Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्लाघधिने श्लाघनीयाय प्रशान्ताय तपस्विने

English

succeeds in withdrawing all his desires like a tortoise withdrawing all its limbs, then his soul, which is self-luminous, succeeds in looking into itself. 2 That object, whatever it may be, in respect of which the idea of meum is cherished, becomes a source of grief and heart-burning. 3 When a person himself feels no fear, and is feared by no one, when he cherishes no desire and no aversion, he is then said to attain to the state of Brahma. Casting off both truth and falsehood, grief and joy, fear and courage, the agreeable and the disagreeable, thou mayst become of tranquil soul. When a person abstains from doing wrong to any creature, in thought, word, or deed, he is then said to attain to a state of Brahma. True happiness is his who can cast off that thirst which is incapable of being cast off by the misguided, which does not decay with decrepitude, and which is regarded as a fatal disease. In this connection, O king, are heard

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राणियोंमें उनके कर्मानुसार ही न्यूनाधिकरूपमें उन भूतोंका समावेश किया है इन्द्रियाणि गुणा: केचित् कथं तानुपलक्षयेत्

English

[Bhishma said:] "You know all dharmas; you ask about the settled matter; hear liberation with disgust, sin and dharma from the root.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवमेवेन्द्रियग्रामं बुद्धिः सृष्टवा नियच्छति

English

For the knowledge of the five, wish first arises; having attained them, desire or aversion is born, bull of the Bharatas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इन्द्रियोंको विषयोंकी ओर फैलाकर फिर उन्हें वहाँसे हटा लेती है एतस्मिन्नेव कृत्ये तु वर्तते बुद्धिरुत्तमा

English

Then he strives for it and undertakes action again, and wishes to practise the wished-for forms and scents.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मन:षष्ठानि सर्वाणि बुद्धयभावे कुतो गुणा:

English

Then attachment arises, and aversion after it; then greed arises, and delusion after it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सप्तमीं बुद्धिमेवाहु: क्षेत्रज्ञ पुनरष्टमम् क्षेत्रज्म बताया गया है

English

For one overcome by greed and delusion and joined with attachment and aversion, understanding does not arise in dharma, and he does dharma by pretext.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्धिरध्यवसानाय साक्षी क्षेत्रज्ञ उच्चते

English

As he practises dharma by pretext, the pretext of wealth too pleases him, as wealth is gained by pretext, delight of the Kurus.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समा: सर्वेषु भूतेषु तान् गुणानुपलक्षयेत् प्रशान्तमिव संशुद्ध॑ सत्त्वं तदुपधारयेत्

English

There he sets his mind, then wishes to do sin, though restrained by friends and by the learned, Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रवृत्त रज इत्येवं तत्र चाप्युपलक्षयेत्

English

He gives a reply joined with reasoning and fitted by rule; his threefold adharma grows, born of attachment and delusion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रहस्यधर्म वक्तव्यं नान्यस्मै तु कथंचन समझे कि इस सारे धनकी अपेक्षा यह ज्ञान ही श्रेष्ठ है

English

the verses sung by Pingala about the manner in which she had acquired eternal merit even at a time that had been very unfavourable. A fallen woman of the name of Pingala, having repaired to the place of assignation, was denied the company of her lover through an accident. At that time of great misery, she succeeded in acquiring tranquillity of soul.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत् तेरहं सम्प्रवक्ष्यामि यन्मां त्वं परिपृच्छसि

English

"Pingala said, Alas, I have for many long years lived, all the while overcome by frenzy, by the side of that Dear Self in whom there is nothing but tranquillity. Death has been at my door. Before this, I did not, however approach that Essence of Purity. I shall cover this house of one column and nine doors (by means of true Knowledge), l What woman is there that regards that Supreme Soul as her dear lord, even when He comes near? 2 I am now awake. I have been roused from the sleep of ignorance. I am no longer influenced by desire. Human lovers, who are really the embodied forms of hell, shall no longer deceive me by approaching me lustfully. Evil produces good through the destiny or the acts of a former life. Roused (from the sleep of ignorance), I have cast off all desire for worldly objects. I have acquired a complete mastery over my senses. One freed from desire and hope sleeps in felicity. Freedom from every hope and desire is felicity. Having driven off desire and hope, Pingala sleeps in felicity.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुत्र कि हि कथयामि ते पुन: षट्चत्वारिंशदधिकशततमो ध्याय:

English

"Bhishma continued, 'Convinced with these and other words uttered by the learned Brahmana, king Senajit (casting off his grief), experienced delight and became very happy.'"

हिन्दी अर्थ

यदशध्यात्मं यथा वेद भगवनृषिसत्तम

English

of Religion or the aggregate of duties. At other times it simply means a duty or the course of duties prescribed for a particular situation. Tapah is generally rendered penance. Here, however, it has a direct reference to sravana (hearing), manana (contemplation), and nididhyasana (abstraction of the soul from everything else for absolute concentration). The Grammar of the second half of the first line is Sati apretya etc., Sat being that which is real, hence, the Soul, or the Supreme Soul, of which every individual Soul is only a portion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपदेश दीजिये। अध्यात्म क्या है और उसे मैं कैसे जानूँगा? जाती है, उसका परिचय मैं तुम्हें दे रहा हूँ; तुम अध्यात्मकी यह व्याख्या सुनो

English

For him, by good conduct and practice, wisdom grows; he delights in dharma and lives by dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

महाभूतानि भूतानां सागरस्योर्मयो यथा

English

Then he sets his mind on wealth gained by dharma, and waters the very root where he sees virtues.

हिन्दी अर्थ

महाभूत प्राणियोंके शरीरके रूपमें जन्म ग्रहण करते और विलीन होते रहते हैं तद्वधन्महान्ति भूतानि यवीय:सु विकुर्वते

English

So he becomes righteous-souled and gains a good friend; and by gain of friends and wealth he rejoices here and hereafter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सारे महाभूत छोटे-छोटे शरीरोंमें विकृत होते--उत्पन्न और विलीन होते रहते हैं

English

In sound, touch, form, taste and smell, Bharata, a creature gains mastery; this is known as the fruit of dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्गे च प्रलये चैव तस्मिन् निर्दिश्यते तथा ही सबकी उत्पत्ति होती है और प्रलयके समय उन्हींमें सबका लय बताया जाता है

English

Having gained the fruit of dharma he is not satisfied, Yudhishthira; unsatisfied, he takes up disgust with the eye of knowledge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अकरोत् तात वैषम्यं यस्मिन् यदनुपश्यति

English

When the eye of wisdom sees only fault in desire, then he is detached from desires, and does not abandon dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शृणु तत् त्वमिहैकाग्रो यथातत्त्वं यथा च तत्

English

Seeing the world as perishable, he strives for total renunciation; then he strives for liberation, not by the wrong means but the right.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राणश्रेष्ठा तथा स्पर्श एते वायुगुणास्त्रय: प्राण, चेष्टा तथा स्पर्श--ये तीनों वायुके गुण (कार्य) हैं

English

Slowly he takes up disgust and gives up sinful action; he becomes righteous-souled and gains the highest liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रसो5थ रसन॑ स्नेहो गुणास्त्वेते त्रयोडम्भस:

English

This has been told you, dear, what you ask: sin, dharma, liberation and disgust, Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आकाश प्रभव: शब्दो गन्धो भूमिगुण: स्मृत: न गुणानतिवर्तन्ते गुणेभ्य: परमागता:

English

Therefore keep to dharma in every state, Yudhishthira; for those established in dharma, Kaunteya, perfection is eternal."

हिन्दी अर्थ

चाहिए कि रजोगुणकी प्रवृत्ति हो रही है अप्रतर्क्यमविज्ञेयं तमस्तदुपधार्यताम्

English

Those who derive no advantage from her have no need for showing her any affection. One should not covet what is above one's want, It has been said, that (to a thirsty or hungry or toil-worn man), a little quantity of vaccine milk is of more use than a hundred kine; a small measure of rice more useful than a hundred barns filled with grain; half a little bed is of more use than a large mansion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इन्द्रियाण्येव मेध्यानि विजेतव्यानि कृत्स्नश:

English

[Bhishma said:] "This is fitting in you, greatly wise, a skilful view, that you always seek all aims by means, sinless one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अविभागगता बुद्धिर्भावे मनसि वर्तते अन्वर्था: सम्प्रवर्तन्ते रथनेमिमरा इव

English

The thought for making ghee is not for the birth of ghee, sinless one; so in the means to dharma there is no other cause in dharmas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निश्चरद्धिर्यथायोगमुदासीनैर्यद्च्छया

English

The road to the eastern sea does not go to the western; but the way to liberation is one; hear that at length from me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अशोचचन्नप्रहृष्यन् हि नित्यं विगतमत्सर: नहीं पड़ता, हर्ष और शोक नहीं करता तथा ईर्ष्या-द्वेष आदिसे रहित रहता है

English

One should cut off anger by forbearance, desire by giving up intentions; the steadfast should cut off sleep by cultivating goodness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रवर्तमानैरनये दुष्करैरकृतात्मभि:

English

By heedfulness one should guard against fear, breath by practice of the knower of the field; wish, aversion and desire he should turn aside by steadiness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदा प्रकाशतेस्यात्मा दीपदीप्ता यथा55कृति: प्रकाशं भवते सर्व तथेदमुपधार्यताम्

English

Giddiness, delusion and whirling he should turn aside by practice; sleep and brilliance by the practice of knowledge, the knower of truth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विमुक्तात्मा तथा योगी गुणदोषैर्न लिप्यते

English

Troubles and diseases by moderate, wholesome, digestible diet; greed and delusion by contentment; objects by seeing the truth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मुक्तात्मा योगी संसारमें रहकर भी उसके गुण और दोषोंसे लिपायमान नहीं होता असज्जमान: सर्वेषु कथंचन न लिप्यते

English

He should conquer adharma by compassion, dharma by disregard; hope by foresight, wealth by giving up attachment.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कि तमोगुण प्रवृत्त हुआ है

English

him, are those who are in deep sleep. There are four stages of consciousness. These are (1) wakefulness, (2) dream, (3) dreamless or deep slumber, and (4) Turiya or absolute Samadhi (which the Yogin only can attain to).

हिन्दी अर्थ

किसी कारणवश विकसित हों, तब समझना चाहिए कि ये सात्विक गुण हैं लिज्रानि रजसस्तानि वर्तन्ते हेत्वहेतुत:

English

ones are wakefulness and sleep with dream.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तमोगुणका कार्य जानना चाहिए

English

victories in, battle and other concerns of the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सप्तचत्वारिंशदधिकद्विशततमो5ध्याय: ह्ृदयं प्रियाप्रिये वेद त्रिविधा कर्मचोदना

English

What is said here is that man who succeeds in attaining to a state of Brahma by true Samadhi or abstraction from the world, can never be touched by grief.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनसस्तु परा बुद्धिर्बुद्धेरात्मा परो मत:

English

at his own self. The meaning seems to be that he experiences a sort of double existence so that he succeeds in himself looking at his own self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बलवान माना गया है (क्योंकि वह बुद्धिको सम बनाकर स्वाधीन कर सकता है) यदा विकुरुते भावं तदा भवति सा मन:

English

the nine doors are the eyes, the ears, the nostrils, etc. etc.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शृण्वती भवति श्रोत्रं स्मृशती स्पर्श उच्यते

English

Being to be so, although He is always with them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जिप्रती भवति प्राणं बुद्धिर्विक्रियते पृथक् न सुखेन न दुःखेन कदाचिदिह युज्यते

English

With sin shaken off, full of energy, light of diet, master of senses, having brought desire and anger under control, he should wish to lead himself to the seat of Brahman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवं न दुःखसे ही; उसपर मोह छाया रहता है (यही उसका तामस भाव है)

English

Freedom from delusion, from attachment, from desire and anger, from meanness, from overflow, from agitation, steadiness:

हिन्दी अर्थ

सरितां सागरो भर्ता महावेलामिवोर्मिमान् योगमें स्थित होनेपर इन तीनों भावोंको लाँघ जाती है

English

this is the path of liberation, serene, stainless, pure; so is restraint of speech, body and mind; otherwise it is by desire."

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्य गुणवर्गेष्वसज्जत:

English

" Yudhishthira said, 'Time, which is destructive of every created thing, is passing on. 3 Tell me, O grandsire, what is that good thing which should be sought.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

संसार-सागरमें ड्ूबकर कष्ट भोगते रहते हैं--ऐसा समझो एवं यो विन्दते55त्मानं केवल ज्ञानमात्मन:

English

Knowing the aged Devala seated, Narada, best of the wise, asked about the origin and dissolution of beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आत्मतृप्त इवासीत बहुचिन्त्यमचिन्तयन्

English

"Whence was this universe made, brahmana, moving and unmoving, and into what does it go at dissolution? Tell me that."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्त्वदर्शी ज्ञानी मुनि इस धर्मको समस्त प्राणियोंके लिये सबसे श्रेष्ठ मानते हैं

English

[Asita said:] "From which Time, urged by being, creates beings, the thinkers on beings say are the five great elements.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनुगत भक्त हो, उसीके समक्ष इसका वर्णन करना चाहिए कथितानि मया पुत्र भवन्ति न भवन्ति च

English

From them Time, urged by the self, creates beings; whoever speaks of anything beyond these speaks falsehood, without doubt.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रूयात् सुतस्येह यदुक्तमेतत्

English

Know, Narada, these five as eternal, unmoving and firm, heaps of great energy, with time as sixth, by nature.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋचो यजूंसि सामानि न तेन न स वै द्विज: ऋग्वेद, यजुर्वेद एवं सामवेदका पूरा-पूरा ज्ञान प्राप्त कर ले, वही मुख्य ब्राह्मण है

English

Water, space, earth, wind and fire; beyond these elements, there is no success; doubt is gone.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नाकामो ग्रियते जातु न तेन न च वै द्विज:

English

Not by reasoning or logic would one speak falsehood, without doubt; you know them as come forth, whose heaps these are.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लक्षणोंसे सम्पन्न पुरुष ब्राह्मण नहीं है ऐसी बात नहीं, किंतु वही सच्चा ब्राह्मण है प्राप्रोति नैव ब्राह्म॒ण्यमविधानात् कथंचन

English

Those five, time, and being and non-being alone: the eight, the eternal elements of beings, their arising and passing.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सत्त्वक्षेत्रज्योरेतदन्तरं विद्धि सूक्ष्मयो: यही अन्तर समझो कि बुद्धि दृश्य है और आत्मा द्रष्टा है

English

"Bhishma said, 'In this connection, O king, is cited the old narrative of a discourse between sire and son, O Yudhishthira! A certain Brahmana. O Partha, who was devoted to the study of the Vedas, got a very intelligent son who (for this) was called Medhavin. 4 One day, the son, well conversant with the truths of the religion of Emancipation, and acquainted also with the affairs of the world, addressed his sire devoted to the study of the Vedas.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

पृथग्भूतौ प्रकृत्या तौ सम्प्रयुक्तो च सर्वदा

English

"The son said, 'What should a wise man do, O father, seeing that the period of human life is passing away so very quickly? O father, tell me

हिन्दी अर्थ

मशकोदुम्बरौ वापि सम्प्रयुक्तो यथा सह तथैव सहितावेतावन्योन्यस्मिन् प्रतिष्ठितो

English

the course of duties that one should perform, without omitting to mention the fruits. Having listened to thee, I desire to observe those duties.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

अष्टचत्वारिंशदधिकद्धिशततमो ध्याय:

English

"The sire said, 'O son, observing the Brahmacharya mode of life, one should first study the Vedas. He should then wish for children for rescuing his ancestors. Setting up his fire next, he should seek to perform the (prescribed) sacrifices according to due rites. At last, he should enter the forest for devoting himself to contemplation.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऊर्णनाभिर्यथा सूत्र सृजते तद्गुणांस्तथा एवमेके व्यवस्यन्ति निवृत्तिरिति चापरे

English

"The son said, 'When the world is thus surrounded on all sides and is thus assailed, and when such irresistible things of fatal consequences fall upon it, how can you say these words so calmly?'

हिन्दी अर्थ

उनका अस्तित्त्व नहीं रहता

English

"The sire said, How is the world assailed? What is that by which it is surrounded? What, again, are those irresistible things of fatal consequences that fall upon it? Why dost thou frighten me thus?'

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनेनैव विधानेन भवेद् गर्भशयो महान् अक्रुध्यन्नप्रद्ष्यंश्व नित्यं विगतमत्सर:

English

"The son said, 'Death is that by which the world is assailed. Decrepitude encompasses it. Those irresistible things that come and go away are the nights (that are continually lessening the period of human life). When I know that Death tarries for none (but approaches steadily towards every creature), how can I pass my time without covering myself with the garb of knowledge? l When each succeeding night, passing away lessens the allotted period of one's existence, the man of wisdom should regard the day to be fruitless. (When death is approaching steadily) who is there that would, like a fish in a shallow water, feel happy? Death comes to a man before his desires have been gratified. Death snatches away a person when he is engaged in plucking flowers and when his heart is otherwise set, like a tigress bearing

हिन्दी अर्थ

देषसे रहित हो विचरता रहे

English

First the creature perceives the objects separately by the senses; afterward it reflects by mind and then determines by intellect; he who determines all the things grasped by the senses.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनित्यं सुखमासीत अशोचंश्छिन्नसंशय: परमात्मस्वरूपमें स्थित हो जाय

English

Thought, the group of senses, mind, intellect, and the eighth: these are called the eight senses of knowledge by thinkers on the self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अवगाढा हााविद्वांसो विद्धि लोकमिमं तथा

English

Hands, feet, anus, genital and mouth as fifth: hear also these called the senses of action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समवेक्ष्य च वैषम्यं लभते शममुत्तमम्

English

The mouth is called the sense for speech and eating; the feet the sense of movement; the hands for the instrument of action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अवस्थापर विचार करता है, उसे परम उत्तम शान्ति प्राप्त होती है आत्मज्ञानं शमश्लैव पर्याप्तं तत्परायणम्

English

The anus and genital are the senses for discharge, similar in action, in the discharge of excrement and in the amorous discharge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और मुक्त हो जाते हैं

English

Strength resides in these, with speech rightly as taught; I have named all the qualities of knowledge, action and senses.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और किसीको भी प्राप्त नहीं होती ये विदुस्तदुभयं कृताकृतम्

English

When the senses cease from their own actions through weariness, then with the withdrawal of the senses man sleeps.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जानते हैं, वे शोक नहीं करते। तुम उन्हीं लोगोंको वहाँ कुशल समझो

English

If, with the senses stilled, the mind is not stilled and serves the objects, know it from the seeing of dreams.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकोनपजञ्चाशदधिकद्धिशततमो ध्याय: यो विशिष्ट श्व धर्मेभ्यस्तं भवान् प्रव्रवीतु मे

English

The sattvic, rajasic and tamasic states: they praise those joined to action, the sattvic and the others.

हिन्दी अर्थ

है तथा जो सब धर्मोंसे श्रेष्ठ है, उसका आप मुझसे वर्णन कीजिये

English

Joy, success of actions, attainment, the highest goal: memory resorts to the states that are the causes of the sattvic.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विशिष्ट सर्वधर्मेभ्यस्तमिहैकमना: शूणु सर्वतो निष्पतिष्णूनि पिता बालानिवात्मजान्

English

In one of the creatures the states that follow the rule are ever sought of the two states, and the direct approach of both.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करके उन्हें वशमें रखे

English

The senses and states are held to be seventeen qualities; the eighteenth is the embodied one, who is eternal in the body.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तज्ज्याय: सर्वधर्मेभ्य: स धर्म: पर उच्यते धर्म बताया जाता है

English

Or the qualities are all with bodies, resting in the embodied; when parted from that, they are bodiless and are not.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चिन्तन न करते हुए अपनी आत्मामें तृप्त-सा होकर निश्चिन्त और निश्चल हो जाय तदा त्वमात्मना55त्मानं पर द्रक्ष्यसि शाश्वतम्

English

Or this is a combination, the body of five elements; these, ten and eight, are the qualities of the embodied; with heat the twentieth, a combination of five elements.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उस समय तुम स्वयं ही उस सनातन परमात्माका दर्शन कर लोगे

English

The great one supports this body with the wind; for it, joined with states, the cause is in the breaking of the body.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त॑ पश्यन्ति महात्मानो ब्राह्मणा ये मनीषिण: अन्यो ह्वात्रान्तरात्मास्ति यः सर्वमनुपश्यति

English

As anything arises and goes to its fivefold state, so at the end of the destruction of merit and demerit, driven by merit and demerit, he enters a body in time, then this one born of action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दृष्टवा त्वमात्मना55त्मानं निरात्मा भव सर्ववित्

English

Leaving and leaving, he goes from body to body, having taken refuge, driven by Time, the owner of the field, as from a broken house to a house.

हिन्दी अर्थ

परां बुद्धिमवाप्येह विपाप्मा विगतज्वर: तुम यहाँ पाप और चिन्तासे रहित हो जाओ

English

There the wise of settled resolve do not grieve; but wretched men proud of their relations grieve.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सत्यतीर्थनृतक्षोभां क्रोधपड्कां सरिद्वराम्

English

He belongs to none, and none belongs to him; this one is alone ever, sharing pleasure and pain in the body.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रतरस्व नदीं बुद्धया कामग्राहसमाकुलाम् आत्मकर्मोद्धवां तात जिद्नावर्ता दुरासदाम्

English

The creature is never born, nor does he ever perish; having enjoyed the body, he goes sometime to the highest goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तां तीर्ण: सर्वतो मुक्तो विधृतात्मा55त्मविच्छुचि:

English

Wasting the body made of merit and demerit by the heap of action, the embodied one with spent body again attains Brahman-hood.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अक्रुध्यन्नप्रहृष्यंश्न न नृशंसमतिस्तथा धर्म धर्मभृतां श्रेष्ठा मुनयस्तत्त्वदर्शिन:

English

For the exhaustion of merit and demerit, Sankhya knowledge is ordained; at their exhaustion they see Brahman, the highest goal in the state of being."