Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

मासाड्रे द्रवति वयोहयो नराणाम् धर्मे ते भवतु मन: परं निशाम्य

English

senses and the mind), and also with the objects comprehended by it. When, however, the Understanding is destroyed, the three

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभिद्रवन्ति सर्वतो यतस्व पुण्यशीलने

English

Thousands of occasions of sorrow and hundreds of occasions of fear enter the fool day after day, not the wise man.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वमेव कर्म रक्ष्यतां स्वकर्म तत्र गच्छति तथा कृतं स्वकर्मजं तदेव भुज्यते फलम्

English

Therefore, to destroy the undesired, learn from me this old story; if the mind stays under control, it gains the destruction of sorrow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जन्मान्तरमें विशुद्ध योनिमें जन्म लेकर उसका वैसा ही फल पाते हैं व्रजन्ति ते परां गतिं गृहस्थधर्मसेतुभि:

English

From meeting with the undesired and parting from the dear, men of little understanding are joined with mental sorrows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अबुद्धिमोहनं पुन: प्रभुर्निनाय पावक:

English

One should not think of the merits of things that are past; one who does not esteem them is freed from the bond of affection.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुरुष्व धर्मसंचयं वयो हि तेडतिवर्तते यथागृहीतमुत्थितस्त्वरस्व धर्मपालने

English

One should see faults where passion operates; seeing the beneficial as if undesired, one soon becomes dispassionate.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करनेके लिये जल्दी करो

English

He who grieves over the past gains neither wealth nor dharma nor fame; he is joined with non-being, and it is not turned back for him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भयेषु साम्परायिकं निधत्स्व केवलं निधिम् न सन्ति यस्य वारका: कुरुष्व धर्मसंनिधिम्

English

Beings are joined with qualities and parted from them likewise; in all this there is no occasion for sorrow for any one alone.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वदर्शनानुमानत: प्रवर्णितं कुरुष्व तत्

English

He who grieves over the dead or the lost, the past, gains sorrow through sorrow; he incurs two evils.

हिन्दी अर्थ

फलस्वरूप उसे अप्राप्त एवं निर्दोष सुख प्राप्त होता है

English

qualities (of Darkness, Passion, and Goodness) are incapable of leading to action, l This universe of immobile and mobile things consists of that intelligence. It is from that Intelligence that everything arises and it is into it that everything subsides. For this reason, the scriptures indicate that everything is a manifestation of Intelligence. That by which one hears is the ear. That by which one smells is called the organ of smell, and that by which one distinguishes the tastes is called the tongue. By the coat that covers the body one acquires perception of touch. That which is called the Intelligence undergoes modifications. 2 When the Intelligence desires anything it comes to be called Mind. The foundations upon which the Intelligence rests are five in number, each serving a different purpose. They are called the senses. The invisible principle, viz., Intelligence rests on them. The Intelligence that exists in a living creature concerns itself with the three states (called Passion, Darkness, and Goodness). Sometimes it obtains joy and sometimes misery. Sometimes it becomes divested of both joy and misery. Even thus the Intelligence exists in the minds of all men. Sometimes the Intelligence which is made up of the triple states (already mentioned), transcends those three states (by yoga), like the lord of rivers, viz., the Ocean, with his surges, transgressing his high continents. 3 That Intelligence which transcends the three qualities exist in the mind in a pure state of (unmodified) existence: alone. The quality of Darkness, however, that impels to action, soon pursues it. At that time, the Intelligence sets all the senses to action. The properties of the three are even thus: joy dwells in Goodness; sorrow in Passion; delusion in Darkness. All the states that exist (of the mind) are included in the three (that have been named). I have now, O Bharata, told thee about the course of the Understanding. An intelligent man should subdue all his senses.. The three qualities of Goodness, Passion, and Darkness, are always attached to living creatures. Three kinds of intelligence also are noticeable in every creature, viz., that which depends upon Goodness, that upon Passion, and that upon Darkness, O Bharata. The quality of Goodness brings happiness; the quality of Passion produces sorrow; and if these two combine with the quality of

हिन्दी अर्थ

जाकर वहाँ अत्यन्त दुःख भोगता रहता है चिरस्य मृत्युकारिकामनागतां न बुध्यसे

English

Darkness, then neither happiness nor sorrow is produced (but, instead, only delusion or error). Every state of happiness that appears in the body or the mind is said to be due to the quality of Goodness. A state of sorrow, disagreeable to oneself, that comes, is due to nothing but the quality of Passion. One should never think of it with fear, l That state, again, which is allied with delusion and error, and in consequence of which one knows not what to do, which is unascertainable and unknown, should be regarded as belonging to the quality of Darkness. 2 Gladness, satisfaction, delight, happiness, tranquillity of heart, these are the properties of the state of Goodness. Man sometimes obtains a measure of them. Discontent, heart-burning, grief, cupidity, vindictiveness are all indications of the state of Passion. They are seen with or without adequate causes for producing them. Disgrace, delusion , error, sleep and stupefaction, that overtake one through excess of ill-luck, are the various properties of the state of Darkness. 3 That person whose mind is far-reaching, capable of extending in all directions, mistrustful

हिन्दी अर्थ

उसका तुम्हें पता ही नहीं है

English

This is the medicine for sorrow: not to dwell on it; being thought of, it does not go, and grows further.

हिन्दी अर्थ

परमानन्दकी प्राप्तिके लिये प्रयत्न करो त्वमन्तकाय दारुणै: प्रयत्नमार्जवे कुरु

English

By wisdom one should destroy mental sorrow, and bodily sorrow by medicines; know this power, and do not become equal to children.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तवेह जीवितं यमो न चास्ति तस्य वारक:

English

Youth, beauty, life, hoards of wealth, health and dear company are impermanent; the wise man would not be greedy for them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समय आनेके पहले ही तुम अपनी रक्षाके लिये प्रबन्ध कर लो परलोकमें सुख देनेवाले धर्मका आचरण करो

English

One alone is not fit to grieve over the sorrow of the whole country; without grieving one should counter it, if one sees a remedy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरा च विभ्रमन्ति ते दिशो महाभयागमे

English

There is, without doubt, more sorrow than happiness in life; and affection for objects of the senses makes death unwelcome through delusion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

घूमती दिखायी देंगी; अत: पहलेसे ही सावधान हो जाओ समाकुलस्य गच्छत: समाधिमुत्तमं कुरु

English

The man who gives up sorrow and happiness, both, goes utterly to Brahman; the wise do not grieve for him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्मरन् पुरा न तप्यसे निधत्स्व केवलं निधिम्

English

Possessions are given up with sorrow; in guarding them they are not happy; they are gained with sorrow; one should not dwell on their loss.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बलाड्ररूपहारिणी निधत्स्व केवलं निधिम् प्रसह्म जीवितक्षये तपो महत् समाचर

English

Men, having gained one after another distinguished state of wealth, go to ruin unsatisfied; the wise attain contentment.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विचालयमन्ति दर्शनाद् घटस्व पुत्र यत्परम् मृतं च यन्न मुडचति समर्जयस्व तद् धनम्

English

All hoards end in loss, risings end in falling, unions end in parting, and life ends in death.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पड़ता है। वहाँ तो जो जिसकी निजी सम्पत्ति है, उसे ही वह भोगता है

English

Thirst has no end; contentment is the highest happiness; therefore the wise see contentment alone as wealth here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धनं यदक्षरं ध्रुवं समर्जयस्व तत् स्वयम् ज्ञानरूपी धनके उपार्जनके लिये शीघ्रता करो

English

Life does not stay, even for the twinkling of an eye, as it goes; in impermanent bodies of one's own what is to be thought of as permanent?

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनुव्रजन्ति संकटे व्रजन्तमेकपातिनम्

English

Those who, reflecting on non-existence among beings, have understood what is beyond darkness do not grieve, having travelled the road, seeing the supreme goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदेव पुत्र सार्थिकं भवत्यमुत्र गच्छत: होता है, केवल वही साथ रहता है

English

As a tiger seizes an animal, Death takes this man who is still collecting and unsatisfied with desires.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न तस्य देहसंक्षये भवन्ति कार्यसाधका:

English

Yet if one can see a way to release from sorrow, one should begin it without grieving, and be steady and free of calamity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न साक्षि आत्मना समो नृणामिहास्ति कश्नन आत्माके समान मनुष्योंमें दूसरा कोई नहीं है

English

In sound, touch, form, smell and taste, there is nothing higher than enjoyment, for the rich or the poor.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रविश्य बुद्धिचक्षुषा प्रदृश्यते हि सर्वश:

English

Before the union of beings there is no sorrow or sickness; from parting of everyone one should not grieve, standing in one's nature.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नेत्रसे वहाँ सब कुछ देखता है त एव तस्य साक्षिणो भवन्ति धर्मदर्शिन:

English

One should guard the genitals and belly by steadiness, the hands and feet by the eye, the eye and ear by the mind, the mind and speech by knowledge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रकाशगूढवृत्तिषु स्वधर्ममेव पालय

English

Drawing back attachment from the praised and the others, one should move unelated; he is happy and he is wise.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इच्छानुसार विचरते और पुण्यकर्मजनित सुख भोगते हैं

English

He who sits delighting in the self, indifferent, without flesh, wandering with only the self as companion, is happy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्ञानका उपदेश किया है, तुम उसीके अनुसार आचरण करो अबुद्धिमोहजैर्गुणैः स एक एव युज्यते

English

in respect of winning the objects it desires, and well-restrained, is happy both here and hereafter. 4 Mark the distinction between these two subtile things, viz., Intelligence and Soul. One of these (viz., intelligence), puts forth the qualities. The other (viz., the Soul), does nothing of the kind. A gnat and a fig may be seen to be united with each other. Though united, each however is distinct from the other. Similarly, Intelligence and Soul, though distinguished from each other, by their respective natures, yet they may always be seen to exist in a state of union. A fish and water exist in a state of union, Each, however, is different from the other. The same is the case with Intelligence and Soul. The qualities do not know the Soul, but the Soul knows them all. The Soul is the spectator of the qualities and regards them all as proceeding from itself. The soul, acting through the senses, the mind, and the understanding numbering as the seventh, all of which are inactive and have no self-consciousness, discovers the objects (amid which it exists) like a (covered) lamp showing all objects around it by shedding its rays through an aperture in the covering. The understanding or Intelligence creates all the qualities. The Soul only beholds them (as a witness). Even such is certainly the connection between the intelligence and the Soul. 5 There is no refuge on which either Intelligence or Soul depends.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः क्लेशमवाप्रोति परत्रेह तथैव च

English

By nature one should make effort; a man of effort does not sink; one should raise the beloved self from old age, death and disease.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शेते सह शयानेन येन येन यथा कृतम् करोति कुर्वतः कर्म च्छायेवानुविधीयते

English

Diseases, bodily and mental, afflict bodies like sharp-pointed arrows shot by skilled archers.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जन्म कैसे हुआ? तथा उन्होंने परम सिद्धि कैसे प्राप्त की? यह मुझे बताइये

English

For the sick man, by the desires of treatments, trembling, wishing to live, the helpless body is dragged away to destruction.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धैर्यशाली पुत्र प्राप्त हो, तपस्या आरम्भ की थी वरयामास देवेशमास्थितस्तप उत्तमम्

English

Like the currents of rivers, they flow and do not return, taking the life of mortals night and day again and again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुकी भूत्वा महाराज घृताची समुपागमत्

English

This alternation of the bright and dark fortnights is utter; it wears out a born mortal and does not stay for a wink.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुकदेवजीका जन्म हो गया। वे अरणीके ही गर्भसे प्रकट हुए यथाध्वरे समिद्धो3ग्निर्भाति हव्यमुदावहम्

English

The ageless sun, wearing out the pleasure and pain of beings, goes to its setting and rises again and again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बिशभ्रत् पितुश्च कौरव्य रूपवर्णमनुत्तमम्

English

Taking pleasant and unpleasant states of men, unseen before and unsuspected, the nights go to their setting.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तं गड़ा सरितां श्रेष्ठा मेरुपृष्ठे जनेश्वर और उन्होंने अपने जलसे शुकदेवजीको तृप्त किया

English

Whatever one wished, as desired, of desires, one would obtain, if the fruit of a man's action were not dependent on another.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गुणोंसे संयुक्त होता है

English

The Understanding creates the mind, but never the qualities. When the soul, by means of the mind, sufficiently restrains the rays that emanate from the senses, it is then that it becomes manifest (to the Understanding) like a lamp burning within a vessel that covers it. That person who renounces all ordinary acts, practises penances, devotes himself to study the Soul, taking a delight therein, and regards himself as the Soul of all creatures, acquires a high end. As an aquatic fowl, while moving over the waters, is never drenched in that element, even thus does a person of wisdom move (in the world) among creatures. By the aid of one's intelligence one should act in the world after this fashion, without grief, without joy, with an equal eye for all, and destitute of malice and envy. One living in this way succeeds in creating the qualities (instead of being oneself affected by them), like a spider creating threads. I The qualities should, indeed, be regarded as the threads of the spider. Some say that the qualities in respect of such men are not lost. Some say that they are all lost. Those who say that they are not lost rely upon the revealed scriptures (viz., the Srutis), which do not contain any declaration to the contrary. They, on the other hand, who say that the qualities are all lost rely on the Smritis. Reflecting upon both these opinions, one should judge oneself as to which of them is right. One should thus get over this hard and knotty question which is capable c f disturbing the understanding by doubt, and thereby win happiness. When that doubt will be removed, one will no longer have to indulge in sorrow of any kind. Men of filthy hearts may by knowledge obtain success like persons plunging in a well-filled stream purifying themselves of all filth. One who has to cross a broad river does not feel happy at only seeing the other shore. If the case were otherwise (i.e., if by only beholding the other shore one could reach it by a boat), then might one become happy. The matter is otherwise with one acquainted with the Truth. The mere knowledge of Truth will bring him happiness. As soon as such knowledge begins to bear fruits, the person may be regarded to have reached the other shore. They who thus know the Soul as freed from all worldly objects and is but the One, are said to obtain high and excellent knowledge. 2 A person by knowing the origin and the end of all creatures, which is even such, and by reflecting upon the matter, gradually obtains infinite happiness. He that has understood the triple aggregate (viz., that it is liable to destruction instead of being eternal), and reflecting upon it, casts it

हिन्दी अर्थ

नहीं देखती कि इसका काम पूरा हुआ है या नहीं अग्नौ प्रक्षिप्य पुरुष ज्ञातय: सुहृदस्तथा

English

Others, foolish, devoid of qualities, lowest of men, are seen as desirers of everything, though unjoined even with blessings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भूलकर भी उनका साथ न दो

English

One who is constantly bent on harming beings and cheating the world grows old in pleasures alone.

हिन्दी अर्थ

महान् धैर्यका आश्रय ले सम्पूर्ण हृदयसे धर्मका आचरण करो तथा55त्मानं समादध्याद् भ्रश्यते न पुनर्यथा

English

Fortune attends someone sitting without effort; another, following his deeds, does not reach what is to be obtained.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तमाहु: पुण्यकर्माणमशोच्यं पुत्रबान्धवै:

English

Tell the fault of the man by his own nature: seed produced in one place goes again to another.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लिये कदापि शोचनीय नहीं है स्वर्गे कृतावकाशस्य नास्ति तस्य महद् भयम्

English

For one attached to the womb, there may or may not be an embryo; the end, like a mango blossom, is seen.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेषामल्पतरो धर्म: कामभोगानजानताम्

English

For some who desire sons, wishing continuity of line and striving for success, there is no joy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनागतान्यतीतानि कस्य ते कस्य वा वयम् न तं पश्यामि यस्याहं तन्न पश्यामि यो मम

English

Fearing the womb as one fears an angry serpent, how is a long-lived son born, dead, that very father?

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वकृतैस्तानि यातानि भवांश्वैव गमिष्यति

English

Having worshipped the gods and practised austerity, pitiful ones greedy for sons bear for ten months those who are born as disgraces of the family.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हैं। वे अपने कर्मोके साथ चले गये और तुम भी चले जाओगे स्वजनस्तु दरिद्राणां जीवतामपि नश्यति

English

Others are born to abundant wealth, grain and enjoyments stored by the fathers, and obtained by those very blessings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत् कुरुष्व तथा पुत्र कृत्स्नं यत् समुदाह्मतम् देखता है, अत: बेटा! मैंने जो कुछ कहा है, वह सब काममें लाओ

English

Looking at one another at the union of intercourse, the embryo enters the womb as if seized by an upheaval.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुभान्याचरितव्यानि परलोकमभीप्सता

English

The embodied one, worn down by another's body, skinless, with the movement of flesh and phlegm when the breaths of beings are stopped.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भूतानि काल: पचति प्रसह शुको गत: परित्यज्य पितरं मोक्षहैशिकम्

English

Burnt by another's body, moving and unmoving in another's body, perishing at the end of perishing, like a boat placed on a boat.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नामैकविंशत्यधिकत्रिशततमो5 ध्याय:

English

The drop of semen placed in the womb by union, insentient: by what effort do you see it living as an embryo here?

हिन्दी अर्थ

गुरूणां वापि शुश्रूषा तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह मिलता है तो वह मुझे बताइये

English

In the very belly where food and drink are digested and what is eaten is consumed, why is the embryo not digested like food?

हिन्दी अर्थ

मृतेभ्य: प्रमृता यान्ति दरिद्रा: पापकर्मिण:

English

The course of the embryo's urine and excrement is fixed by nature; in holding or releasing, the doer has no control.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भयको पाते हुए मरे हुओंसे भी अधिक मृतकतुल्य हो जाते हैं श्रद्दधानाश्ष दान्ताश्न धनस्था: शुभकारिण:

English

Embryos flow from the belly, and others are born; for others destruction comes with the coming.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हस्तावापेन गच्छन्ति नास्तिका: किमत: परम्

English

One who, living, is freed from this connection with the womb, and gains a child, sinks again in the pairs.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आदिके भयसे भरे हुए होते हैं। इससे बढ़कर उन्हें और क्या दण्ड मिल सकता है? क्षेम्यमात्मवतां मार्गमास्थिता हस्तदक्षिणम्

English

Of a hundred born together, they reach the seventh and tenth stages; after that five do not become hundred-year-lived.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रखनेवाले योगियोंको ही प्राप्त होने योग्य मार्गपर आरूढ़ होते हैं

English

In the rising up of men, undoubtedly there are no means; they are crushed by diseases like small deer by beasts of prey.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत् तदेकतरो भुद्ुक्ते नित्यं विहितमात्मना

English

For those devoured by diseases, giving up vast wealth, physicians, though striving, do not remove the pain.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किये हुए उन कर्मोंका फल सदा अकेला ही भोगता है स्वं काल॑ नातिवर्तन्ते तथा कर्म पुरा कृतम्

English

Those skilled physicians too, clever, with medicines gathered, are dragged by diseases like deer tormented by hunters.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पग-पगपर प्राप्त होते हैं और प्रारब्धभोगके पश्चात् पुनः निवृत्त हो जाते हैं

English

Drinking decoctions and various ghees, they are seen broken by old age, like elephants by better elephants.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गर्भशय्यामुपादाय भुज्यते पौर्वदेहिकम् उपभोग करने लगता है

English

Who on earth treats beasts, birds, wild animals and the poor when they are sick? Mostly they are not afflicted.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्यां तस्यामवस्थायां भुड्धक्ते जन्मनि जन्मनि

English

Disease attacks even fierce, unassailable kings of terrible energy, and takes them as a butcher takes beasts.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा पूर्वकृतं कर्म कर्तारमनुगच्छति पहलेका किया हुआ कर्म भी अपने कर्ताके पास पहुँच जाता है

English

Thus the world, silent, flooded with delusion and sorrow, is suddenly swept by a current and carried by a stronger one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपवासै: प्रतप्तानां दीर्घ सुखमनन्तकम्

English

Not by wealth, nor by kingdom, nor by fierce austerity do embodied beings escape the natures to which they are bound.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्मनिर्धूतपापानां संसिध्यन्ते मनोरथा: गये हैं, उनके सम्पूर्ण मनोरथ सिद्ध हो जाते हैं

English

They would not die nor grow old, all would have all they desire, and none would see the unpleasant, as the fruit of their effort.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पद यथा न दृश्येत तथा पुण्यकृतां गति:

English

Everyone in the world wishes to be above others and strives as he can, but it does not turn out so.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पेशलं चानुरूपं च कर्तव्यं हितमात्मन: सिद्धि च परमां प्राप्तस्तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह

English

The intoxicated with the pride of lordship and with the pride of wine are attended by the unwearied, the crafty, the cruel and the bold.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न हास्य जननीं विद्य जन्म चाग्र्यं महात्मन: यथा नान्यस्य लोके5स्मिन् द्वितीयस्येह कस्यचित्

English

For some, afflictions turn back unforeseen; for others one's own and the other's are again lost; nothing at all is reached.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उनके सिवा दूसरे किसीकी ऐसी बुद्धि नहीं देखी गयी

English

A great inequality of fruit is seen at the joints of action: some carry the palanquin, others go riding in palanquins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न हि मे तृप्तिरस्तीह शृण्वतोमृतमुत्तमम् यथावदानुपूर्व्येण तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह

English

Among all who desire prosperity, others go ahead of chariots; men with a hundred wives, and women by hundreds as widows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इन्द्रियोंका संयम करनेसे ही तपस्याकी सिद्धि होती है, अन्यथा नहीं

English

Among beings delighting in the pairs, men go one by one; see this other, supreme; you will make a mere delusion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संनियम्य तु तान्येव सिद्धिमाप्रोति मानव: और उन्हीं इन्द्रियोंको काबूमें कर लेनेपर वह सिद्धिका भागी होता है

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

समझमें न आनेवाली उनकी उत्कृष्ट गति बता रहा हूँ

English

This highest secret has been told to you, best of sages, by which gods, leaving the world of mortals, have gone to heaven.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विजहार महादेवो भीमैर्भूतगणैर्वत: तत्र दिव्यं तपस्तेपे कृष्णद्वैषयायनस्तदा

English

[Bhishma said:] Hearing Narada's words, Shuka of supreme intelligence, steadfast, pondered in his mind and did not arrive at a decision.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्रीकृष्णद्वैपायन व्यास उस पर्वतपर दिव्य तपस्या कर रहे थे

English

With sons and wives is great affliction, in studying the tradition is great toil; what then would be the eternal state, of little affliction and great content?

हिन्दी अर्थ

धारयन् स तप्स्तेपे पुत्रार्थ कुरुसत्तम धारणापूर्वक तपका अनुष्ठान करते थे। उनके तपका उद्देश्य था पुत्रकी प्राप्ति

English

Then, thinking for a moment, knowing the high and low of dharma, he found his own settled goal, the supreme path of the highest good.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धैर्येण सम्मित: पुत्रो मम भूयादिति सम ह

English

"How may I go to the supreme goal unafflicted, and not return again to the ocean of rebirth in wombs?

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरुषोंके लिये दुर्लभ देवेश्वर महादेवजीसे वर-प्रार्थना की

English

I long for the supreme state from which one does not return, giving up all attachments, the settled course of the mind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आराधयन्महादेवं बहुरूपमुमापतिम् लोकपालाश्च लोकेशं साध्याश्व बहुभि: सह

English

I shall go where the self will find peace for me, where I shall stand imperishable, unchanging and eternal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वसवो मरुतश्चैव सागरा: सरितस्तथा

English

That supreme goal cannot be reached without yoga; for a freed one, no bondage arises from deeds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्रयाणामपि लोकानां तदद्भुतमिवाभवत् प्रज्वलन्त्य: सम दृश्यन्ते युक्तस्यामिततेजस:

English

Therefore, taking up yoga and leaving the body of the house, becoming wind, I shall enter the sun, the mass of splendour.

हिन्दी अर्थ

महेश्वर: प्रसन्नात्मा चकार मनसा मतिम्

English

For this moon is not destroyed, though the host of gods trembling falls to earth and climbs again; the moon always wanes and is again filled.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मन-ही-मन उन्हें अभीष्ट वर देनेका विचार किया एवंविधस्ते तनयो द्वैपायन भविष्यति

English

But the sun scorches the worlds with fierce rays, taking splendour on every side, its disc ever undiminished.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथा च खं तथा शुद्धों भविता ते सुतो महान्

English

Therefore I wish to go to the sun of blazing splendour; there I shall dwell, unassailable, with an inner self free of attachment.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्रयोविंशत्यधिकत्रिशततमोध्याय: अरणी सहिते गृहा ममन्थाग्निचिकीर्षया

English

And leaving this body in the sun's abode, I shall go with the sages to the solar splendour, very hard to bear.

हिन्दी अर्थ

घृताचीं नामाप्सरसमपश्यद् भगवानृषि:

English

I take leave of the trees, serpents, mountains, earth, directions and sky, of the gods, danavas, gandharvas, pishachas, uragas and rakshasas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अप्सराको देखा, जो अपने तेजसे परम मनोहर रूप धारण किये हुए थी अभवद् भगवान् व्यासो वने तस्मिन् युधिष्ठिर

English

I shall enter all beings in the worlds, doubtless; let all the gods with the sages see the power of my yoga."

हिन्दी अर्थ

शरीरजेनानुगद: सर्वगात्रातिगेन ह न शशाक नियमन्तुं तद् व्यास: प्रविसृतं मन:

English

Then, having taken leave of the world-famous sage Narada, and having gained his permission, he went to his father.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गये हुए मनको रोकनेमें वे किसी तरह समर्थ न हो सके

English

Saluting the great-souled sage Dvaipayana, the sage Shuka circled him and took leave of Krishna.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यत्नान्नियच्छतस्तस्य मुनेरग्निचिकीर्षया ही लगे रहे। उसी समय अरणीसे शुकदेवजी प्रकट हो गये

English

Hearing Shuka's words, the great-souled sage, pleased, said to him again: "Ho, ho, son! Stay for today, until I satisfy my eyes with you."

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुक्रे निर्मथ्यामाने स शुको जज्ञे महातपा:

English

Becoming indifferent, Shuka, without affection, his bonds loosed, thinking only of liberation, set his mind on going; leaving his father, the best of the twice-born went.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जेगीयन्ते सम गन्धर्वा ननृतुश्चाप्सरोगणा:

English

away, succeeds by yoga to behold the Truth and obtain perfect felicity. The Soul is incapable of being seen unless the senses, which are employed on diverse objects and are difficult of being controlled, be all duly restrained. He that knows this is really wise. What other indication is there of a wise man? Acquiring this knowledge, men possessed of intelligence regard themselves to be crowned with success. That which inspires the ignorant with fear can never inspire fear in persons of Knowledge. There is no

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथा मे मनस: शान्ति: परमा सम्भवेत् प्रभो अधीष्व पुत्र मोक्ष वै धर्माश्न विविधानपि

English

The great sage held himself as the scriptures prescribe, knowing the order of yoga, in order from the feet onward through the limbs.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आर्यावर्तमिमं देशभाजगाम महामुनि:

English

Then, facing east, the learned one, when the sun had newly risen, composed his hands and feet and sat down humbly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अध्यानं सो5तिचक्राम खेचर: खे चरज्निव रत्नानि च विचित्राणि पश्यन्नपि न पश्यति

English

There was no flock of birds, no sound, nor any sight, where the wise son of Vyasa began to practise yoga.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पल्लीघोषान् समृद्धांश्व बहुगोकुलसंकुलान्

English

He saw himself then released from his attachments; Shuka, looking at the sun, laughed a great laugh.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पद्मिनीभिश्व शतश: श्रीमतीभिरलड्कृतान् मिथिलोपवनं रम्यमाससाद समृद्धिमत्

English

Taking up yoga again for the attainment of the path of liberation, he became a great lord of yogis and passed into the sky.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पश्यन्नपश्यन्निव तत् समतिक्रामदच्युत:

English

Then, circling the divine sage Narada, he made known his yoga to the supreme sage.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आत्माराम: प्रसन्नात्मा मिथिलामाससाद ह तत्रापि द्वारपालास्तमुग्रवाचा न्यषेधयन्

English

"The path is seen, I have set out; blessings on you, wealth of austerity; by your grace I shall go to the desired goal, greatly radiant one."

हिन्दी अर्थ

उन्हें कष्ट नहीं दे सकी थी

English

Permitted by Narada, Dvaipayana's son saluted him, took up yoga again and entered the sky.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्र शक्रपुरोगाश्चव॒ लोकपाला: समागता: इन्द्र आदि सम्पूर्ण लोकपाल, देवता, देवर्षि और ब्रह्मर्षि भी वहाँ आये

English

higher end for anybody (than Emancipation). In consequence, however, of the excess or otherwise of good qualities, the sages say that differences are observable in respect of the degree of Emancipation. A person by acting without expectation of fruits succeeds (by those acts) in annihilating his sinful acts of a former period. To one possessed of wisdom, the acts of a former period (thus washed off) and those of this life also (which are accomplished without expectation of fruit), do not become productive of any disagreeable consequence (such as immurement in hell). But how can acts, if he continues to be engaged in accomplishing acts, bring about what is agreeable (viz., Emancipation)? l People censure a person that is afflicted (with lust, envy, and other evil passions). Those vices hurl the person in his next life into diverse kinds of inferior orders. 2 Mark with close attention the vicious in this world who grieve exceedingly for the loss of their possessions (such as sons and wives, etc.). Behold also those that are gifted with judgment and who never grieve when thrown into similar circumstances. Those that are conversant with both (i.e., with gradual Emancipation and immediate Emancipation), deserve to be called truly wise.'"

हिन्दी अर्थ

दिव्यानि सर्वपुष्पाणि प्रववर्ष च मारुत:

English

for yoga-dharma as depending upon or as an attribute of the mind. Generally speaking, all speculations on the character of the mind and its relations with external objects are included in the word Adhyatma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त॑ महात्मा स्वयं प्रीत्या देव्या सह महाद्युति: तस्य देवेश्वर: शक्रो दिव्यमद्भुतदर्शनम्

English

explains that it arises from the declaration of Bhishma that Righteousness is a property of the mind, and is, besides, the root of everything. (V 31, sec. 193, ante). Hence the enquiry about Adhyatma as also about the origin of all things.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आरणेयस्ततो दिव्यं प्राप्प जन्म महाद्युति:

English

between the mind, the understanding, and the soul. The mind is the seat or source of all feelings and emotions as also all our perceptions, or those which are called cognitions in the Kantian school, including Comparison which (in the Kantian school) is called the Vernuft or Reason. This last is called the Understanding or buddhi. The soul is regarded as something distinct from both the body and the

हिन्दी अर्थ

उत्पन्नमात्र तं वेदा: सरहस्या: ससंग्रहा: बृहस्पतिं च वत्रे स वेदवेदाड्रभाष्यवित्

English

As far as they could and as was proper, they paid him honour, and the dwellers of heaven showered him with divine flowers.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सोधीत्य निखिलान् वेदान् सरहस्यान् ससंग्रहान्

English

Seeing him, all the troops of gandharvas and apsarases were astonished, and the sages and perfected ones came to supreme wonder.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गुरवे दक्षिणां दत्त्वा समावृत्तो महामुनि: सम्मन्त्रणीयो मान्यश्न ज्ञानेन तपसा तथा

English

"Who is this sky-goer, who has attained perfection through austerity, whose body is turned downward and face upward, borne along by his eyes?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्रिषु गार्हस्थ्यमूलेषु मोक्षधर्मानुदर्शिन:

English

Then he of supremely steady mind, renowned in the three worlds, looking at the sun, facing east and silent, went, filling all the sky as it were with sound on every side.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अवलम्बित रहनेवाले तीनों आश्रमोंमें प्रसन्नताका अनुभव नहीं करती थी चतुर्विशत्यधिकत्रिशततमोध्याय:

English

Seeing him suddenly approach, all the troops of apsarases, O king, were bewildered and greatly astonished, Panchachuda and the rest, their eyes wide open.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राहाभिवाद्य च गुरु श्रेयोडर्थी विनयान्वितः

English

"Which deity is this, who has taken the highest path? He comes here firmly resolved, like one freed and without desire."

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्मोका अध्ययन करो'

English

Then he passed the mountain named Malaya, which Urvashi and Purvachitti always frequent, and they came to the highest wonder at the Brahmarishi's son.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सांख्यका अध्ययन किया मेने पुत्र यदा व्यासो मोक्षधर्मविशारदम्

English

"Ah, the concentration of understanding in a twice-born devoted to the study of the Vedas! In no long time he moves in the sky like the moon; he has gained this unsurpassed success by serving his father.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स ते वक्ष्यति मोक्षार्थ निखिल मिथिलेश्वर:

English

Devoted to his father, firm in austerity, a son dear to his father: how is he separated from that father, with a mind set on none other?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रष्टं धर्मस्य निष्ठां वै मोक्षस्य च परायणम् कदापि यात्रा न करना

English

Hearing Urvashi's words, Shuka, knower of supreme dharma, looked toward all the directions, his mind set on her speech.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नान्वेष्टव्या विशेषास्तु विशेषा हि प्रसज्धिन:

English

Then he looked at the sky and the earth with its mountains, woods and forests, and at the lakes and rivers.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रति आसक्ति हो जाती है स्थातव्यं च वशे तस्य स ते छेत्स्यति संशयम्

English

Then all the goddesses, with joined palms, looked upon Dvaipayana's son with great respect.

हिन्दी अर्थ

याज्यो मम स यद् ब्रूयात् तत् कार्यमविशड्कया

English

Then Shuka, knower of supreme dharma, said to them: "If my father follows me, crying 'Shuka!',

हिन्दी अर्थ

दें, उसीका नि:शंक होकर पालन करना” पद्धयां शक्तोन्तरिक्षेण क्रान्तुं पृथ्वीं ससागराम्

English

then all of you together must reply; out of affection for me, you should all do this."

हिन्दी अर्थ

आकाशभमार्गसे सारी पृथ्वीको लाँघ जानेमें समर्थ थे, तो भी पैदल ही चले

English

Hearing Shuka's words, the directions with their groves, the oceans, the rivers and the mountains replied to him on every side:

हिन्दी अर्थ

बहुव्यालमृगाकीर्णा हाटवीश्व वनानि च क्रमेणैवं व्यतिक्रम्प भारतं वर्षमासदत्

English

"As you command, brahmana, so it shall be; when the sage speaks, we shall answer."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेषां तु द्वारणालानामेक: शोकसमन्वित: पूजयित्वा यथान्यायमभिवाद्य कृताज्जलि:

English

mind. It is the Being to whom the body and the mind belong. It is represented as inactive, and as the all- seeing witness within the physical frame. It is a portion of the Supreme Soul.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुर: पुरोहितं कृत्वा सर्वाण्यन्त:पुराणि च

English

Leaving the eightfold tamas, he left the fivefold rajas, then the wise one left sattva; it seemed wonderful.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवतानां 38 (40402 हानसूयक: अनसूयुर्यथान्यायमाहिताग्निस्तथैव च

English

Then, in that eternal state, without qualities and without marks, he established himself in Brahman, like a blazing fire without smoke.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विहाय देहान्निर्मुक्तो निर्दन्द्ः प्रशमं गत:

English

Meteors fell, the directions burned, and earthquakes appeared in that moment; it seemed wonderful.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आत्मामें लगा देता है, उस समय वह ब्रह्मको प्राप्त हो जाता है समो भवति निर्दन्द्धो ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा

English

Trees shed their branches, mountains their peaks, and with crashing sounds the Himalaya seemed to split.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्मभावको प्राप्त हो जाता है

English

The thousand-rayed sun did not shine, the fire did not blaze, lakes and rivers and oceans were shaken.

हिन्दी अर्थ

काज्चनं चायसं चैव सुखं दुःखं तथैव च जीवितं मरणं चैव ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा

English

Vasava rained water, flavoured and fragrant, and the pure wind blew bearing divine scent.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथेन्द्रियाणि मनसा संयन्तव्यानि भिक्षुणा

English

He saw two incomparable divine peaks born of the Himalaya and Meru, joined, white and yellow, two lovely ones of gold and silver,

हिन्दी अर्थ

यच्चान्यदपि वेत्तव्यं तत्त्वतो वेद तद् भवान् इनके अतिरिक्त भी जो कुछ जानने योग्य तत्त्व है, उसे आप ठीक-ठीक जानते हैं

English

a hundred yojanas wide, across and upward, Bharata, lovely, standing toward the northern quarter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्रासीन: शुकस्तात मोक्षमेवान्वचिन्तयत्

English

emotions that appertain to worldly objects. Darkness means anger, lust, and such other mischievous

हिन्दी अर्थ

त॑ मुहूर्तादिवागम्य राज्ञो मन्‍्त्री कृताउ्जलि: तत्रान्तःपुरसम्बद्धं महच्चैत्ररथोपमम्

English

clear. The identity of the Understanding or intelligence with the senses and the mind may be allowed so far as the action of the three qualities in leading all of them to worldly attachments is concerned. But what is meant by the identity of the Understanding with all the objects it comprehends? Does Bhishma preach Idealism here? If nothing exists except as it exists in the Understanding, then, of course, with the extinction of the Understanding, all things would come to an end.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुकं प्रावेशयन्मन्त्री प्रमदावनमुत्तमम्

English

perceptions as only particular modifications of the mind. They denied the objective existence of the

हिन्दी अर्थ

त॑ चारुवेषा: सुश्रोण्यस्तरुण्य: प्रियदर्शना: संलापोल्लापकुशला नृत्यगीतविशारदा:

English

If Nilakantha be right, K.P. Singha must be wrong. Generally, however, it is the known incapacity of the ocean to transgress its continents that supplies poets with illustrations. Here, however, possibly, the rarity of the phenomenon, viz., the ocean's transgressing its continents, is used to illustrate the rare fact of the intelligence, succeeding by yoga power, in transcending the attributes of Rajas, Tamas and Sattwa.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पाद्यादीनि प्रतिग्राह्ू पूजया परयार्चयन्

English

that cause, which, as stated here, is Passion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्य भुक्तवतस्तात तदन्तःपुरकाननम् क्रीडन्त्यश्व हसन्त्यश्न गायन्त्यश्वापिता: शुभम्

English

soul the being to whom the mind, the senses, etc., all belong. Could the idea of the inactive and unsinning Soul have arisen from observation of the moral principle of Conscience which discriminates between right and wrong, and acts, therefore, as an impartial judge, or watches everything like an uninterested spectator? European moralists generally attribute two other functions to the Conscience, viz., impelling us to do the right and avoid the wrong, and approving when right is done and wrong avoided. But these functions may easily be attributed to some other principle. At any rate, when the question is one of nomenclature only, the last two functions may be taken away and the word Soul

हिन्दी अर्थ

आरणेयस्तु शुद्धात्मा नि:संदेह: स्वकर्मकृत्

English

Then, going above lovely Mandakini, with its flowering trees and groves, righteous-souled Shuka saw her.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्मै शय्यासन दिव्यं देवह रत्नभूषितम् पादशौचं तु कृत्वैव शुक: संध्यामुपास्य च

English

In her troops of apsarases, delighted, played and bathed, formless, in empty shapes, and unclothed they saw Shuka.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूर्वरात्रे तु तत्रासौ भूत्वा ध्यानपरायण:

English

Knowing him to be going on, his father, full of affection, took the highest path and followed behind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततो मुहूर्तादुत्थाय कृत्वा शौचमनन्तरम् तां च रात्रि नृपकुले वर्तयामास भारत

English

But Shuka, going above the wind, making his way through the sky, showing his power, then became all beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिरसा चार्घ्यमादाय गुरुपुत्रं समभ्यगात् स्पर्द्धयास्तरणसंस्तीर्ण सर्वतो भद्रमृद्धिमत्

English

Vyasa of great austerity rose and, in the twinkling of an eye, came to the place of Shuka's fall along the foremost path of great yoga.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रददौ गुरुपुत्राय शुकाय परमार्चितम्

English

He saw the mountain peak split in two where Shuka had gone; the sages told him his son's deed then.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पाद्य॑ निवेद्य प्रथममर्घ्य गां च न्यवेदयत् उन्हें एक गौ प्रदान की

English

Then by his father himself, with a long recitation, in a loud voice, he was cried to, "Shuka!", making the three worlds resound.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रतिगृहा तु तां पूजां जनकाद् द्विजसत्तम:

English

Shuka, having become all-pervading, the self of all, facing all sides, righteous-souled, replied "Bho!", making the sound resound.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पर्यपृच्छन्महातेजा राज्ञ: कुशलमव्ययम् अनुशिष्टस्तु तेनासौ निषसाद सहानुग:

English

Then uttering only the one-syllable cry "Bho!", the whole world, moving and unmoving, loudly echoed it back.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किमागमनमित्येवं पर्यपृच्छत पार्थिव:

English

From then till today, sounds uttered separately in mountain caves and slopes answer for Shuka.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विदेहराजो याज्यो मे जनको नाम विश्रुत: तन्मे धर्मभृतां श्रेष्ठ यथावद् वक्तुमहसि

English

Having shown his power and vanished, Shuka then, abandoning the qualities of sound and the rest, reached the supreme state.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लिये आया हूँ। आप मेरे प्रश्नोंका यथावत् उत्तर दें

English

Seeing the greatness of his son of boundless splendour, he sat on the mountain slope, thinking only of his son.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथं च मोक्ष: प्राप्तव्यो ज्ञानेन तपसाथवा ज्ञानसे अथवा तपस्यासे किस साधनसे प्राप्त किया जा सकता है?

English

Then on the bank of Mandakini the troops of apsarases playing, coming upon that sage, were all bewildered and senseless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृतोपनयनस्तात भवेद् वेदपरायण:

English

Some hid in the water, some went to thickets, some took up garments, seeing that best of sages.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तानेवाग्नीन् यथाशास्त्रमर्चयन्नतिथिप्रिय:

English

Realising their freedom and his own attachment, the sage was pleased and also ashamed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्दन्दो वीतरागात्मा ब्रह्माश्रमपदे वसेत् किमवश्यं निवस्तव्यमाश्रमेषु भवेत् त्रिषु

English

Surrounded by gods and gandharvas, honoured by troops of great sages, the blessed Shankara, bearing the Pinaka in hand, came to him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लिये शेष तीन आश्रमोंमें रहना आवश्यक है?

English

Mahadeva then spoke these soothing words to Krishna Dvaipayana, tormented with grief for his son:

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथा वेदार्थतत्त्वेन ब्रूहि मे त्वं जनाधिप वास्तविक सिद्धान्तके अनुसार क्या करना उचित है? यह आप मुझे बताइये

English

"You chose from me of old a son equal in power to fire, earth, water, wind and space.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न विना गुरुसम्बन्ध॑ ज्ञानस्याधिगम: स्मृत:

English

Such was he born, gathered by your austerity and by my power, pure, made of the splendour of Brahman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रकार सदगुरुसे सम्बन्ध हुए बिना ज्ञानकी प्राप्ति नहीं हो सकती विज्ञाय कृतकृत्यस्तु तीर्णस्तदुभयं त्यजेत्

English

He has attained the supreme goal, hard to reach even for gods with unmastered senses; brahmana sage, why do you grieve for him?

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूर्वराचरितो धर्मश्नातुराश्रम्यसंकट:

English

As long as the mountains stand and as long as the oceans stand, so long will your fame, with your son, be imperishable.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आश्रमोंसहित वर्णधर्मोका पालन करते थे हित्वा शुभाशुभं॑ कर्म मोक्षो नामेह लभ्यते

English

By my grace, great sage, you will always see in this world a shadow like your son, never leaving you on any side."

हिन्दी अर्थ

आसक्तिका परित्याग करनेसे यहाँ मोक्षकी प्राप्ति होती है

English

Consoled by the blessed Rudra himself, Bharata, the sage returned seeing the shadow, with supreme joy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्रिष्वाश्रमेषु को न्वर्थो भवेत् परमभीप्सत: सम्पश्यन्नोपलिप्येत जले वारिचरो यथा

English

Thus, bull of the Bharatas, I have told you at length the birth and goal of Shuka, which you asked me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मोक्षशास्त्रके ज्ञाता द्विज सदा याद रखते हैं स्वयं च शक्‍्यते द्रष्टं सुसमाहितचेतसा

English

The divine sage Narada told me this of old, O king, and the great yogi Vyasa too, at every step of their talks.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्न नेच्छति न दवेष्टि ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा

English

He who bears this holy Itihasa, joined with the dharma and purpose of liberation, intent on peace, would reach the supreme goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गुरोस्तव प्रसादेन तव चैवोपशिक्षया

English

applied to indicate the Conscience as the faculty of discrimination only.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मदगुभि: खग्जरीटैश्न विचित्रैर्जीवजीवकै: चत्वारो लोकपालाश्ष देवा: सर्षिगणास्तथा

English

[Yudhishthira said:] Whence for him is the fixed heaven, whence the supreme highest good? By what rite should one offer to the gods and likewise to the ancestors?

हिन्दी अर्थ

भगवान् पावकस्तत्र स्वयं तिष्ठति वीर्यवान्

English

And what goal would a freed one reach, and what is the nature of liberation? One gone to heaven, what should he do, so as not to fall from heaven?

हिन्दी अर्थ

मुझे तुम्हारा कौन-सा प्रिय कार्य करना है?” पुन: प्राउजलयो भूत्वा प्रणम्य शिरसा गुरुम्

English

Who is the god of the gods and the father of the fathers, and what is higher than that? Tell me, grandfather.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथा हि कनकं शुद्ध तापच्छेदनिकर्षणै:

English

[Bhishma said:] You ask me, sinless one, a hidden question, one who knows questions; it cannot be answered by reasoning even in hundreds of years.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न नियोज्याक्ष व: शिष्या अनियोगे महाभये सर्वस्तरतु दुर्गाणि सर्वो भद्राणि पश्यतु

English

Except by the grace of a god, king, or by the tradition of knowledge; this account is deep and must be explained, slayer of foes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वेदस्याध्ययनं होदं तच्च कार्य महत् स्मृतम्

English

On this they recount this ancient Itihasa, the conversation of Narada and the sage Narayana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कार्य माना गया है। इसे अवश्य करना चाहिए यश्चाधर्मेण विब्रूयाद् यश्चारर्मेण मृच्छति

English

For Narayana, the self of all, the eternal, fourfold in form, was born as Dharma's son; so my father told me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपकुर्याच्च शिष्याणामेतच्च हृदि वो भवेत्

English

In the Krita age, great king, long ago in the Svayambhuva interval, Nara and Narayana, and Hari and Krishna.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्ञानं दिव्यं ममापीदं तेनासि विदितो मम आपकी स्थितिको ठीक-ठीक समझ गया हूँ

English

(darkness). What is meant by this verse is that such a person transcends the qualities instead of the qualities transcending him and his acts.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अधिकं तव चैश्वर्य तच्च त्वं नावबुध्यसे

English

That vehicle has eight wheels, charming, joined with beings; there those two first lords of the world, lean, with veins showing,

हिन्दी अर्थ

इस बातका पता नहीं है उत्पन्ने चापि विज्ञाने नाधिगच्छति तां गतिम्

English

hard to behold even for the gods by austerity and splendour; he whom they favour deserves to see the two gods.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विमुच्य हृदयग्रन्थीनासादयति तां गतिम्

English

Surely, urged by the heart's desire with their consent, Narada fell from the peak of the great mountain Meru onto Gandhamadana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्यवसायादूते ब्रह्मुन्नासादयति तत्परम् परमात्मभावको नहीं प्राप्त होता है

English

A very great being, he roamed all the worlds; swift, he came, O king, to that place, the hermitage at Badari.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नौत्सुक्यं नृत्यगीतेषु न राग उपजायते

English

At the time of their daily rites curiosity arose in him: "This is the whole abode in which the worlds are established.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आस्थितं परमं मार्गमक्षयं तमनामयम् तस्मिन् वै वर्तसे ब्रह्मन् किमन्यत् परिपृच्छसि

English

Always asuras, gandharvas, sages and kinnaras, lickers of the tongue... this one form was born first and then fourfold.

हिन्दी अर्थ

षड्विंशत्यधिकत्रिशततमोध्याय:

English

The great line of Dharma's family has been increased by these. Ah, today Dharma is favoured here by these gods, by Nara and Narayana, and by Krishna Hari.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शैशिरं गिरिमुद्दिश्य सधर्मा मातरिश्वन: हिमवन्तमियादू् द्रष्टू सिद्धचारणसेवितम्

English

There Krishna and Hari, for some other reason, stand foremost in dharma and established in austerity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किन्नराणां सहसैश्व भूड़जैस्तथैव च

English

These two are the supreme abode; what is their daily rite? They are fathers of all beings and glorious deities; which deity do they worship, or which ancestors, these two of great mind?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋषिगण सम्पूर्ण जगत॒के हितकी कामनासे वहाँ सदा आते रहते हैं

English

Thus reflecting in his mind with devotion to Narayana, he suddenly appeared near the two gods.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विष्णुना यत्र पुत्रार्थे तपस्तप्तं महात्मना शक्तिन््यस्ता क्षितितले त्रैलोक्यमवमन्य वै

English

When the offerings to gods and ancestors had been made, he was looked upon by them and duly honoured as the scripture prescribes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

योअन्योस्ति मत्तो5भ्यधिको विप्रा यस्याधिकं प्रिया:

English

Seeing that great, unprecedented marvel of extended rites, the blessed sage Narada sat down, greatly pleased.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सोभ्युद्धरत् त्विमां शक्तिमथवा कम्पयत्विति अथ देवगणं सर्व सम्भ्रान्तेन्द्रियमानसम्

English

Looking at Narayana with a calm inner self, he bowed to Mahadeva and spoke these words:

हिन्दी अर्थ

किं त्वत्र सुकृतं कार्य भवेदिति विचिन्तयन्

English

"You are sung in the Vedas with the Puranas, with their limbs and subsidiary limbs, unborn, eternal, the creator, held to be the unsurpassed nectar; in you, all this world, past and future, is established.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सम्प्रगृह्म विशुद्धात्मा शक्ति प्रज्वलितां तदा काननोंसहित सारी पृथ्वी काँप उठी

English

All four stages of life, god, rooted in the householder's life, worship you day after day, standing in many forms.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्कन्दका तिरस्कार नहीं होने दिया। उन्हें अपमानसे बचा लिया

English

You are father and mother of all the world, its eternal teacher; whom, then, do you worship today as god, whom as father? We do not know."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तां कम्पयित्वा भगवान् प्रह्नलादमिदमब्रवीत् कार्य दूसरा कोई नहीं कर सकेगा”

English

[The Blessed One said:] This should not be spoken, yet it is to be told, the eternal secret of the self; to you, Brahmana, being devoted, I shall tell it as it is.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सोअमृष्यमाणस्तद्वाक्यं समुद्धरणनिश्चित:

English

That which is subtle, unknowable, unmanifest, unmoving, fixed, free of senses, of objects of the senses and of all beings,

हिन्दी अर्थ

पावकेन परिक्षिप्तं दीप्पता यस्य चाश्रमम् न तत्र शक्यते गन्तुं यक्षराक्षसदानवै:

English

that is the inner self of beings, called the knower of the field; beyond the three qualities, it is conceived as the person; from it the unmanifest was born, threefold in quality, best of the twice-born.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दिव्यं वर्षमहस्र हि पादेनैकेन तिकछत: ऐन्द्रीं तु दिशभास्थाय शैलराजस्य धीमतः

English

The unmanifest standing in manifest being, that imperishable nature, know that as the womb of us two, which is both being and non-being; for it is worshipped by us two in the rites for gods and ancestors.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वेदानध्यापयामास व्यास: शिष्यान् महामति:

English

There is no other beyond it, father, god or twice-born; it is to be known as the self of us two; therefore we worship it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जैमिनिं च महाप्राज्ञं पैलं चापि तपस्विनम् तत्राश्रमपदं रम्यं ददर्श पितुरुत्तमम्

English

By it, Brahmana, this limit that supports the world was laid down: that the rites for gods and ancestors are to be done; such is its command.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पिताके उस रमणीय एवं उत्तम आश्रमको देखा

English

Brahma, Sthanu, Manu, Daksha, Bhrigu, Dharma, Tapas, Dama, Marichi, Angiras, Atri, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu,

हिन्दी अर्थ

योगयुक्त महात्मानं यथा बाणं गुणच्युतम् यथोपजोष॑ तैश्वापि समागच्छन्महामुनि:

English

Vasishtha, Parameshthi, Vivasvan and Soma, and Kardama as well, and Krodha and Vikrita, who are named,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुको जनकराजेन संवादं प्रीतमानस:

English

twenty-one arose, who are remembered as the Prajapatis; they worship the eternal limit of that god.

हिन्दी अर्थ

का-सारा वृत्तान्त अपने पितासे कह सुनाया उवास हिमवत्पृष्ठे पाराशर्यो महामुनि:

English

Knowing in truth the rites for gods and ancestors as his, the best of the twice-born also know what has come to them by themselves.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हुए हिमालयके शिखरपर ही रहने लगे

English

Whatever embodied beings even in heaven bow to him, by his grace go to the goal whose fruit he has ordained.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अथोचुस्ते तदा व्यासं शिष्या: प्राज्जलयो गुरुम् एकं त्विदानीमिच्छामो गुरुणाग्रहं कृतम्

English

Those who are free of the seventeen qualities and of action, having given up the fifteen parts, are certainly liberated.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उच्यतामिति तद् वत्सा यद् वः कार्य प्रियं मया

English

The goal of the freed, Brahmana, is conceived as the knower of the field; he is said to be all-pervading and without qualities.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिष्य प्रसिद्ध न हो। यहाँ हमलोगोंपर इतनी ही कृपा कीजिये

English

He is seen by the yoga of knowledge, and we two came forth from him; thus knowing, we worship that eternal self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इह वेदा: प्रतिष्ठेरन्नेष न: कांक्षितो वर: पराशरात्मजो धीमान् परलोकार्थचिन्तक:

English

The Vedas and the stages of life, standing in many bodies, worship that primal one with devotion, and he gives them their goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणाय सदा देयं ब्रह्म शुश्रूषवे तथा

English

But those in the world who are formed by him and stand in single-minded devotion have this in addition: that they enter him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भवन्तो बहुला: सन्तु वेदो विस्तार्यतामयम् एते शिष्यगुणा: सर्वे विज्ञातव्या यथार्थत:

English

Thus this hidden teaching has been told to you, Narada, with devotion and love, brahmana sage, and heard by you with devotion to us.