Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

अविनाशी हैं, मैं इनकी व्याख्या आरम्भ करता हूँ शृणुष्वैकमना वत्स गद्दरं होतदन्तरम्

English

" YUDHISHTHIRA SAID, 'THOU hast, O grandsire, discoursed upon the auspicious duties (of person in distress) connected with the duties of kings. It behoveth thee now, O king, to tell me those foremost of duties which belong to those who lead the (four) modes of life.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्षेत्रज्ञ तं विजानीयान्नित्यं योगजितात्मकम्

English

[Kapila said:] "This body acts so, and in the Veda it makes a form; the brahmana whose body has been purified by rites becomes a vessel.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋषिस्तत्पूजयन् वाक्यं पुत्रस्यामिततेजस: अकामद्वेषसंयुक्त: स परत्र विधीयते

English

I tell you of him who pursues the endless by action: without tradition, without legend, direct, with the world as witness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स एवं गुरवे प्रीतिमुपहत्य यथाबलम्

English

Those who spread out sacrifices as "dharma" alone, without hope, renouncing what has arisen, ungreedy, as if earned by compassion and freedom from envy: this is the road of wealth, in giving at holy places.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और पशुहिंसा न करे, क्योंकि यह अनर्थमूलक है गृहस्थ पुरुष दिनमें कभी न सोये। रातके पहले और पिछले भागमें भी नींद न ले

English

Not depending on action as a womb, sinful deeds at times, perfected by mental intention, of purified settled knowledge,

हिन्दी अर्थ

नास्यानश्रन् गृहे विप्रो वसेत् कश्चिदपूजित:

English

not angry, not envious, without ego or malice, devoted to knowledge, thrice-white, intent on the good of all beings:

हिन्दी अर्थ

आदर-सत्कार और भोजन पाये बिना न रह जाय वेदविद्याव्रतस्नाता: श्रोत्रिया वेदपारगा:

English

householders were mostly such, not departing from their own duties, and kings joined in this way, and brahmanas by rule.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेषां हव्यं च कव्यं चाप्यर्हणार्थ विधीयते

English

Equal, endowed with honesty, content, resolved in knowledge, with dharma visible, pure, faithful toward higher and lower,

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपविद्धानग्निहोत्रस्य गुरोर्वालीककारिण: तथैवापचमाने भ्य: प्रदेयं गृहमेधिना

English

with selves formed before, who had duly practised their vows, they practised dharma even in hardship and gathered in difficult places.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्याका तारतम्यविषयक प्रश्न मेरे लिये क्लेशदायक है

English

"Bhishma said, 'Religion hath many doors. The observance of (the duties prescribed by) religion can never be futile. Duties have been laid down with respect to every mode of life. (The fruits of those duties are invisible, being attainable in the next world.) The fruits, however, of Penance directed towards the soul are obtainable in this world, l Whatever be the object to which one devotes oneself, that object, O Bharata, and nothing else, appears to one as the highest of acquisitions fraught with the greatest of blessings. When one reflects properly (one's heart being purified by such reflection), one comes to know that the things of this world are as valueless as straw. Without doubt, one is then freed from attachment in respect of those things. When the world, O Yudhishthira, which is full of defects, is so constituted, every man of intelligence should strive for the attainment of the emancipation of his soul.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रवृत्तिलक्षणो धर्मो निवृत्ती च सुभाषित: तस्मात् कर्म न कुर्वन्ति यतय: पारदर्शिन:

English

"Yudhishthira said, 'Tell me, O grandsire, by what frame of soul should one kill one's grief when one loses one's wealth, or when one's wife, or son, or sire, dies.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्यया जायते नित्यमव्यक्त हाव्ययात्मकम्

English

"Bhishma said, 'When one's wealth is lost, or one's wife or son or sire is dead, one certainly says to oneself 'Alas, this is a great sorrow!' But then one should, by the aid of reflection, seek to kill that sorrow. In this connection is cited the old story of the speech that a regenerate friend of his, coming to Senajit's court, made to that king. Beholding the monarch agitated with grief and burning with sorrow on account of the death of his son, the

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेन ते देहजालानि रमयन्त उपासते आनन्द मानकर उनका सेवन करते हैं

English

Since such were the brahmanas of old, carriers of sacrifice, aged in the three Vedas, pure, well-conducted and renowned, wise, sacrificing day by day, without hope or bonds,

हिन्दी अर्थ

न ते कर्म प्रशंसन्ति कूपं नद्यां पिबन्निव

English

for them sacrifices, Vedas and deeds were as the tradition, as the seasons, as intentions according to their vows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्यया तदवाप्रोति यत्र गत्वा न शोचति न पुनर्जयते यत्र यत्र गत्वा न वर्तते

English

For those who had shed desire and anger, by nature trained in self, honest, constant in calm, standing in their own duties, all was endless: so we have the eternal scripture.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समा: सर्वत्र मैत्राश्न सर्वभूतहिते रता:

English

For those of undismayed goodness, doers of hard conduct, covered by their own deeds, the dreadfulness of austerity came about.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मानते हैं और समस्त प्राणियोंके हितमें तत्पर रहते हैं विद्धि चन्द्रमसं दर्शे सूक्ष्म्या कलया स्थितम्

English

That good conduct, wonderful, ancient, eternal and firm, was indicated in the dharmas for those unable to practise it at all.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नवजं शशिन दृष्टवा वक्रतन्तुमिवाम्बरे

English

Dharma without calamity, conduct, heedfulness and non-defeat, among all classes: among them there was no transgression.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मूर्तिमानिति तं विद्धि तात कर्मगुणात्मकम् चन्द्रमाके समान वृद्धि और हासका भागी होनेवाला समझो

English

Those bulls among men took refuge in one four-footed dharma; the good, having duly reached it, go to the highest goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चित्तको वशमें किया है, उस आत्मतत्त्वको तुम सहैव क्षेत्रज्ष समझो जीवमात्मगुणं विद्यादात्मानं परमात्मन:

English

Some, leaving their homes, resorted to the forest; others, resorting to the home alone; and others, celibate students.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्ध्यैश्वर्यातिसगोंयं प्रधानश्वात्मन: श्रुतम्

English

Brahmanas know this fourfold dharma of stages; the endless seat of Brahman is the settled meaning of the word brahmana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मैंने पहले सुन लिया है यया सन्त: प्रवर्तन्ते तदिच्छाम्यनुवर्तितुम्

English

Therefore such brahmanas of old, who practised dharma, are seen in heaven as twice-born become lights.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथमेतद् विजानीयां तच्च व्याख्यातुमरहसि

English

Like stars in their places, many hosts of stars, they have reached the endless through contentment: so the Vedic.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समझू? जिससे इनका विरोध हट जाय। आप इस विषयकी व्याख्या करें कृत्वा बुद्धि विमुक्तात्मा द्रक्ष्याम्पात्मानमव्ययम्

English

If such come back to the world, in a womb again, they are never stained by sinful deeds, not by action as a womb.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभिमान त्यागकर अपने अविनाशीस्वरूप परमात्माका दर्शन करूँगा

English

One so joined may be a brahmana; another may be a brahmana in name; action alone, good or bad, they say, belongs to man.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एषा पूर्वतरै: सद्धिराचीर्णा परमर्षिभि: पुण्यायतनचारी च भूतानामविहिंसक:

English

So, for those whose astringency is ripened, by endless learning, all was endless: so we have the eternal scripture.

हिन्दी अर्थ

काले प्राप्ते चरन् भैक्ष्यं कल्पते ब्रह्म भूयसे

English

For them, craving gone, cleansed, of good self, the fourth, the dharma of the Upanishads, is held common.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संन्यासी ब्रह्मभावको प्राप्त होनेमें समर्थ होता है अरण्ये विचरैकाकी येन केनचिदाशित:

English

It is ever practised by the perfected brahmanas of controlled self, rooted in contentment, of the nature of renunciation, called based on knowledge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रमाणे वाप्रमाणे च विरुद्धे शास्त्रता कुत:

English

The ascetic's eternal dharma, whose goal is liberation, is practised as common or sole according to strength.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एतामारुहा निःश्रेणीं ब्रह्मलोके महीयते

English

As one goes and goes, the weak sinks in it; seeking the seat of Brahman, the pure one is freed from the world."

हिन्दी अर्थ

गुरौ वा गुरुपुत्रे वा वसेद् धर्मार्थकोविद: यच्च शिष्येण कर्तव्यं कार्य दासेन वा पुन:

English

[Syumarashmi said:] "Of those who enjoy, those who give, who sacrifice, who study, those who by means gained by dharma, or those who rely on renunciation,

हिन्दी अर्थ

किंकर: सर्वकारी स्यात् सर्वकर्मसु कोविद:

English

which of these, after death, is the best conqueror of heaven? Tell me that, brahmana, as I ask truly."

हिन्दी अर्थ

रहे और सभी कर्मोके सम्पादनमें कुशल हो दक्षिणो5नपवादी स्यादाहूतो गुरुमाश्रयेत्

English

[Kapila said:] "All good possessions and the good fortunes that arise from virtue are not the happiness reached by renunciation; you too see this."

हिन्दी अर्थ

कोई कलंक न लगावे। गुरुके बुलानेपर झट उनकी सेवामें उपस्थित हो जाय

English

[Syumarashmi said:] "You are devoted to knowledge, we householders resolved on action; of all stages the end is said to be one."

हिन्दी अर्थ

चक्षुषा गुरुमव्यग्रो निरीक्षेत जितेन्द्रिय: नातिष्ठति तथा55सीत नासुप्ते प्रस्वपेत च

English

In oneness and in separateness no other difference is told; let the blessed one tell me that rightly and properly."

हिन्दी अर्थ

इदं करिष्ये भगवन्निदं चापि कृतं मया

English

[Kapila said:] "Actions are the ripening of the body, but knowledge is the highest goal; when astringency is ripened, vomiting does not remain in the knowledge of taste.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पढ़ावें। मैंने अमुक काम पूरा कर लिया है और यह अमुक कार्य अभी करूँगा इति सर्वमनुज्ञाप्य निवेद्य च यथाविधि

English

Non-cruelty, forbearance, peace, non-violence, truth, honesty, non-malice, no pride, modesty, patience and self-control:

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्मका निश्चय है

English

these are the paths of Brahman; by them one reaches the supreme; the learned man should understand by mind the settled rule of action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ये केचिद् विस्तरेणोक्ता नियमा ब्रह्मचारिण: वह पालन करे तथा सदा गुरुके समीप ही रहे

English

The goal which brahmanas, calm on every side, pure, resolved in knowledge, content, reach: they call it the highest goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वेदव्रतोपवासेन चतुर्थे चायुषो गते गुरवे दक्षिणां दत्वा समावर्त्तेद्ू यथाविधि

English

Having known the Vedas and what is to be known, as it stands, thus they call a Veda-knower; another is a mere seed-keeper.

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्वितीयमायुषो भागं गृहमेधी भवेद् व्रती

English

The Veda-knowers know all; all is established in the Veda; for in the Veda is the end of everything, of whatever is and is not."

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्मलब्धैर्युतो दारैरग्नीनाहृत्य सुव्रत: कुसूलधान्य: प्रथम: कुम्भधान्यस्त्वनन्तरम्

English

This alone is the end of all, whatever is and is not; for one who knows its end, middle, being and non-being.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेषां पर: परो ज्यायान् धर्मतो धर्मजित्तम:

English

"Total renunciation," "peace," "contentment": so it is settled; the good here is established in liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्वाभ्यामेकश्षतुर्थस्तु ब्रह्मसत्रे व्यवस्थित: (वेदाध्ययन) करना उचित है

English

The right, the true, the known and the knowable, the self of all, the moving and the unmoving, all happiness, the auspicious and the highest, Brahman, the unmanifest, the origin and the imperishable:

हिन्दी अर्थ

नात्मार्थे पाचयेदन्नं न वृथा घातयेत् पशून्

English

radiance, forbearance, peace, freedom from disease, the auspicious, space likewise eternal and firm: it is reached by these words with the eyes of intellect; honour to that Brahman, to the brahmana."