Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

यदा नेच्छति न देष्टि ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा

English

away a ram. Do thou, this very day, accomplish that which is for thy good. Let not this Death come to thee. Death drags its victims before their acts are accomplished. The acts of tomorrow should be done today, those of the afternoon in the forenoon. Death does not wait to see whether the acts of its victim have all been accomplished or not. Who knows that Death will not come to him even today? In prime of age one should betake oneself to the practice of virtue. Life is transitory. If virtue be practised, fame here and felicity hereafter will be the consequences. Overwhelmed by ignorance, one is ready to exert oneself for sons and wives. Achieving virtuous or vicious acts, one brings them up and aggrandises them. Like a tiger bearing away a sleeping deer, Death snatches away the man addicted to the gratification of desire and engaged in the enjoyment of sons and animals. Before he has been able to pluck the flowers upon which he has set his heart, before he has been gratified by the acquisition of the objects of his desire, Death bears him away like a tiger bearing away its prey. Death overpowers a man while the latter is stilt in the midst of the happiness that accrues from the gratification of desire, and while, still thinking, 'This has been done; this is to be done; this has been half-done.' Death bears away the man, however designated according to his

हिन्दी अर्थ

सत्त्वमिच्छसि संतोषाच्छान्तिलक्षणमुत्तमम्

English

[Yudhishthira said:] "This craving that arises from wealth: how, grandsire, shall we turn it back? For by craving we have been made to do sin."

हिन्दी अर्थ

करनेवाला है, जैसे गरम जल चावलको गला देता है षड््भिल॑क्षणवानेतै: समग्र: पुनरेष्यति

English

[Bhishma said:] "Here too they cite this ancient tale, sung by the king of Videha as he questioned Mandavya.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लक्षणोंसे युक्त मनुष्य पूर्णतः ज्ञानसे तृप्त हो मोक्ष प्राप्त कर लेता है

English

'I live very happily, for I have nothing at all; when Mithila is on fire, nothing of mine is burnt.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुकृत नामसे प्रसिद्ध ब्रह्मको प्राप्त हो जाता है, वह अक्षय सुखका भागी होता है यामयं लभते तुष्टिं सा न शक्‍्या55त्मनोडन्यथा

English

Riches, though abundant, are surely sorrow for those who know; and though not abundant, they ever bewilder the unwise.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यो ह्यास्ते ब्राह्मण:शिष्ट: स आत्मरतिरुच्यते

English

The pleasure of desire in the world and the great divine pleasure do not equal a sixteenth part of the pleasure of the end of craving.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणं विषयाश्शलिष्टं जरामृत्यू न विन्दत: इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थाश्न शरीरस्थो5तिवर्तते

English

As the horn of a cow grows when she grows in due time, so craving grows as wealth grows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुनरावर्तनं नास्ति सम्प्राप्तस्थ परं पदम्

English

When anything is conceived with the sense of mine, all of it becomes torment and, at its loss, arises again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वक्‍त्रा गुणवता शिष्य: श्राव्य: पूर्वमिदं महत् गुणवान् वक्ता पहले इस महत्त्वपूर्ण अध्यात्म-शास्त्रका श्रवण कराये

English

One should not follow desires; delight in desires is sorrow; having got wealth, one should use it, and avoid desire in dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्मभावकी प्राप्ति होती है कर्मणा मनसा वाचा ब्रद्म सम्पद्यते तदा

English

profession, attached to his field, his shop, or his home, before he has obtained the fruit of his acts. Death bears away the weak, the strong, the brave, the timid, the idiotic, and the learned, before any of these obtains the fruits of his acts. When death, decrepitude, disease, and sorrow arising from diverse causes, are all residing in thy body, how is it that thou livest as if thou art perfectly hale? As soon as a creature is born, Decrepitude and Death pursue him for (effecting) his destruction. All existent things, mobile and immobile, are affected by these two. The attachment which one feels for dwelling in villages and towns (in the midst of fellowmen) is said to be the very mouth of Death. The forest, on the other hand, is regarded as the fold within which the senses may be penned. This is declared by the Srutis. \ The attachment a person feels for dwelling in a village or town (in the midst of men) is like a cord that binds him effectually. They that are good break that cord and attain to emancipation, while they that are wicked do not succeed in breaking them. He who never injures living creatures by thought, word, or deed, is never injured by such agencies as are destructive of life and property. 2 Nothing can resist the messengers (Disease and Decrepitude) of Death when they advance except Truth which devours Untruth. In Truth is immortality. 3 For these reasons one should practise the vow of Truth; one should devote oneself to a union with Truth; one should accept Truth for one's Veda; and restraining one's senses, one should vanquish the Destroyer by Truth. Both Immortality and Death are planted in the body. One comes to Death through ignorance and loss of judgment; while Immortality is achieved through Truth. I shall, therefore, abstain from injury and seek to achieve Truth, and transgressing the sway of desire and wrath, regard pleasure and pain with an equal eye, and attaining tranquillity, avoid Death like an immortal. Upon the advent of that season when the sun will progress towards the north, I shall restraining my senses, set to the performance of the Santa-sacrifice, the fira/zraa-sacrifice, the Mind- sacrifice, and the Work-sacrifice. 4 How can one like me worship his Maker in animal-sacrifices involving cruelty, or sacrifices of the body, such as Pisachas only can perform and such as produce fruits that are transitory? 5 That person whose words, thoughts,

हिन्दी अर्थ

कामबन्धनमुक्तो हि ब्रह्मुभूयाय कल्पते

English

Having given up both truth and untruth, grief and joy, the dear and the undear, and having given up fear and fearlessness, one becomes perfectly calm and free of disease.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चन्द्रमाकी भाँति निर्मल होकर धैर्यपूर्वक कालकी प्रतीक्षा करता रहता है स शान्तिमाप्नोति न कामकाम:

English

That craving, hard for the ill-minded to give up, which does not age as one ages, the disease that ends in death: happiness is for one who gives up that craving.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दमस्योपनिषद् दानं दानस्योपनिषत् तपः

English

Seeing the conduct of the self, pure like the moon, free of disease, the righteous-souled gains fame, here and hereafter, happily.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

दानका सार है तपस्या सुखस्योपनिषत् स्वर्ग: स्वर्गस्योपनिषच्छम:

English

Hearing the king's words, the brahmana became glad; and honouring those words, Mandavya resorted to liberation."

हिन्दी अर्थ

भावाभावौ च कालबश्च सर्वभूतेषु पडचसु

English

penances, renunciation, and yoga meditation, all rest on Brahma, succeeds in earning the highest good. There is no eye which is equal to (the eye of) Knowledge. There is no penance like (that involved in) Truth. There is no sorrow equal to (that involved in) attachment. There is no happiness (that which is obtainable from) renunciation. I have sprung from Brahma through Brahma. I shall devote myself to Brahma, though I am childless. I shall return to Brahma. I do not require a son for rescuing me. A Brahmana can have no wealth like to the state of being alone, the state in consequence of which he is capable of regarding everything with an equal eye, the practice of truthfulness, good behaviour, patience, abstention from injury, simplicity, and avoidance of all rites and visible sacrifices. What use hast thou, O Brahmana, of wealth or kinsmen and relatives, of wives, when thou shalt have to die? Seek thy Self which is concealed in a cave. Where are thy grandsires and where thy sire?' l

हिन्दी अर्थ

कर्मभि: परिपश्यन्ति शास्त्रोक्तै: शास्त्रवेदिन: निकले हुए सूक्ष्म स्वरूप जीवात्माको देखते हैं

English

[Bhishma said:] "Devoted to the dharmas of liberation, light of diet, master of senses, one reaches the highest place, which is beyond nature and firm.

हिन्दी अर्थ

(यह ज्ञानदृष्टिसे ही जाननेमें आ सकता है) सत्त्ववत्सु तथा सत्त्वं प्रतिरूपं स पश्यति

English

Going forth from his house, equal in gain and loss, the sage should wander, without expectation of desires that rise.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वशे तिष्ठति सत्त्वात्मा सततं योगयोगिनाम्

English

He should not offend by eye, mind or speech; he should never speak a fault, directly or indirectly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सप्तभिस्त्वन्वित: सूक्ष्मैश्नरिष्णुरजरामर: स्वप्लेष्वपि भवत्येष विज्ञाता सुखदु:खयो:

English

He should not harm any beings, and go the way of Maitrayana; having obtained this life, he should not make enmity with anyone.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्रोधलोभौ तु तत्रापि कृत्वा व्यसनमृच्छति

English

He should bear harsh words, and never be proud; angered, he should speak kindly; abused, he should speak well.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भाँति ही) क्रोध और लोभ करके वह संकटमें पड़ जाता है करोति पुण्यं तत्रापि जीवन्निव च पश्यति

English

He should not go in a circle clockwise or anticlockwise in the middle of the village; unless in need, he should not go for alms to a house previously marked.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दश मासान् वसन् कुक्षौ नैषोऊन्नमिव जीर्यते

English

Unscattered and well guarded, he should not speak unpleasantly; he should be gentle, not cruel in return, trusting, without anger.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तमोरजो भ्यामाविष्टा नानुपश्यन्ति मूर्तिषु अनुच्छवासान्यमूर्तानि यानि वज्रोपमान्यपि

English

Where there is no smoke, the pestle laid down, the embers gone, people having eaten, and the passing of vessels past, the sage should seek alms.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्य शब्दं गुणं विद्यान्मूर्तिशास्त्रविधानवित् जाननेवाला मनुष्य शब्दको आकाशका गुण जाने

English

"Bhishma continued, 'Do thou also, O monarch, conduct thyself in that way in which the sire (in this story), conducts himself, devoted to the religion of Truth, after having listened to the speech of his son.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्पर्शन॑ चेन्द्रियं विद्यात् तथा स्पर्श च तन्‍्मयम्

English

apihitah. The words with ava and api frequently drop the initial a, Hence a-pihitah means not covered.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भी वायुमय ही समझना चाहिए तस्य रूपं गुणं विद्यात् ताम्रगौरासितात्मकम्

English

deva is here used for implying the senses.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और ताम्र आदि वर्णवाले रूपको उसका गुण समझना चाहिए

English

Asaryajyam and Asatyadyam are both correct. The sense is the same. The first means 'having untruth for the libation (that it eats up).' The second means 'having untruth for the food (it devours)'.

हिन्दी अर्थ

असृड्मज्जा च यच्चान्यत् स्निग्धं विद्यात् तदात्मकम् संघात: पार्थिवो धातुरस्थिदन्‍्तनखानि च

English

other words, to restrain all sorts of propensities or inclinations. The Brahma-sacrifice is reflection on truths laid down in the Upanishads. The Word-sacrifice consists in the silent recitation (japa) of the Pranava or Om, the initial mantra. The Mind-sacrifice is contemplation of the Supreme Soul. The Work- sacrifice consists in baths, cleanliness, and waiting upon the preceptor.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इन्द्रियं प्राणसंज्ञातं नासिकेत्यभिसंज्ञिता

English

The ascetic should restrain the force of speech, of the mind, of anger, of contentiousness, of the belly and genitals; blame should not strike his heart.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उत्तरेषु गुणा: सन्ति सर्वसत्त्वेषु चोत्तरा: मनो नवममेषां तु बुद्धिस्तु दशमी स्मृता

English

He should stay neutral, equal toward praise and blame; this is the supreme purifier in the mendicant's stage.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इनके साथ मनको नवाँ और बुद्धिको दसवाँ तत्त्व माना गया है

English

Great-souled, of good vows, self-controlled, dependent on nothing anywhere, of unprecedented conduct, gentle, homeless, collected,

हिन्दी अर्थ

पश्यत्यकलुषं कर्म स मोहं नानुवर्तते कर्म करता है, वह कभी मोहमें नहीं पड़ता है

English

he should never mix with forest-dwellers and householders; he should seek unknown alms, and joy should not enter him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्विपज्चाशदधिकद्धिशततमो5ध्याय:

English

For those who know, this is liberation; for those who do not, toil; this whole vehicle of liberation Harita spoke to the learned.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्तथैव सत्त्वान्यतिमानुषाणि

English

The twice-born who goes forth from the house, having given fearlessness to all beings, has radiant worlds and becomes fit for the endless."

हिन्दी अर्थ

समाधौ योगमेवैतच्छाण्डिल्य: शममब्रवीत्

English

the latter reading be accepted, the meaning will be 'a sacrifice like that of a Kshatriya, i.e., battle.' Hence, all kinds of acts involving cruelty.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पृथग्भूतं मनो बुद्धया मनो भवति केवलम् बुद्धिसे पृथक् होता है, तब केवल मन रह जाता है

English

[Yudhishthira said:] "The sorrow, best of the Kurus, that is met even by gods, when born as a human, honoured by the world, grandsire:

हिन्दी अर्थ

परंतु परिवर्तनशील होनेके कारण उसे तत्त्वज्ञ पुरुष नित्य नहीं बताते हैं

English

when shall we make renunciation, called sorrow? This bearing of bodies is sorrow, best of the Kurus.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स शत्रुभिर्हत: संख्ये सबल: सपदानुग:

English

Freed from the seventeen and the five causes, from the objects of the senses and the eight qualities, great-grandsire,

हिन्दी अर्थ

नारदका उन्हें दर्शन हुआ शन्रुभिग्रहणं संख्ये पुत्रस्य मरणं तथा

English

the sages of strict vows do not go to rebirth; when shall we be so, giving up the kingdom, scourge of foes?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

समाचार यथावत् रूपसे नारदजीके सामने कह सुनाया

English

[Bhishma said:] "There is nothing endless, great king, all comes within reckoning; even rebirth is reckoned; nothing here is unmoving.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आख्यानमिदमाचष्ट पुत्रशोकापहं तदा इतिहास कहना आरम्भ किया, जो उनके पुत्रशोकको मिटानेवाला था

English

And one does not go, king; this fault is incidental; by effort alone, knower of dharma, you will go in time.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथावृत्तं श्रुतं चैव मयेदं वसुधाधिप

English

This embodied one is ever lord of merit and demerit, king; yet from them he is covered by the darkness that arises.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इसे जैसा सुना है, वह यथावत् वृत्तान्त तुम्हें सुना रहा हूँ अतीव वृद्धा बहुला नामृष्यत पुन: प्रजा:

English

As a dusty wind, entering the crystal, is seen in its colour tinting the directions,

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणमें) कहा है प्रधानविनियोगज्ञ: परं ब्रह्मानुपश्यति

English

so the embodied one, tinted by the fruits of action and covered with darkness, colourless, turns in bodies relying on armour.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्रिपज्चाशदधिकद्धिशततमो ध्याय:

English

When a creature drives away by knowledge the darkness born of ignorance, then eternal Brahman would shine.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्रोधमानमहास्कन्धो विधित्सापरिषेचन: मोहनीभि: पिपासाभिली॑ताभिरनुवेष्टित:

English

The sages say it is accomplished without effort; and those freed are to be served by you and the world with the gods; therefore the hosts of great sages are not at peace.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आयसै: संयुता: पाशै: फलदं परिवेष्ट्य तम्

English

On this matter, long ago, hear what was sung, king, one-pointed, of how the Daitya Vritra acted when he had fallen from lordship.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गत: स दुःखयोरन्तं जरामरणयोर्द्धयो: डालता है, वह मनुष्य जरा और मृत्युजनित दोनों प्रकारके दुःखोंसे पार हो जाता है

English

Conquered, helpless, his kingdom taken, Bharata, not grieving among his enemies, relying on wisdom alone,

हिन्दी अर्थ

स तमेव ततो हन्ति विषग्रन्थिरिवातुरम्

English

to Vritra fallen from lordship Ushanas formerly said: "Danava, have you no pain today, conquered?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

बन्धं वै कामशास्त्रस्य स दुःखान्यतिवर्तते तत्त्वबुद्धेः शरीरस्थं मनो नामार्थचिन्तकम्

English

[Vritra said:] "By truth and austerity, knowing the destruction, I neither grieve nor rejoice at the coming and going of beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदर्थमुपजीवन्ति पौरा: सह पुरेश्वरै:

English

Beings urged by Time sink helpless in hell; the wise say all this has been seen to be divine.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्र बुद्धिहहिं दुर्धर्षा मन: सामान्यमश्लुते हैं। वहाँ बुद्धि दुर्धर्ष होनेपर भी मनके साथ रहनेसे उसीके समान हो जाती है

English

Having spent the reckoned time urged by Time, with remaining time they are born again and again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदर्थ बुद्धिरध्यास्ते सोडनर्थ: परिषीदति

English

Having gone through thousands of animal wombs and even hell, helpless beings emerge, bound with the bonds of Time.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त॑ं चादाय जन॑ पौरं रजसे सम्प्रयच्छति

English

I have seen creatures so wandering; as the deed, so the gain: so the shastra shows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्वैधायनमुखाद् भ्रष्ट श्लाघया परयानघ ततो5हमपि वक्ष्यामि भूय: पुत्र निदर्शनम्

English

Animal, hell, human and divine, having first practised pleasure, pain, the dear and the hated, all the world goes, joined with the ordinance of the end; and all beings go always the road gone.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गन्धो गुरुत्वं शक्तिश्व संघात: स्थापना धृति:

English

The whole world goes joined with the ordinance of the end, and all beings go always on the road already travelled.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विशालता, शक्ति, संघात, स्थापना और धारणशक्ति--ये दस पृथ्वीके गुण हैं जिह्नदा विस्यन्दनं चापि भौमानां श्रप्णं तथा

English

[Bhishma said:] To him speaking, reckoned by the count of Time, whose resort is creation and maintenance, the blessed Ushanas answered: 'Dear, why do you speak these dreadful, wicked words?'

हिन्दी अर्थ

चावल-दाल आदिको गला देना--ये सब जलके गुण हैं

English

[Vritra said:] 'This is plain to you and other wise ones: the great austerity I performed long ago, greedy for victory.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शोको रागो लघुस्तैक्ष्णयं सततं चोर्ध्वभासिता बलं शैघ्र्यं च मोक्ष च कर्म चेष्टा55त्मता भव:

English

Taking the scents and various juices of beings, I grew, striding over the three worlds by my own splendour.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शक्ति, प्राण और जन्म-मृत्यु--ये सब वायुके गुण हैं

English

Surrounded by garlands of flame, moving in the sky, I was unconquerable by all beings and ever fearless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और चंचलता--ये मनके नौ गुण हैं संशय: प्रतिपत्तिश्न बुद्धे! पजचगुणान् विदु:

English

The lordship gained by austerity is lost by my own deeds; taking steadiness, blessed one, I therefore do not grieve.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एतन्मे सर्वमाचक्ष्व सूक्ष्मज्ञानं पितामह

English

When I wished to fight long ago with the great-souled Mahendra, I saw the blessed Hari Narayana, the lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भूतोंके गुण कैसे हो सकती हैं? यह सारा सूक्ष्म ज्ञान आप मुझे बताइये पुत्र न नित्यं तदिह वदन्ति

English

Vaikuntha, Purusha, Vishnu, white, endless, eternal, with munja-grass hair and green beard, grandfather of all beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भूतप्रभावाद् भव शान्तबुद्धि: यथार्थ तत्त्व सुनकर उन्हीं परमेश्वरके प्रभाव एवं प्रसादसे शान्तबुद्धि हो जाओ

English

Surely a remainder of that austerity is still mine, since I wish to ask you, blessed one, the fruit of action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पृतनामध्य एते हि गतसंज्ञा महाबला:

English

In what class is great lordship founded, brahmana, and how does the highest lordship turn back?

हिन्दी अर्थ

एते हि निहता: संख्ये तुल्यतेजोबलैनरै: मृता इति च शब्दोयं वर्तत्येषु गतासुषु

English

By what do beings live or proceed again, or having attained what supreme fruit does the soul stay eternal?

हिन्दी अर्थ

हरत्यमरसंकाश तनमे ब्रूहि पितामह

English

By what action, or by what knowledge, brahmana sage, can that fruit be gained? You should explain that to me.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

स शत्रुवशमापन्न: संग्रामे क्षीणवाहन: एक समय संग्राममें उनका रथ नष्ट हो गया और वे शत्रुके वशमें पड़ गये

English

Thus addressed, the sage then replied: 'Hear what I say, lion among kings, bull among men, with undivided mind together with your brothers.'"