ्चन

English

The fruit that a brahmana has here, and the aim of liberation, whatever its nature, in that you already stand, Brahmana; what else do you ask?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

कस्मिन् स्थित: क्व भविता कस्मात्किमनुशोचसि

English

in a strange land, one should never cause one's guest to fast. Having obtained alms and other fruits of optional acts, one should offer them to one's seniors. One should offer seats to one's seniors and salute them with respect. By worshipping one's seniors, one obtains long life, fame, and prosperity. One should never behold the Sun at the moment of rising, nor should one turn one's gaze towards a naked woman that is another man's spouse. Congress with one's wife (in her season) is not sinful but it is an act that should always be done in privacy. The heart of all sacred spots and shrines is the Preceptor. The heart of all pure and cleansing things is Fire. All acts done by a good and pious person are good and laudable, including even the touching of the hair of a cow's tail. Every time one meets with another, one should make polite enquiries. The saluting of Brahmanas every morning and evening is ordained. In temples of gods, amid cows, in performing the rites of religion laid down for Brahmanas, in reading the Vedas, and in eating, the right hand should be raised. 2 The worship of Brahmanas, morning and evening, according to due rites, produces great merit. In consequence of such worship the stock-in-trade of the merchant, become abundant and the produce of the agriculturist. Great also becomes the yield of all kinds of corn and the supply of all articles that the senses can enjoy becomes copious. When giving eatables to another (seated at his dish), one should say, 'Is it sufficient?' When presenting drink, one should ask, 'Will it gratify,' and when giving sweetened milk and rice, or sugared gruel of barley, or milk with sesame or pease, one should ask 'Has it fallen?' 3 After shaving, after spitting, after bathing, and after eating, people should worship Brahmanas with reverence, Such worship is sure to bestow longevity on sickly men. One should not pass urine with face turned towards the sun, nor should one see one's own excreta. One should not lie on the same bed with a woman, nor eat with her. In addressing seniors one should never apply the pronoun you to them or take their names. Thouing or the taking of names is not censurable in addressing inferiors or equals in age. 4 The hearts of sinful men betray the sins committed by them. Those sinful men that conceal their conscious sins from good men meet with destruction. Only ignorant fools seek to conceal the sins which they commit consciously. It is true that human beings do not see those sins but the gods see them. A sin concealed by another sin leads to fresh sins. An act of merit, again, if concealed by an act of merit, increases the merit. The acts of a

हिन्दी अर्थ

दर्शनका संकल्प उदित हुआ विदेहानां पुरी सुभ्रूर्जनजाम कमलेक्षणा

English

[Bhishma said:] Having done what was to be done, happy and calm, he went silently northward, toward Mount Shaishira, as a companion of Matarishvan.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्रिविधे मोक्षधर्मेडस्मिन् गताध्वा छिन्नसंशय:

English

At that very time the divine sage Narada came to the Himalaya, frequented by Siddhas and Charanas, to see it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्रिदण्डी साधुओंसे मेरा स्थान विशिष्ट है ज्ञानं लोकोत्तरं यच्च सर्वत्यागश्न कर्मणाम्

English

It was thronged with troops of apsarases, resounding with the noise of song, with groups of kinnaras and with bhringarajas,

हिन्दी अर्थ

तवैतानि समस्तानि नियमश्षेति संशय:

English

with madgu birds, khanjaritas, with colourful jivajivakas, with peacocks of many colours shining with hundreds of cries, with flocks of royal swans and delighted cuckoos,

हिन्दी अर्थ

हुआ? यही मेरे मनमें संदेह है मुक्तोयं स्यान्न वेति स्याद् धर्षितो मत्परिग्रह:

English

where Garuda, king of birds, always goes, where the four guardians of the world and the gods with the troops of sages always come together for the good of the world,

हिन्दी अर्थ

न रक्ष्यते त्वया चेदं न मुक्तस्यास्ति गोपना

English

where Vishnu, the great soul, practised austerity for a son, and where Kumara in boyhood hurled the dwellers of heaven,

हिन्दी अर्थ

आश्रयन्त्या: स्वभावेन मम पूर्वपरिग्रहम् कस्य वा संनिकर्षात् त्वं प्रविष्टा हृदयं मम

English

and, scorning the three worlds, cast his spear to the ground; where Skanda, hurling this speech, said to the world:

हिन्दी अर्थ

आप मेरे हृदयमें घुस आयी हैं?

English

"Is there any other greater than I, whom brahmanas hold dearer, who is a friend of brahmanas, a second hero in the three worlds?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

आगरमांस्त्वनतिक्रम्य दद्याच्चैव यजेत च न करते हुए सब लोगोंको दान और यज्ञ आदि सत्कर्म करते रहना चाहिए

English

virtuous man always follow in the wake of virtue. A man destitute of understanding never thinks of the sins committed by him. Those sins, however, overtake the doer that has fallen away from the scriptures. As Rahu comes to Chandra (at his proper time), those sinful acts come to the foolish man. l The objects that are stored with expectation are scarcely enjoyed. Such storing is never applauded by the wise, for death waits for no one (but snatches his prey whether the latter be ready or unready). The wise have said that the righteousness of all creatures is an attribute of the mind. For this reason, one should, in one's mind, do good to all. 2 One should practise virtue singly. In the practice of virtue one has no need for the help of others. If one obtains only the ordinances of the scriptures, what can an associate do? 3 Righteousness is the origin of mankind. Righteousness is the ambrosia of the gods. After death, men enjoy, through Righteousness, eternal happiness.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

कः प्राप्तो विनयं बुद्धा मोक्षतत्त्वं वदस्व मे

English

Then the blessed Vishnu saw the whole host of gods, with senses and minds bewildered, with the asuras and rakshasas, and thought quickly, "What good work should be done here?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

परं मोक्षस्य यच्चापि तनमे ब्रूहि पितामह जो मोक्षका तत्त्व है, वह मुझे बताइये

English

He could not bear that insult, and looked at the son of Pavaka; smiling, the pure-souled Purushottama then shook the blazing spear with his left hand.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संवादरूप इस प्राचीन इतिहासका उदाहरण दिया करते हैं

English

When the spear was shaken by mighty Vishnu, the whole earth trembled, with its mountains, woods and forests.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मैथिलो जनको नाम धर्मध्वज इति श्रुत: इन्द्रियाणि समाधाय शशास वसुधामिमाम्

English

Even Skanda, though strong, shook it but could not lift it, while the powerful Vishnu guarded the king of the gods from offence.

हिन्दी अर्थ

था। वे इन्द्रियोंको एकाग्र करके इस वसुन्धराका शासन करते थे

English

Having shaken it, the blessed one said to Prahlada: "See the boy's power; no other will do this."

हिन्दी अर्थ

लोकेषु स्पृहयन्त्यन्ये पुरुषा: पुरुषेश्वर समान सज्जन होनेकी इच्छा करते थे

English

Not enduring that speech, resolved to lift it, he seized that spear of his, but could not even shake it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

महीमनुचचारैका सुलभा नाम भिक्षुकी

English

Letting out a great cry, the son of Hiranyakashipu fell senseless and shaken to the ground on the mountain's crest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनुष्ठानद्वारा सिद्धि प्राप्त करके अकेली ही इस पृथ्वीपर विचरण करती थी मुखसे मोक्षतत्त्वकी जानकारीके विषयमें मिथिलापति राजा जनककी प्रशंसा सुनी

English

Where, going to the northern quarter beside the king of mountains, the unassailable bull-bannered lord practised austerity continually, dear one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दर्शने जातसंकल्पा जनकस्य बभूव ह

English

His hermitage, surrounded by blazing fire, named Adityabandhana, is unassailable by the unpractised.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भैक्ष्यचर्यापदेशेन ददर्श मिथिलेश्वरम्

English

Yakshas, rakshasas and danavas cannot go there; ten yojanas wide, it is enveloped in flames of fire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुलभाने भिक्षा लेनेके बहाने मिथिलानरेशका दर्शन किया केयं कस्य कुतो वेति बभूवागतविस्मय:

English

The blessed and mighty Pavaka himself stands there, calming all obstacles for the wise Mahadeva.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूजितां पादशौचेन वरान्नेनाप्यतर्पयत्

English

For a divine thousand years Mahadeva, firm in his vow, stood on one foot, tormenting the gods there.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वभाष्यविदां मध्ये चोदयामास भिक्षुकी मन्त्रियोंसे घिरकर बैठे हुए राजा जनकसे कुछ प्रश्न करनेका विचार किया

English

Taking the eastern quarter of the wise king of mountains, on a secluded mountain slope, Vyasa, Parashara's son of great austerity, taught his pupils the Vedas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सा सम तं चोदयिष्यन्ती योगबन्धैर्बबन्ध ह

English

Sumantu the greatly fortunate, and Vaishampayana, and the greatly wise Jaimini, and the ascetic Paila.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रतिजग्राह भावेन भावमस्या नृपोत्तम मुस्कराकर अपने भावद्वारा उसके भावको ग्रहण कर लिया

English

Surrounded by these pupils sat Vyasa of great austerity; the pure-souled son of the fire-stick saw his father's holy and excellent hermitage, like the sun in the sky.

हिन्दी अर्थ

छत्रादिषु विमुक्तस्य मुक्तायाश्च त्रिदण्डके

English

Then Vyasa saw his son coming, shining like the sun, like a blazing fire surrounded.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मुक्त हुई सुलभाका एक ही शरीरमें रहकर जो संवाद हुआ था, उसे सुनो कस्य च त्वं कुतो वेति पप्रच्छैनां महीपति:

English

Unobstructed by trees and uneven mountains, joined with yoga, the great soul, like an arrow whose string has slipped.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विषयोंकी जानकारीके लिये यथार्थ उत्तर जानना आवश्यक है

English

Approaching, the son of the fire-stick clasped his father's feet, and the great sage met them as was fitting.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स त्वां सम्मन्तुमिच्छामि मानाहा हि मतासि मे यस्य नान्य: प्रवक्तास्ति मोक्ष तमपि मे शूणु

English

Then Shuka, glad in mind, told his father everything in full about his conversation with King Janaka.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वार्षिकां श्वतुरो मासान् पुरा मयि सुखोषित: श्रावितस्त्रिविध॑ं मोक्ष न च राज्याद्धि चालित:

English

Thus Vyasa, mighty, teaching his pupils and his son, the great sage Parashara's son, lived on the Himalaya's back.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हटनेकी आज्ञा नहीं दी है

English

Then once the pupils, accomplished in the study of the Vedas, tranquil and masters of their senses, stood surrounding him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मुक्तरागश्नराम्येक: पदे परमके स्थित: महद् द्वन््प्रमोक्षाय सा सिद्धिरया वयो5तिगा

English

Having attained mastery of the Vedas with their limbs, those very austere pupils then spoke to Vyasa their teacher with joined palms.

हिन्दी अर्थ

साधन है, वही सिद्धि है, जो काल (मृत्यु)-को भी लाँघ जानेवाली है

English

"Joined with great good fortune and grown in fame, we now wish for one favour from the teacher."

हिन्दी अर्थ

इहैव गतमोहेन चरता मुक्तसड्धिना गृहस्थधर्ममें रहते हुए ही बुद्धिकी परम निर्द्धन्द्ता प्राप्त कर ली है

English

Hearing their words, the Brahmarishi said to them: "Let it be told, children, what you need, which is dear to me."

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुभ-अशुभ कर्म ही पुनर्जन्मका उत्पादन करता है

English

Hearing this word of the teacher, those pupils, glad in mind, again with joined palms bowed their heads to the teacher.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राप्पाप्पड्कुरहेतुत्वमबीजत्वान्न जायते ज्ञानं कृतमबीजं मे विषयेषु न जायते

English

They said together, king, these excellent words: "If the teacher is pleased, best of sages, we are blessed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नाभिरज्यति चैतेषु व्यर्थत्वादू रागरोषयो:

English

We all desire the boon granted by the great sage: that no pupil of yours, composed, should come to fame here; be gracious to us.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कारण उसकी ओर मेरी बुद्धिकी प्रवृत्ति नहीं होती है सव्यं वास्यापि यस्तक्षेत् समावेतावुभौ मम

English

We are four pupils, and the teacher's son the fifth; may the Vedas be established here by us. This is the boon we desire."

हिन्दी अर्थ

ही मनुष्य मेरे लिये एक समान हैं

English

Hearing the pupils' words, Vyasa, knower of the truth of the Vedas' meaning, Parashara's wise son, thinking of the other world, the righteous-souled one, spoke to his pupils words of dharma and of the highest good.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्वानोंने मोक्षका उपाय देखा और समझा है

English

"Brahman should always be given to a brahmana who wishes to hear, if one desires a fixed dwelling in the world of Brahma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

साधन है तथा दूसरे सूक्ष्मदर्शी यति लोग कर्मनिष्ठाको ही मुक्तिका उपाय बताते हैं तृतीयेयं समाख्याता निष्ठा तेन महात्मना

English

May you be many, and let this Veda be spread. It must not be given to a bad pupil, to one without vows, or to an unpractised self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

माने दम्भे तथा स्नेहे सदृशास्ते कुटुम्बिभि:

English

All these qualities of a pupil are to be learned in truth; knowledge is never to be given to one whose conduct is untested.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उत्सृजन् परिगृह्नेश्व॒ सोडपि सड्भान्न मुच्यते राजभिभिक्षुकास्तुल्या मुच्यन्ते केन हेतुना

English

As pure gold is tested by heating, cutting and rubbing, so should pupils be examined by family, qualities and the rest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तब केवल वे ही मुक्त होते हैं--ऐसा माननेका क्या कारण है?

English

Your pupils are not to be appointed where there is no appointment in great peril; as the mind, as the vessel, so will the knowledge bear fruit.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मुच्यन्ते सर्वपापेभ्यो देहे परमके स्थिता: लिज्ञन्युत्पथभूतानि न मोक्षायेति मे मति:

English

Let everyone cross hard places, let everyone see good things; let one recite to the four classes, placing the brahmana first.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्मोक्षायेह दुःखस्य लिजमात्र निरर्थकम्

English

For the study of the Veda is this great duty so remembered; the Vedas were created by the Self-born here for the praise of the gods.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किंचन्ये चेतरे चैव जन्तुज्ञनिन मुच्यते प्राप्ति होती है

English

Whoever from bewilderment disparages a brahmana who has crossed the Vedas, from contempt of a brahmana he will doubtless be defeated.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बन्धनायलतनेष्वेषु विद्धयबन्धे पदे स्थितम्

English

One who speaks unrighteously, and one who asks unrighteously: one of the two dies or falls into hatred.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मोक्षाश्मनिशितेनेह च्छिन्नस्त्यागासिना मया अयशथार्थ हि ते वर्ण वक्ष्यामि शूणु तन्मम

English

All this has been told to you about the rule of private study; help your pupils, and keep this in your heart."

हिन्दी अर्थ

नावयोरेकयोगोस्ति मा कृथा वर्णसंकरम् वर्णसंकर नामक दोषका उत्पादन न कीजिये

English

Gandusha, i.e., the act of taking a little water in the right hand, raising it to the lips, and throwing it down, repeating a short formula.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एतत् सर्व प्रतिच्छन्न॑ मयि नाहसि गूहितुम्

English

"We have been told, lord, what is to come and is joined; it has taken root in our minds and we shall do accordingly."

हिन्दी अर्थ

इदं तदिति वाक्यान्ते प्रोच्यते स विनिर्णय: तत्र या नृपते वृत्तिस्तत् प्रयोजनमिष्यते

English

Thus honouring one another, with minds very pleased, those skilled in speech again addressed their teacher.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अविक्षिप्तमना राजजन्नेकाग्र: श्रोतुमहसि

English

"We wish, great sage, to go from the mountain to the earth, to make the Vedas many-fold, if it pleases you, lord."

हिन्दी अर्थ

यासामेव निपातेन कललं नाम जायते जिनके सम्मिश्रणसे ही 'कलल' नामक एक पदार्थ उत्पन्न होता है

English

Hearing the pupils' words, the lord, Parashara's son, then replied with words beneficial and joined with dharma and wealth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कहाँसे आयी हैं?” इन वचनोंद्वारा प्रश्न करनेसे आपका कया प्रयोजन है?

English

"Go to the earth or to the world of the gods if it pleases you; you must be unwearied, for Brahman is full of obstacles."

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृतवान् यो महीपाल: कि तस्मिन् मुक्तलक्षणम् भूपालने यथोचित कार्य किये हैं, उसमें जीवन्मुक्तका क्या लक्षण है?

English

Permitted then by the truthful teacher, they all went, circling Vyasa and saluting him with their heads.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सड़वान् यस्त्रिवर्गुण कि तस्मिन् मुक्तलक्षणम्

English

Descending to earth, they arranged the Chaturhotra, performing sacrifices for brahmanas, kshatriyas and vaishyas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जीवन्मुक्तका क्‍या लक्षण है? सुहृद्धिः संनिवार्यस्तेविरक्तस्येव भेषजम्

English

Constantly honoured by the twice-born, rejoicing, devoted to household life, intent on sacrificing and teaching, prosperous, renowned in the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अयं चापि सुकष्टस्ते द्वितीयो55श्रमसंकर:

English

interpretation. What then is Sankusuka or Sanku cukal The above version is offered tentatively. The commentator imagines that the true sense of the verse is that it declares such men to be unable to attain to Mahadayu which is Brahma and not long life.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सगोत्रमाविशन्त्यास्ते तृतीयों गोत्रसंकर: अगम्या परभार्येति चतुर्थो धर्मसंकर:

English

offering.' I do not see the necessity of discarding the obvious meaning.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अविज्ञानेन वा युक्ता भिथ्याज्ञानेन वा पुन:

English

wound round the thumb, as the Grihyasutras declare.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करने योग्य कार्य कर डालनेको उद्यत हो गयी हैं यदि किंचिच्छुतं ते5स्ति सर्व कृतमनर्थकम्

English

fallen copiously' or words to that effect. Krisara or Kricara is food made of rice and pease, or rice and sesame; probably what is now called Khichree.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गया हो तो आपने अपने ही दोषसे वह सब व्यर्थ कर दिया है

English

avoided, being too direct.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दुष्टाया लक्ष्यते लिड्रं विवृण्वत्याप्रकाशितम् हृदयकी प्रीतिपर आघात करनेवाला है

English

consequences of those deeds visit the doer without fail. This verse, however, seems to say that the recollection of those sins forces itself upon the sinner and makes him miserable in spite of himself.

हिन्दी अर्थ

येयं मत्परिषत् कृत्स्ना जेतुमिच्छसि तामपि

English

Merit or sin, according to him, does not depend on the overt act alone. Both depend on the mind. Hence the injunction against even mentally harming others.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपितु यह जो मेरी सारी सभा बैठी है, इसे भी जीतना चाहती हैं मत्यक्षप्रतिघाताय स्वपक्षोद्भावनाय च

English

if the mind be sinful, no associate can be of any help. The mind alone is the cause of virtue and piety.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भी बारंबार अपनी दृष्टि फेंक रही हैं

English

"Whatever happens in the three worlds stands by your approval; command me, brahmana sage, tell me what I may do for you."

हिन्दी अर्थ

भूय: सृजसि योगांस्त्वं विषामृतमिवैकताम् अलाभ शक्षापि रक्तस्य सो5पि दोषो विषोपम:

English

"Brahmarishi, tell me what I should undertake; my mind, separated here from my pupils, is not much delighted."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत् त्वं सत्रप्रतिच्छन्ना मयि नाहसि गूहितुम् रूपयौवनसौभाग्यं स्त्रीणां बलमनुत्तमम्

English

[Narada said:] "Without recitation, the Vedas are stained; for a brahmana, absence of vows is a stain; Bahlikas are the stain of the earth; curiosity is the stain of women.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रूप, यौवन और सौभाग्य है

English

Study the Vedas, along with your wise son, shaking off with the sound of Brahman the darkness made by fear."

हिन्दी अर्थ

आर्जवेनाभिगन्तव्या विनाशाय हानार्जवम् विनाशका कारण बन जाता है

English

[Bhishma said:] Hearing Narada's words, Vyasa, knower of supreme dharma, firm in his vows, said "So be it," glad, in the study of the Vedas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रत्यादिष्टा नरेन्द्रेण सुलभा न व्यकम्पत

English

With his son Shuka he took up the study of the Vedas, filling the worlds as it were with his loud recitation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततश्नारुतरं वाक्‍्यं॑ प्रचक्रामाथ भाषितुम् अपेतमुपपन्नार्थमष्टादशगुणान्वितम्

English

As the two studied thus, speaking of various dharmas, a wind blew exceedingly, stirred by the ocean's air.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पज्चैतान्यर्थजातानि वाक्यमित्युच्यते नृप

English

Then Vyasa restrained his son, saying, "It is a time of no study." But Shuka, though restrained, was full of curiosity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शृणु संसार्यमाणानां पदार्थपदवाक्यत: जा रहे हैं। आप इनमेंसे एक-एकका अलग-अलग लक्षण सुनिये

English

He asked his father, "Brahmana, whence has this wind come? You ought to tell all the workings of the wind."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्रातिशायिनी बुद्धिस्तत् सौक्ष्म्यमिति वर्तते

English

Hearing this word of Shuka, Vyasa, greatly astonished, spoke these words concerning the cause of the suspension of study.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्धि है, उसीका नाम सौक्ष्म्य है कंचिदर्थमभिप्रेत्य सा संख्येत्युपधार्यताम्

English

"Divine sight has arisen in you; your mind is healthy and pure; freed of tamas and rajas, you are established in sattva.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्रमयोगं तमप्याहुर्वाक्यं वाक्यविदो जना:

English

As one sees one's own reflection in a mirror, so you see the self by the self; placing the Vedas within the self, ponder them with the mind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकार्थसमवेतानि वाक्यं मम निशामय

English

The path of the gods, belonging to Vishnu, and the path of the ancestors, dark: these two paths after death lead to heaven and downward.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वाक्यको आप श्रवण करें नाश्लक्ष्णं न च संदिग्धं वक्ष्यामि परमं ततः

English

On earth and in the sky, where the winds blow, there are seven paths of the winds; learn them in order.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नानृतं न त्रिवर्गेण विरुद्ध नाप्यसंस्कृतम्

English

There the hosts of gods, the Sadhyas, of great strength, came to be; to them too a son was born, named Samana, hard to conquer.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्म, अर्थ और कामके विरुद्ध और संस्कारशून्य ही होगा न शेषमनु कल्पेन निष्कारणमहेतुकम्

English

Udana was his son, Vyana was born as his son, and then Apana is to be known, and after him Prana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आवश्यकता नहीं होगी। यह वाक्य निष्प्रयोजन और युक्तिशून्य भी नहीं होगा

English

Prana was childless, unassailable, a scorcher of foes; I shall tell their separate works as they are.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ह्वीतोडनुक्रोशतो मानाजन्न वक्ष्यामि कथंचन कोई बात नहीं बोलूँगी

English

In living beings the wind everywhere carries on their separate activities; because it breathes in beings, it is called prana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सममेति विवक्षायां तदा सोअ्डर्थ: प्रकाशते

English

The first, which drives clouds born of smoke and heat, is on the first path, the wind named Pravaha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वार्थमाह परार्थ तत् तदा वाक्‍्यं न रोहति विशड्का जायते तस्मिन् वाक्यं तदपि दोषवत्

English

The second, roaring, blows in the sky moisture from clouds and lightning, of excellent radiance, named Avaha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्रोताके हृदयमें आशंका उत्पन्न होती है, अतः वह वाक्य भी दोषयुक्त ही है

English

That which constantly causes the rising of the luminaries, the moon and the others, and within bodies, the great sages call Udana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्रोतुश्चैवात्मनश्वैव स वक्ता नेतरो नूप वही वास्तवमें वक्ता है, दूसरा नहीं

English

That wind which holds water from the four oceans, lifting it up, and takes the waters from the clouds in the sky,

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्रोत्तरमिदं वाक्‍्यं राजन्नेकमना: शृणु अतः इसके उत्तरमें मेरा यह कथन एकचित्त होकर सुनिये

English

which joins the clouds with water and gives them to Parjanya, is the third, always moving, the best rainer, named Udvaha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पृथगात्मान आत्मानं संश्लिष्टा जतुकाष्ठवत्

English

By it, carried in many ways, the dark clouds separately begin to release rain and become dense masses.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शक्ति नहीं है। यही विद्वानोंका निश्चय है नहीं जानता। इसी प्रकार कान भी अपने विषयमें कुछ नहीं जानता

English

By which, struck together, they become the roaring rumblers, and produced for protection they take on cloud-hood.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रत्यक्ष देखनेमें हेतु हैं

English

That which carries the celestial cars of the gods through the sky is the fourth wind named Samvaha, the mountain-crusher.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विचारयति येनायं॑ निश्चये साध्वसाधुनी महासत्त्वो5ल्पसत्त्वो वा जन्तुर्येनानुमीयते

English

By that swift, rough, painful wind, breaking the waters, the clouds are not made into rain-bearers.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ममायमिति येनायं मनन्‍्यते न ममेति च

English

The fifth, of terrible portents, with thunder in the sky, a wind of great speed, is named Vivaha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

है, जिससे जीवात्मा “यह वस्तु मेरी है और यह वस्तु मेरी नहीं है! ऐसा मानता है इति चैकोनविंशोयं द्वन्द्योग इति स्मृत:

English

In which, in its whirl, the divine waters flow through the sky, and it holds fast the holy water of the heavenly Ganga.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इतीम॑ विद्धि विंशत्या भूतानां प्रभवाप्ययम्

English

In which, repelled from afar, the single-rayed sun is the source of a thousand beams, by which the earth shines.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ये दो अन्य प्रकाशक गुण, ये सब मिलकर सत्ताईस हैं प्रकृति सर्वभूतानां पश्यन्त्यध्यात्मचिन्तका:

English

From which the moon is fed, and the divine treasure of nectar, that wind, best of the swift, is named Parivaha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अहं च त्वं च राजेन्द्र ये चाप्यन्ये शरीरिण:

English

It takes away at the end of time the breaths of all living beings; death and Vaivasvata both follow its path.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पेश्यास्त्वड्राभिनिर्वत्तिनखरोमाणि चाड्रत:

English

Which suits immortality those who look rightly with an understanding calm and ever centred in the self, delighting in the practice of meditation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जायते नामरूपत्वं स्त्री पुमान् वेति लिड्गतः कौमारं रूपमापन्नं रूपतो नोपलभ्यते

English

Reaching which with speed the ten thousand sons of Daksha the Prajapati reached the ends of the directions.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनेन क्रमयोगेन पूर्व पूर्व न लभ्यते

English

Created by which, one is overcome and goes, never returning; the supreme wind named Pravaha is hard to pass.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वर्तते सर्वभूतेषु सौक्ष्म्यात् तु न विभाव्यते अवस्थायामवस्थायां दीपस्येवार्चिषो गति:

English

Thus these sons of Aditi, the Maruts, most wonderful, blow without rest, going everywhere and supporting all.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अजसं सर्वलोकस्य क: कुतो वा न वा कुत:

English

This is the great wonder, that this best of mountains was suddenly shaken by that blowing wind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सम्बन्ध: कोस्ति भूतानां स्वैरप्पवयवैरिह जायन्त्येवं समुदयात् कलानामिव जन्तव:

English

This is the breath of Vishnu, dear one; when it is suddenly let loose with speed, the world trembles then.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवमेवात्मना55त्मानमन्यस्मिन् कि न पश्यसि

English

Therefore knowers of Brahman do not recite Brahman when it blows too strongly; the fear of wind from wind is said, and Brahman would be harmed."

हिन्दी अर्थ

अथ मां कासि कस्येति किमर्थमनुपृच्छसि कि “आप कौन हैं और किसकी हैं?”

English

Having said only this, the lord, Parashara's son, said to his son "Study," and then went to the sky-Ganga.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आत्मना55त्मनि सम्पश्येत् किमन्यन्मुक्तलक्षणम्

English

" Yudhishthira said, 'Tell me, O grandsire, what and of what nature is that which is called by the name of Adhyatma and which is laid down for every person. 4 O thou that art acquainted with Brahma, whence has this universe consisting of mobile and immobile things, been created? When universal destruction sets in, to whom does it go? It behoveth thee to discourse to me upon this topic'

हिन्दी अर्थ

भी वह सशंक बना रहता है तथैवास्य भयं तेभ्यो जायते पश्य यादृशम्

English

Seeing the divine sage Narada come, Shuka honoured him with the guest-offering first, by the rule told in the Veda.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सोपाय: सोपनिषद: सोपासड्गभ: सनिश्चय:

English

Then Narada said gladly, "Tell me, best of knowers of Brahman, with what good may I join you, dear one?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वयमेवाप्रुवन्त्येते भावा ननु पराश्रयम् तव राजन् सवर्णास्मि शुद्धयोनिरविप्लुता

English

Hearing Narada's words, Shuka spoke, Bharata: "Whatever would be beneficial in this world, join me with that."

हिन्दी अर्थ

चरित्र है, उसे भी सुनानेकी कृपा करें

English

[Narada said:] "Formerly, to sages of purified selves seeking the truth, the blessed Sanatkumara spoke these words:

हिन्दी अर्थ

नावं धृतिमयीं कृत्वा जन्मदुर्गाणि संतर अमोघासु पतन्‍न्तीषु धर्मपोतेन संतर

English

There is no eye like knowledge, no austerity like knowledge, no sorrow like attachment, no happiness like renunciation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवं शान्त कैसे बैठे हो?

English

Turning away from sinful action, constant merit, good conduct and right behaviour: this is the unsurpassed good.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वृकीवोरणमासाद्य मृत्युरादाय गच्छति ब्राह्म॒ण्यं लभते जन्तुस्तत् पुत्र परिपालय

English

He who clings, having gained the unhappy human state, is bewildered; he is not fit for release from sorrow; attachment is the mark of sorrow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इह क्लेशाय तपसे प्रेत्य त्वनुपमं सुखम्

English

The understanding of the attached wavers, increasing the net of delusion; enveloped in the net of delusion he reaps sorrow here and hereafter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्या लक्षण हो सकता है? चतुरड्डप्रवृत्तानि सड़स्थानानि मे शूणु

English

"Bhishma said 'This, Adhyatma, O son of Pritha, that thou askest me about, I will presently discourse upon. It is highly agreeable and productive of great felicity. Great teachers have (before this) show the truths about Creation and the Destruction (of the universe). Knowing those truths, a person may

हिन्दी अर्थ

एक एव स वै राजा पुरमध्यावसत्युत

English

obtain, even in this world, great satisfaction and felicity. Such knowledge may lead also to the acquisition of great fruits, and it is highly beneficial to all creatures. Earth, air, space, water, and light numbered as the fifth, are regarded as Great Creatures. These constitute both the origin and the destruction of all created objects. Unto him from whom these great primal elements take their origin, they return repeatedly, severing themselves from all creatures (into whose compositions they enter), even like the waves of the ocean (subsiding into that from which they seem to take their rise). As the tortoise stretches its limbs and withdraws them again, even so the Supreme Soul creates all objects and again withdraws into Himself. The Creator places the five primal elements in all created objects in different proportions. The living creature, however, does not see it (through ignorance). Sound, the organs of hearing, and all holes,— these three,— spring from Space as their progenitor. Touch, action, and skin are the triple attributes of the Wind. Form, eye, and digestion are the triple attributes of Fire or Energy. Taste, all liquid secretions, and the tongue represent the three attributes of Water. Scents, the nose, and the body are the triple properties of Earth. The great (primal) elements are five. The mind is the sixth. The senses and the mind, O Bharata, are (the sources of all) the perceptions of a living creature. I The seventh is called the understanding; and the eighth is the soul. 2 The senses are for perceiving; the mind (unable to deal with those perceptions) produces uncertainty. The understanding reduces all perceptions to certainty. The Soul exists as a witness (without acting). All that is above the two feet, all that is behind, and all that is above, are seen by the Soul. Know that the Soul pervades the entire being without any space being left unoccupied. All men should know the senses, the mind, and the understanding fully. The three states or qualities called Darkness, Passion, and Goodness, exist, dependent on the senses, the mind, and the understanding. 3 Man, by apprehending with the aid of his intelligence, the manner in which creatures come and leave the world, is sure to gradually attain to steadfast tranquillity. The three qualities (already mentioned, viz., Darkness, Passion, and Goodness), lead the understanding (to worldly attachments). In this respect, the Understanding (or Intelligence) is identical with the Senses and the Mind. The Understanding, therefore, is identical with the six (the five

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकमात्र नगरमें ही निवास करता है वह बहुत अल्प फलका ही भागी होता है

English

Non-cruelty is the highest dharma, forgiveness the highest strength, self-knowledge the highest knowledge; nothing is higher than truth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मन्त्रे चामात्यसमितौ कुतस्तस्य स्वतन्त्रता

English

To speak truth is good, and what is beneficial would be better than truth; what is utterly beneficial to beings, that I hold to be truth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बैठकर मन्त्रणा करते समय भी उसे कहाँ स्वतन्त्रता रहती है अवश:ः कार्य ते तत्र तस्मिंस्तस्मिन् क्षणे स्थित:

English

One who has given up the fruit of all undertakings, without hope, without possessions, who has abandoned everything, is learned and wise.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शयने चाप्यनुज्ञात: सुप्त उत्थाप्यतेडवश:

English

He moves here with his senses, self-controlled, among the objects of the senses, unattached, calm, unchanging, composed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शय्यापर सोये हुए राजाको भी लोगोंके अनुरोधसे विवश होकर उठना पड़ता है ब्रवीहि शृूणु चापीति विवश: कार्यते परै:

English

Though not made of those things, he is with the senses made of the self, and also without them; such a freed man gains the supreme good before long.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न चाप्युत्सहते दातुं वित्तरक्षी महाजनान्

English

He for whom there is always no seeing, no touching and no conversing with beings, sage, finds the supreme good.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुरक्षित रखना चाहता है क्षणेनास्योपवर्तन्ते दोषा वैराग्यकारका:

English

He should not injure any beings; he should live a life of friendliness; having obtained this birth, he should make enmity with no one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भयमप्यभये राज्ञो यैश्व नित्यमुपास्यते

English

Having nothing, much content, without hope, without fickleness: this they call the highest good of the self-knower, the self-conquered.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जैसा भय प्राप्त होता है, उसको आप स्वयं ही समझ लें

English

Giving up possessions, dear one, become master of the senses; take your stand in the place without sorrow, fearless here and hereafter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निग्रहानुग्रहान् कुर्वस्तुल्यो जनक राजभि: परै: साधारणा होते तैस्तैरेवास्य हेतुभि:

English

Those without flesh do not grieve; give up the flesh of the self; giving up flesh, gentle one, you will be freed from the burning of sorrow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लोकसाधारणेष्वेषु मिथ्याज्ञानेन तप्यते

English

By the sage constant in austerity, self-controlled, restrained in self, wishing to conquer the unconquered, one should be unattached amid attachments.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिरोरोगादिभी रोगैस्तथैवाभिनियन्तृभि: तृणाग्निज्वलनप्रख्यं फेनबुद्बुदसंनिभम्

English

Unattached to attachments to qualities, ever devoted to solitary wandering, a brahmana soon comes to unsurpassed happiness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ममेदमिति यच्चेदं पुरं राष्ट्र च मन्यसे

English

The sage who alone delights among beings who delight in pairs, know him satisfied with wisdom; one satisfied with knowledge does not grieve.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मित्रामात्यपुरं राष्ट्र दण्ड: कोशो महीपति: अन्योन्यगुणयुक्तस्य कः केन गुणतोडधिक:

English

By good deeds one gains godhood, by mixed a human birth, and by bad deeds a lower birth; one obtains these by deeds, helplessly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

येन यत् सिध्यते कार्य तत् प्राधान्याय कल्पते

English

There, constantly assailed by death, old age and sorrow, the creature is cooked in the round of rebirth; why do you not understand it?

हिन्दी अर्थ

समान ही राज्यका उपभोग करते हैं स तुष्येद् दशभागेन ततस्त्वन्यो दशावरै:

English

You take the harmful for the beneficial, the impermanent for the fixed, the worthless for the worthwhile; why do you not understand?

हिन्दी अर्थ

राज्येड्सति कुतो धर्मो धर्मेडसति कुत: परम्

English

Being wrapped by many threads of delusion that you yourself made, like a silkworm wrapping itself, you do not understand.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समर्था शतशो वक्तुमथवापि सहस्रश: न मामेवंविधां युक्तामीदृशं वक्तुमहसि

English

Enough of possessions here; possession is faulty; the silkworm is bound by its own possession.

हिन्दी अर्थ

छत्रादिषु विशेषेषु पुन: सड़: कथ्थ नृप अभिषड्जवरोधाभ्यां बद्धस्त्वं प्राकृतो यथा

English

Attached to sons, wives and family, creatures sink, like old forest elephants stuck in a lake of mud.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कि तवापकृतं तत्र यदि मुक्तोडसि सर्वश:

English

See creatures in great sorrow, drawn by nets of affection, like fish pulled up on land by a great net.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शून्यमावेशयन्त्या च मया कि कस्य दूषितम् न गात्रावयवैरन्यै: स्पृशामि त्वां नराधिप

English

Family, sons and wife, body, heaps of wealth: all is a deceit, impermanent; what is truly one's own, but the good and bad deeds?

हिन्दी अर्थ

नैतत्सदसि वक्तव्यं सद्वाउसद्वा मिथ: कृतम्

English

When you must go, leaving everything, helpless, why are you attached to the worthless and do not do what is your own good?

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्वं चाथ गुरुरप्येषामेवमन्योन्यगौरवम् गुरुस्वरूप हैं। इस प्रकार आप सबका गौरव एक दूसरेपर अवलम्बित है

English

Without rest, without support, without provisions, without guide, a dark wilderness of a road: how will you go alone?

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्त्रीपुंसो: समवायोयं त्वया वाच्यो न संसदि

English

No one will follow behind you as you set out; your good and bad deeds will follow you as you go.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उसी प्रकार मैं आपका स्पर्श न करती हुई आपके भीतर निवास करूँगी ज्ञानं कृतमबीजं ते कथं तेनेह भिक्षुणा

English

Knowledge, action, valour and the many-sided science are pursued for the sake of wealth; but one who has attained his aim is freed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भावाभावसमायोगे जायते वर्णसंकर:

English

This is the binding rope, the delight of one who lives in a village; having cut it, the virtuous go; the wicked do not cut it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नान्यदन्यदिति ज्ञात्वा नान्यदन्यत्र वर्तते अतः वर्णसंकरता नहीं हो सकती

English

A river with form for its banks, mind for its current, touch for its islands, taste for its flow, smell for its mud and sound for its water, hard to cross on the way to heaven.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अश्रिताश्रययोगेन पृथक्त्वेनाश्रिता: पुन:

English

Let one cross it with the boat of understanding, swift, with forgiveness for its oars, made of truth, with those standing in dharma as the mine of barley, with renunciation as the wind on its course.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुले तस्य समुत्पन्नां सुलभां नाम विद्धि माम्

English

Give up dharma and adharma; give up both truth and untruth; having given up both truth and untruth, give up that by which you give up.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मम सत्रेषु पूर्वेषां चिता मघवता सह विनीता मोक्षधर्मेषु चराम्येका मुनिव्रतम्

English

Give up dharma by absence of resolve, adharma by non-violence, both truth and untruth by understanding, and understanding by supreme certainty.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न धर्मसंकरकरी स्वधर्मेडस्मि धृतव्रता

English

Bone is the pillar, bound with sinew, plastered with flesh and blood, covered with skin, foul-smelling, full of urine and excrement.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नासमीक्ष्यागता चेह त्वत्सकाशं जनाधिप नहीं बोलती हूँ और आपके पास भी यहाँ खूब सोच-विचारकर ही आयी हूँ

English

Seized by old age and sorrow, a house of disease, afflicted, impure, impermanent, an abode of creatures: cast it off.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तव मोक्षस्य चाप्यस्य जिज्ञासार्थमिहागता

English

This whole universe, whatever is moving or unmoving, all made of the great elements, whether great or atomic,

हिन्दी अर्थ

मुक्तो व्यायच्छते यश्व शान्तौ यश्च न शाम्याति तथाहं त्वच्छरीरे5स्मिन्निमां वत्स्यामि शर्वरीम्

English

and the five senses, and tamas, sattva and rajas: this heap of seventeen is called the unmanifest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुप्ता सुशरणं प्रीता श्वो गमिष्यामि मैथिल

English

Joined here with all objects of the senses, manifest and unmanifest, this is the twenty-fifth, the quality made of the manifest and unmanifest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कल सबेरे यहाँसे चली जाऊँगी श्रुत्वा नाधिजगौ राजा किज्चिदन्यदत: परम्

English

Joined with all these, he is called the person; here the triple aim, pleasure and pain, life and death.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जनक इसके बाद और कोई बात नहीं बोले

English

He who knows this in truth knows origin and dissolution; son of Parashara, whatever is to be known among knowledges here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विंशत्यधिकत्रिशततमो5ध्याय: एतदिच्छाम्यहं श्रोतुं परं कौतूहलं हि मे

English

Whatever is grasped by the senses, that is held to be manifest; the unmanifest is to be known as what is grasped by inference, beyond the senses.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अध्याप्य कृत्स्नं स्वाध्यायमन्वशाद् वै पिता सुतम् वेदोंका अध्ययन कराया और फिर यह उपदेश दिया

English

The embodied one is nourished by the restrained senses as by streams; in the world he sees the self spread out, and the world in the self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अहिंसां चानृशंस्यं च विधिवत् परिपालय

English

The power of one who sees the high and low does not see the limit of knowledge, for one who always sees all beings in all states.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवतातिथिशेषेण मात्रां प्राणस्य संलिह लिये आस्वादन करो

English

For one who has become Brahman there is no union with the unwholesome; for one who by knowledge has passed beyond the many afflictions born of delusion, by the light of understanding in the world the path of the world is not lost.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनित्ये प्रियसंवासे कं स्वपिषि पुत्रक

English

The blessed one, knower of the sacred fords, speaks of the creature as beginningless and endless, abiding in the self, imperishable, non-doing and formless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अन्तरं लिप्समानेषु बालस्त्वं नावबुध्यसे जीविते लिख्यमाने च किमुत्थाय न धावसि

English

The creature who is ever in sorrow through his own various deeds kills creatures in many ways to ward off sorrow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नहीं हो? (शीघ्रतापूर्वक कर्तव्यपालनमें लग क्‍यों नहीं जाते हो?)

English

Then he takes up another, new, much action, and is again tormented by it, like a sick man after unwholesome food.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्म्य पन्थानमारूढास्तानुपास्स्व च पृच्छ च कुपथगामी मनको काबूमें करो

English

Ceaselessly afflicted by delusion, calling sorrows pleasure, he is bound and churned always by deeds like a churning-stick.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वभक्ष्या न पश्यन्ति कर्मभूमिमचेतस:

English

Then, turned back from his own bondage here by the rise of deeds, he wanders in the round of rebirth with much pain like a wheel.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कोषकारदवदात्मान वेष्टयन्नानुबुध्यसे तुम्हें चेत नहीं हो रहा है

English

Therefore, turned back from kin and from action, become all-knowing, all-conquering, perfected, free of states of being.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वामत: कुरु विस्रब्धो नरं वेणुमिवोद्धृतम्

English

Many, having turned back new bondage by restraint through the strength of austerity, have attained perfection, unobstructed and the source of happiness."