Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

है? यह प्राणी सारा कार्य स्वयं अपने ही लिये करता है

English

"Bharadwaja said, 'If it is the wind that keeps us alive, if it is the wind that causes us to move and exert, if it is the wind that causes us to breathe and to speak, then it seems that life is worth little. If the animal heat (that digests all food) be of the nature of fire, and if it is that fire which assists at digestion by dissolving the food we take, then life is worth little. When an animal dies, that which is called its life is never seen leaving it. Only the breath leaves it, and the internal heat becomes extinguished. If life were nothing else, than wind, or if life depended only on the wind, then it could have been seen like the external sea of air, and when passing out it would have mingled with that air. If life dependest upon air, and if it ended with the escape of that air from the body, it would then mingle with another portion of air (that exists externally) like a portion of water escaping into the great ocean and thereby only changing the place of its residence. If a quantity of water be thrown into a well, or if the flame of a lamp be thrown into a blazing fire, either of them, entering a homogeneous element, loses its independent or separate existence. If life were air, it also, when the animal died, would mingle with the great ocean of air outside. How can we say that there is life in this animal body which is made up of the five (primal) elements? If one of those elements disappear, the union of the other four becomes dissolved. The element of water drieth up if food be not taken. The element of air disappears if the breath be restrained. The element of space disappears if the excretions cease. So also the element of fire becomes extinguished if food does not go in. The element of earth breaks in pieces in consequence of diseases, wounds, and other sufferings. If only one of the five becomes afflicted, the union, being dissolved, the five go away into five different directions. When the body which is a union of the elements, becomes separated into five ingredients, whither doth life go? What doth it then know? What doth it then hear? What doth it then say? This cow (that is given away to a holy Brahmana), it is said, will rescue me in the other world. The animal, however, that is given away, itself dies. Whom then will this cow rescue? The taker of the cow (in gift) and the

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभ्युदयकी आशा नहीं रखनी चाहिए धर्म वै शाश्व॒तं लोके न जह्माद् धनकाड्क्षया

English

[Vasishtha said:] "Constantly, for play, nature here modifies, lord of men, making the self many, and sees those same.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स शब्दमात्रफलभागू राजा भवति तस्कर:

English

One awakening does not awaken to this modifier; and from awakening the unmanifest they say the awakening one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मद्यमांसोपजीव्यं च विक्रयं लोहचर्मणो: कृतपूर्व तु त्यजतो महान् धर्म इति श्रुति:

English

But the unmanifest, with or without qualities, is never awakened; sometimes they call it the unawakened.

हिन्दी अर्थ

राजान: क्षत्रियाश्वैव मण्डलेषु पृथक् पृथक्

English

If this twenty-fifth awakens the unmanifest, then, awakening, he is of the nature of attachment: so scripture says.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भजन्ते तानि चाद्यापि ये बालिशतरा नरा:

English

By this they say "the imperishable unmanifest is unawakened"; and from awakening the unmanifest they say he is awakening.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संसिद्धाधिगमं कुर्यात् कर्म हिंसात्मकं त्यजेत् होनेका प्रयत्न तो करना चाहिए, किंतु हिंसात्मक कर्मका त्याग कर देना चाहिए

English

Nor does he awaken the great-souled twenty-fifth; the twenty-sixth is stainless, awake, immeasurable and eternal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्मार्थ न्यायमुत्सूज्य न तत् कल्याणमुच्यते

English

Constantly the twenty-fifth and twenty-fourth are awakened; both of great radiance follow the visible and invisible.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रजा भृत्यांश्व पुत्रांश्व स्वधर्मेणानुपालय प्रजा, भृत्य और पुत्रोंका स्वधर्मके अनुसार पालन करो

English

The unmanifest, but not that Brahman, is awakened, dear, only; he does not see the lone twenty-fifth and twenty-fourth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तयो: पुण्यतरं दानं॑ तद् द्विजस्य प्रयच्छत: संरक्ष्यं यत्नमास्थाय धर्मार्थमिति निश्चय:

English

giver are both equal (in being both subject to death). Both of them meet with extinction in this world. How then will they meet again? How will the person that has been eaten up by birds, or that has been broken in pieces by a fall from a mountain summit, or that has been consumed by fire, regain life? The root of a tree that has been cut down does not grow up again. Only the seeds put forth sprouts. Where is the person who having died comes back (to some sort of new existence)? Only seeds were originally created. All this universe is the result of seeds in succession. They that die, die to perish Seeds result

हिन्दी अर्थ

शक्तित: सर्वकार्याणि कुर्यन्नरद्धिमनुस्मरेत्

English

And when he awakens the supreme, pure, spotless intellect, tiger among kings, the twenty-sixth then attains awakeness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शक्तितो5तिथये दत्त्वा क्षुधार्तायाश्वुते फलम् फलपपत्रैरथो मूलैर्मुनीनर्चितवांश्ष सः

English

Then he gives up the unmanifest, subject to creation and dissolution; the one without qualities knows nature as endowed with qualities and unconscious.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इसीसे उन्हें वह सिद्धि प्राप्त हुई, जिसकी सब लोग अभिलाषा रखते हैं

English

Then he is of the nature of aloneness, from seeing the unmanifest; joined with the alone, freed, he would reach the self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

था, जिससे उन्हें उत्तम लोककी प्राप्ति हुई ऋणवान् जायते मर्त्यस्तस्मादनृणतां व्रजेत्

English

They call this the principle; the unprincipled is ageless and deathless; by resting on the principles, this is principled, honoured one; the wise declare twenty-five principles.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पितृभ्य: श्राद्धदानेन नृणामभ्यर्चनेन च

English

He is not principled, dear; the wise one is unprincipled; he soon gives up the principle; that is the mark of the awakened.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथावद् भृत्यवर्गस्य चिकीर्षेत् कर्म आदित: सम्यग् हुत्वा हुतवहं मुनयः सिद्धिमागता:

English

"I am the twenty-sixth": so the wise one, being grasped, ageless and deathless, by his sole strength goes to equality; there is no doubt.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋग्भि: स्तुत्वा महाबाहो देवान् वै यज्ञभागिन:

English

By the awakened twenty-sixth even the one awakening is unwise; this is called manyness, by the illustration of Sankhya scripture.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवीं स्तुत्वा तु गगने मोदते यशसा वृत: लेभिरे तपसा सिद्धि प्रसादात् तस्य धीमत:

English

Joined with the conscious, and the twenty-fifth, he becomes one with him, when he is not awakened by intellect.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नतु वृद्धिमिहान्विच्छेत् कर्म कृत्वा जुगुप्सितम्

English

Awakening, he goes to equality with the unawakened, Maithila; he is of the nature of attachment and the unattached self, lord of men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्याग कभी नहीं करना चाहिए

English

Reaching the unattached self they know the unborn twenty-sixth; the pervader gives up the unmanifest when he awakens to this, the twenty-fourth, the unfathomable, by the awakening of the twenty-sixth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्रेयो हानाहिताग्नित्वमग्निहोत्रं न निष्क्रियम् गुरुश्न नरशार्दूल परिचर्या यथातथम्

English

This one is the unawakened and the awakening, sinless one, and the awake is told in truth, as by the illustration of scripture; this much of manyness and oneness is to be seen by those with the vision of shastra.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उसका आदर करते हैं

English

As gnat and fig-tree are separate, so are these two; as fish in water, so separateness is perceived.

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्विनवत्यधिकद्विशततमो5 ध्याय: प्रीत्योपनीता निर्दिष्टा धर्मिष्ठान् कुरुते सदा

English

So the manyness and oneness of these two is to be understood; this is called liberation, joined with knowledge of the unmanifest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सदा उन्हें धर्मिष्ठ बनाती है

English

The one who dwells in bodies of this twenty-fifth is to be freed, they say, from the sphere of the unmanifest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न वृत्तिं परतो मार्गेच्छुश्रूषां तु प्रयोजयेत् नित्यं सर्वास्ववस्थासु नासद्धिरिति मे मति:

English

He is freed so, not otherwise: so it is settled; meeting the supreme he becomes of supreme nature.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा सत्संनिकर्षेण हीनवर्णोडपि दीप्यते

English

Of pure nature, with the pure and awake he is wise; of freed nature, meeting the freed, bull among men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तादृशं कुरुते रूपमेतदेवमवेहि मे अनित्यमिह मर्त्यानां जीवितं हि चलाचलम्

English

With one engaged in duty he becomes engaged in duty; with one seeking liberation, liberation is met and so he would become.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जीवन अनित्य और चंचल है

English

Pure in deed and pure, he becomes of immeasurable radiance; of stainless soul, meeting the stainless soul.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चिनोति शुभान्येव स तन्त्राणीह पश्यति न तत् सेवेत मेधावी न तद्धितमिहोच्यते

English

Of lone soul, meeting the lone; independent, meeting the independent, he gains independence.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धातासृजत् पुत्रमेक॑ लोकानां धारणे रतम् शूद्रर्निर्मार्जनं कार्यमेवं धर्मो न नश्यति

English

So much has been told to you by me, great king, true, the truth as it is; accepting the meaning without envy, the eternal, pure, primal Brahman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अतोडन्यथा मजनुष्येन्द्र स्वरर्मात् परिहीयते

English

This supreme should not be given by you to a man not devoted to the Veda, king; it is the teaching to be given to one who wishes to know, who bows in order to awaken.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न्यायेनोपार्जिता दत्ता: किमुतान्या: सहस्रश: यादृशं तादृशं नित्यमश्नाति फलमूर्जितम्

English

It is not to be given likewise to one of false self, the crafty, the weak, the crooked-minded, or one who torments the knowledge of the learned; it is to be given by you to one such as I describe:

हिन्दी अर्थ

सदा ही उपभोग करता है

English

to the faithful, virtuous, one ever turned away from slander, of pure yoga and wise, active, patient and well-wishing,

हिन्दी अर्थ

याचितेन तु यद् दत्तं तदाहुर्मध्यमं बुधा: तमाहुरधमं दानं॑ मुनयः सत्यवादिन:

English

to one of solitary character who loves rules, free of quarrel, much learned, discerning, patient with no harm, able in self-control and the peace of embodied beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा प्रयत्न कुर्वीत यथा मुच्येत संश्रयात्

English

To one lowest in these virtues it should not be given; they call this the supreme pure Brahman; one who gives to an unfit vessel will not be joined with the good, an expounder of dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धनेन वैश्य: शूद्रस्तु नित्यं दाक्ष्येण शोभते त्रिनवत्यधिकद्धिशततमोध्याय:

English

Even if one were to give this whole earth full of jewels, this should not be given to one without vows; to the master of senses, without doubt, this supreme may be given, lord of men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वैश्ये न्यायार्जिताश्वैव शूद्रे शुश्रूषयार्जिता:

English

Karala, let there be no fear in you; this supreme Brahman has been heard by you today, rightly told, supremely holy, griefless, utterly without beginning or middle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नित्यं त्रयाणां वर्णानां शुश्रूषु: शूद्र उच्यते शूद्रधर्मा यदा तु स्यात् तदा पतति वै द्विज:

English

Birth and death are unfathomable, king, free of disease, fearless and auspicious; seeing this, give up all delusion today, having known the truth of the meaning of knowledge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शूद्रस्थापि विधीयन्ते यदा वृत्ति्न जायते

English

This was obtained long ago from the eternal Hiranyagarbha, as he told, lord of men; having appeased by effort that one of fierce splendour, the eternal Brahman, as you have asked.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लोग इस भूतलपर केवल सदगुणोंका ही सेवन करते हैं

English

As you have asked me, lord of men, so this has been told to you by me today; and so I received from Brahma the great and ancient knowledge of the knowers of liberation, lord of men."

हिन्दी अर्थ

विवर्धमाना: क्रमशस्तत्र तेडन्वाविशन् प्रजा: दर्पात्मनां ततः पश्चात् क्रोधस्तासामजायत

English

[Bhishma said:] "This has been told, the supreme Brahman, from which one does not return again, the twenty-fifth, great king, by the illustration of the supreme sages.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ह्वीक्षेवाप्पनशद् राज॑ंस्ततो मोहो व्यजायत

English

He who has reached the supreme knowledge returns again; and he does not awaken in truth; the awakening is ageless and deathless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गया। उनका संकोच भी जाता रहा। इसके बाद उनमें मोहकी उत्पत्ति हुई परस्परावमर्देन वर्धयन्त्यो यथासुखम्

English

This is the best of knowledges, bringing the highest good, told to you by me in truth, dear, having heard it from the divine sage, king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एक-दूसरेका विनाश करके अपने-अपने सुखको बढ़ानेकी चेष्टा करने लगे

English

From Hiranyagarbha to the sage Vasishtha, the great soul; from Vasishtha, tiger among sages, Narada received this.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततोभ्यगच्छन देवांश्र ब्राह्मुणांक्षावमन्य ह अगच्छन् शरणं धीरं बहुरूपं गुणाधिकम्

English

From Narada this eternal Brahman was known to me; do not grieve, lord of the Kurus, hearing this supreme state.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धीरजस्वभाव देवेश्वर भगवान् शिवकी शरणमें गये

English

One who has known the perishable and imperishable has no fear; but fear is his, lord of the earth, who does not know this.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्रिधाप्येकेन बाणेन देवाप्पायिततेजसा देवतानां भयकर: स हत: शूलपाणिना

English

From ignorance the deluded self, suffering again and again, after death gains thousands of births ending in death.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सदा भयभीत किये रहता था; किंतु भगवान् शूलपाणिने उसे भी मार डाला

English

He gains the world of the gods, and animal birth and human birth, if he is purified in time from that ocean of ignorance.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सप्तर्षयश्चान्वयुज्जन् नराणां दण्डधारणे स्वयं मनुष्यके शासन-कार्यमें लग गये

English

The ocean of ignorance is dreadful, unmanifest, called unfathomable, in which beings sink day by day, Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आसुराण्येव कर्माणि न्यसेवन् भीमविक्रमा: असुरोचित कर्मोंका ही सेवन करने लगे

English

Since you have crossed from that unfathomable, unmanifest, eternal one, you are therefore free of dust and darkness, lord of the earth."

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्गुणो5पि हि दुर्बुद्धिरात्मन: सोडतिरज्यते

English

"Bhrigu said, 'There is no destruction of the living creature, or of what is given, or of our other acts. The creature that dies only goes into another form. The body along dissolves away. The living creature, though depending upon the body, does not meet with destruction when the body is destroyed. It is not seen after the destruction of the physical frame just as fire is not seen after the consumption of the fuel with which it was ignited.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

बालस्नेहपरीतात्मा तत्क्षयाच्चानुतप्यते करोति येन भोगी स्यामिति तस्माद् विनश्यति

English

[Bhishma said:] Seated, attended, bowing his head to the sage, afterward with his permission, Vasuman asked this:

हिन्दी अर्थ

विश्वेदेवास्तथा साध्या: पितरो5थ मरुद्गणा:

English

"Blessed one, what is this good that may be for a man here or hereafter in the impermanent body, under the power of desire?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

संसिद्धास्तपसा तात ये चान्ये स्वर्गवासिन: ते भावयन्त: पृथिवीं विचरन्ति दिवं तथा

English

Honoured and asked, the great-souled one of great austerity then spoke to him these words that bring the good:

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रभावसे पृथ्वी और आकाशको पवित्र करते हुए ही विचरते हैं

English

"You wish for what is not contrary to the mind hereafter and here; turn away, with restrained senses, from what is contrary to beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

महाकुलेषु दृश्यन्ते तत् सर्व तपस: फलम् हैं, वह सब उनकी तपस्याका ही फल है

English

Dharma is beneficial to the good among men, and dharma is the support of the good; from dharma the three worlds, moving and unmoving, go on.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वाहनासनपानानि तत् सर्व तपस: फलम्

English

You who are fond of the sweet and desirous, why do you not go to freedom from craving? You see the honey, ill-minded; you do not see the fall.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुछ तपस्याका ही फल है अभिप्रेतानि सर्वाणि भवन्ति शुभकर्मिणाम्

English

As practice must be made in knowledge by one wishing its fruit, so practice must be made in dharma by one wishing its fruit.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपभोगपरित्याग: फलान्यकृतकर्मणाम्

English

Pure action is hard for the bad man who wishes dharma; but for the good man who wishes dharma, an easy action is hard.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न तथान्येषु भूतेषु मनुष्यरहितेष्विह आत्मभूत: सदा लोके चरेद् भूतान्यहिंसया

English

"Bharadwaja said, 'If there is no destruction of the living creature like that of fire, I submit, fire itself is not seen after consumption of the fuel (that ignited it). When the supply of fuel is stopped, the fire becomes extinguished, and, as far as I know, becomes annihilated. That should surely be regarded to have met with destruction which has no longer any action, which furnishes no proof of its existence, and which no longer occupies any space.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

नानृतं चैव भवति तदा कल्याणमृच्छति

English

"Bhrigu said, 'It is true that upon the consumption of fuel fire is no longer seen. It mingles with space because there is no longer any visible object in which to inhere, and hence it becomes incapable of perception by us. Similarly, upon leaving the body, the creature lives in space, and cannot be seen in consequence of its extreme subtility as is doubtless the case with fire. It is fire or heat that sustains the breaths called Prana and the others. Know that that heat (thus existing) is called life or the living agent. That heat which is the sustainer of the breaths, becomes extinguished in consequence of the suppression of breath. Upon that heat in the physical frame being extinguished, the frame itself loses animation. Falling down, it is transformed into earth, for that is its ultimate destination. The breath that is in all mobile and immobile objects mingles with space, and the heat that is in them follows that breath. These three (viz., space, air, and tire), mingle together. The other two (viz., water and earth), exist together in the form of earth. There is wind where space is, and there is fire where wind is. They are formless, it should be known, and become endued with form only in respect of embodied creatures.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

मिथ्याचारसे रहित हो जाता है, उस समय उसे कल्याणकी प्राप्ति होती है चतुर्नवत्यधिकद्विशततमोध्याय:

English

"Bharadwaja said, 'If in the physical frames of all living creatures there are heat, wind, earth, space and water, what, then, are the indications of

हिन्दी अर्थ

तपोविधिं तु वक्ष्यामि तन्‍्मे निगदत: शृणु

English

living agent? Tell me these, O sinless one! I desire to know the nature of the life that is in the bodies of living beings,— bodies made up of the five primal elements, engaged in the five acts, endued with the five senses and possessed of animation. Upon the dissolution of the body which is a union of flesh and blood, and a mass of fat, sinews and bones, that which is the living agent cannot be seen. If this body, composed of the five elements, be destitute of what is called life, who or what then is that which feels misery upon the appearance of either bodily or mental pain? The living agent hears what is said, with the

हिन्दी अर्थ

तपकी विधि बताऊँगा, उसे मेरे मुखसे सुनो सड्जागतं नरश्रेष्ठ भावै राजसतामसै:

English

Non-cruel, pure, self-controlled, truthful in speech, standing in honesty, with pure origin and deed, a twice-born knower of the Veda is a fit vessel.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्यक्तियोंमें ममता हो जाती है

English

The honoured only wife, by birth, is held the womb here; the learned master of Rik, Yajus and Saman, of good deed, is called a fit vessel.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दारा: पुत्राश्न भृत्याश्न भवन्तीह नरस्य वै पोषणके योग्य अन्यान्य कुटुम्बीजनोंसे सम्बन्ध स्थापित हो जाता है

English

That is dharma and that adharma, for each man, according to the particular deed of the vessel, observing place and time.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मोहजाता रतिराम समुपैति नराधिप

English

As a man might wipe a little dust from his body playfully, but removing sin takes great effort,

हिन्दी अर्थ

मोहकी कन्या रति उसके पास आ जाती है लाभं ग्राम्यसुखादन्यं रतितो नानुपश्यति

English

as ghee is medicine for one who has purged well, so for one whose faults are removed, dharma brings happiness hereafter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुष्ट्यर्थ चैव तस्येह जनस्यार्थ चिकीर्षति

English

The mind in all beings acts in good and bad; having drawn it from the bad, one should lower it into the good.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लेकर ही वह सारा कार्य करता है और इसी प्रयत्नमें एक दिन नष्ट हो जाता है

English

Honour all that is done everywhere in every way; wherever your attachment is, let dharma be made in your own dharma as you wish.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अन्विच्छतां शुभं कर्म नराणां त्यजतां सुखम् आधिव्याधिप्रतापाच्च निर्वेदमुपगच्छति

English

Unsteady one, stand in steadiness; ill-minded one, become wise; unquiet one, be calm; unwise one, act like the wise.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शाल्त्रार्थदर्शनाद् राज॑ंस्तप एवानुपश्यति

English

It can be reached by energy, joined with means; the good here and hereafter has steadiness as its supreme root.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यो वै प्रियसुखे क्षीणे तप: कर्तु व्यवस्यति मिलनेवाले सुखके न रहनेपर तपमें प्रवृत्त होनेका ही निश्चय करता है

English

The royal sage Mahabhisha, lacking steadiness, fell from heaven, and Yayati, his merit spent, regained worlds through steadiness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जितेन्द्रियस्य दान्तस्य स्वर्गमार्गप्रवर्तकम्

English

By serving ascetics, the righteous and the learned, you will gain vast understanding and will reach the good."

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्वचित् क्वचिद् ब्रह्मपरो व्रतान्यास्थाय पार्थिव ब्रह्मपरायण व्रतमें स्थित होकर संसारकी रचना की थी

English

He, endowed with good nature, hearing the sage's words, turned his mind from desire and set his understanding on dharma.