Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

देहाद् देहलहस्नाणि तथा समभिपद्यते

English

The eye does not know the eye, you; the ear does not abide in the self; so they do not act upon one another by deviation; joined, they are not born, like dust here with water.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपपसद्यति संयोगाद् गुणै: सह गुणक्षयात् तिर्यग्योनियोंमें और कभी देवताओंमें जन्म लेता है

English

They depend on outer virtues; hear those too: form, eye and light are three causes in seeing; as here, so in other knowings and knowables.

हिन्दी अर्थ

है। मनुष्यलोकसे कभी-कभी अनन्त नरकोंमें भी पड़ता है

English

In that interval between knowledge and knowable, another quality named mind, by which one deliberates good and bad in decision.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सूत्रतन्तुगुणर्नित्यं तथायमगुणो गुणौ: शीर्षरोगेडक्षिरोगे च दन्‍तशूले गलग्रहे

English

A twelfth quality there is intellect, by which one decides, with doubt first, in things to be known.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्यथा होती और कभी गलेमें घेधा निकल आता है

English

Then in the twelve there is another quality named sattva, by which a creature is inferred to be of great or little goodness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्वित्रकुछे3ग्निदग्थे च सिध्मापस्मारयोरपि शिकार होता रहता है

English

Another is the fourteenth quality there, the knower of the field, by which this one thinks "this is mine" and does not think it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उत्पद्यन्ते विचित्राणि तान्येषो5प्यभिमन्यते

English

Then a fifteenth quality there, king: the totality of the aggregate of the several parts, so it is said here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मण्डूकशायी च तथा वीरासनगतस्तथा वीरस्थानाम्बुपड़के च शयनं फलकेषु च

English

Another quality there is the sixteenth, the aggregate, in which these two qualities, shape and manifestation, rest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मुज्जमेखलनग्नत्वं क्षौीमकृष्णाजिनानि च

English

Pleasure and pain, old age and death, gain and loss, dear and undear: this is the nineteenth, held to be the conjunction of pairs.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अंगोंको ढँक लेता है। कभी रेशमी पीताम्बर पहनता है कीटकावसनश्लैव चीरवासास्तथैव च

English

Beyond the nineteen, another quality named time; by these twenty know the origin and dissolution of beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भोजनानि विचित्राणि रत्नानि विविधानि च करता है और कभी दिनके चौथे, छठे या आठवें पहरमें भोजन करता है

English

And this aggregate is wonderful; the five great elements, and being and non-being, the two other qualities that illuminate.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वायुभक्षोम्बुपिण्याकदधिगोमय भोजन:

English

So the twenty qualities and the seven that are remembered: the rule, semen and strength are three other qualities.

हिन्दी अर्थ

खली, कभी दही और कभी गोबर खाकर ही रहता है शैवालभोजननश्चैव तथा5चामेन वर्तयन्

English

The twenty-first and the ten are held to be parts by count; where all are present together, that is called the body.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विविधानि च कृच्छाणि सेवते सिद्धिकाड्क्षया

English

Of these parts some want the unmanifest, nature; another, seeing grossly, sees the manifest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चातुराश्रम्यपन्थानमाश्रयत्यपथानपि विविक्ताश्न शिलाच्छायास्तथा प्रस्रवणानि च

English

Whether unmanifest or manifest, twofold or fourfold, those who think on the self see the nature of all beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवस्थानानि पुण्यानि विविक्तानि सरांसि च

English

This unmanifest nature has become manifest through the parts: I, you, king of kings, and the other embodied beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विविक्तानि च जप्यानि व्रतानि विविधानि च यज्ञांश्न विविधाकारान् विधींश्व विविधांस्तथा

English

States beginning with the placing of a drop, arisen from semen and blood, by whose falling alone the embryo is formed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दानं च विविधाकारं दीनान्धकृपणादिषु

English

From the embryo the swelling arises, from the swelling the flesh-mass, from the flesh-mass the formation of the limbs, and nails and hair from the limbs.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वधाकारवषट्कारौ स्वाहाकारनमस्क्रिया: शुभाशुभमयं सर्वमेतदाहु: क्रियापथम्

English

In the ninth month complete, Maithila, of the born creature, name and form arise, woman or man by the mark.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सबको समेटकर अकेला ही रह जाता है

English

Seeing a form newly born, with copper-red nails and fingers, then it becomes the form of a child, and the earlier is not found in the form.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्रियां क्रियापथोपेतस्तथा तदिति मन्यते

English

From childhood to youth and from youth to old age; by this sequence the earlier is not found.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रजसा तमसा चैव व्याप्तं सर्वमनेकथा ममैवैतानि जायन्ते धावन्ते तानि मामिति

English

The separation of the parts, of different purposes, goes on moment by moment in all beings, but from subtlety it is not perceived.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मन्यतेयं हाबुद्धत्वात् तथैव सुकृतान्यपि

English

Neither their dissolution nor their origin is seen, king; the course of state to state is like the flame of a lamp.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इहैव चैनं भोक्ष्यामि शुभाशुभफलोदयम् यावदन्तं च मे सौख्यं जात्यां जात्यां भविष्यति

English

And with its origin so, running like a good horse constantly, who is this of the whole world, whence, or whence not?

हिन्दी अर्थ

महद् दुःखं हि मानुष्यं निरये चापि मज्जनम्

English

Whose is this, or whose not? Whence is this, or not? What relation is there among beings even with their own members here?

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनुष्यत्वाच्च देवत्वं देवत्वात् पौरुषं पुन: य एवं वेत्ति नित्यं वै निरात्मा55त्मगुणैवुत:

English

As fire arises from the sun, from the jewel and from the plants, so beings arise from the combination of parts.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ममत्वेनावृतो नित्यं तत्रैव परिवर्तते

English

As you see the self in the self by the self, so why do you not see the self in another by the self? If you resolve upon equality of self and other...

हिन्दी अर्थ

कोटि सृष्टिपर्यन्त नश्वर शरीरोंमें ही सदा चक्कर लगाता रहता है य एवं कुरुते कर्म शुभाशुभफलात्मकम्

English

then why do you ask me 'who are you, whose?' For one freed from the pairs, 'this is mine, this is not,' what purpose is there in asking 'who are you, whose, whence?'

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रकृतिश्च तदश्नाति त्रिषु लोकेषु कामगा

English

He who has made enemy, friend and neutral, victory, peace and war, lord of the earth, what mark of the freed is in him?

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरुष अज्ञानके कारण कर्ता-भोक्ता बन जाता है) त्रीणि स्थानानि चैतानि जानीयात् प्रकृतानि ह

English

He who does not know the sevenfold manifest in the three aims in actions, and who is attached to the three aims, what mark of the freed is in him?

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथैव पौरुषं लिड्रमनुमानाद्धि मन्‍्यते व्रणद्वाराण्यधिष्ठाय कर्मण्यात्मनि मन्यते

English

He who has no equal eye in the dear and undear, the weak and strong, what mark of the freed is in him?

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपनेमें मान लेता है

English

The conceit you have in your liberation, while unfreed, king, should be turned aside by friends, as a deranged man by physicians.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वागादीनि प्रवर्तन्ते गुणेष्विह गुणा: सह सृष्टिसे उसका कोई सम्बन्ध नहीं होनेपर भी सृष्टिको अपनी ही समझता है

English

Looking at those and those places of attachment, scourge of foes, he should see in the self by the self; what mark of the freed is in him?

हिन्दी अर्थ

अक्षर: क्षरमात्मानमबुद्धिस्त्वभिमन्यते

English

Hear from me these other subtle seats of attachment, resorting to liberation, that go on in four limbs.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्गकोटि सहस्राणि पतनान्तानि गच्छति जीवका निरन्तर पतन होता है तथा उसे हजारों-करोड़ बार जन्म लेने पड़ते हैं

English

The king who rules this whole earth under one parasol dwells in just one city.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लीयतेडप्रतिबुद्धत्वादेवमेष हाबुद्धिमान्

English

In that city he occupies just one house; in the house, one bed in which he lies at night.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नित्यमेतद् विजानीहि सोम॑ वै षोडशीं कलाम् उसको तुम नित्य समझो। वह चन्द्रमाकी अमा नामक सोलहवीं कलाके समान है

English

Half the bed, too, a woman occupies first; so by this connection he is joined with its fruit.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धाम तस्योपयुञ्जन्ति भूय एवोपजायते

English

So too in enjoyments, in food and clothing, in measured virtues, regarding restraint and favour:

हिन्दी अर्थ

न तूपयुज्यते देवै्देवानुपयुनक्ति सा सोलहवीं कला अर्थात् उन सबकी कारणभूता प्रकृति ही उनका उपयोग करती है

English

a king is ever dependent, and engaged in small things; in peace and war where is the king's independence?

हिन्दी अर्थ

उसीमें भटकता रहता है

English

In pleasures of women and recreation, he is always unfree; in counsel and in the assembly of ministers how is he independent?

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्त्रीपुंसोर्वापि भगवन् सम्बन्धस्तद्वदुच्यते

English

When he commands others, then his independence is said; but he is made helplessly to do things in this and that quality.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋते स्त्रियं न पुरुषो रूप॑ निर्वर्त येत् तथा पुरुष ही किसी शरीरको उत्पन्न कर सकता है

English

Wanting to sleep, he cannot sleep because of people seeking business; even permitted to sleep in bed, he is woken helplessly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्माण होता है। प्रायः सभी योनियोंमें ऐसी ही स्थिति है

English

"Bathe, anoint, drink, eat, offer to the fires, sacrifice, speak, listen": thus he is made helplessly to act by others.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अस्थि स्नायुश्न मज्जा च जानीम: पितृतो गुणा: एवमेतद् द्विजश्रेष्ठ वेदे शास्त्रे च पठ्यते

English

Men approach and approach him begging always, and, guarding his wealth, he cannot bring himself to give to a great multitude.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वेदशास्त्रद्धयं चैव प्रमाणं तत् सनातनम्

English

In giving, his treasury is lost; if he refuses, enmity; in a moment faults that cause detachment arise in him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जाता है, वह सब ठीक है; क्योंकि वेद और शास्त्र दोनों ही सनातन प्रमाण हैं एवमेवाभिसम्बद्धौ नित्यं प्रकृतिपूरुषी

English

He fears the wise, the brave and the rich even in one place; in safety there is fear for a king from those who always attend him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अथवानन्तरकृतं किंचिदेव निदर्शनम्

English

When these whom I have named turn bad, king, from them fear arises in him, see what kind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और मुझे ठीक-ठीक समझा दीजिये; क्योंकि आपको सदा सब कुछ प्रत्यक्ष है कोई शासक नहीं रहता

English

Each king in his own house, each householder in his own house, doing restraint and favour, is equal to King Janaka.

हिन्दी अर्थ

है, वह ठीक है। तुम जैसा समझते हो, वैसी ही बात है

English

Sons, wives, the self, treasury, friends and hoard are shared with others; by those and those causes they are his.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नच ग्रन्थस्य तत्त्वज्ञो यथातत्त्व॑ नरेश्वर नच ग्रन्थार्थतत्त्वज्ञस्तस्य तद्धारणं वृथा

English

If a country is destroyed, a city burnt, the chief elephant dead, he is tormented by false knowledge in these common things of the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यस्तु ग्रन्थार्थतत्त्वज्ञो नास्य ग्रन्थागमो वृथा यथा तत्त्वाभिगमनादर्थ तस्य स विन्दति

English

Unfreed from mental sorrows born of wish, aversion and love, by diseases like headache, and by the falling kind,

हिन्दी अर्थ

स कथं मन्दविज्ञानो ग्रन्थं वक्ष्यति निर्णयात्

English

struck by those and those pairs, suspicious on every side, he serves a kingdom with many foes, counting the nights.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नहीं बता सकता, वह निर्णयपूर्वक उस ग्रन्थका तात्पर्य कैसे कह सकता है? सोपहासात्मतामेति यस्माच्चैवात्मवानपि

English

That is very little happiness, much sorrow, without essence; who would take a kingdom, and having taken it, find peace?

हिन्दी अर्थ

याथातथ्येन सांख्येषु योगेषु च महात्मसु

English

This city and kingdom, army, treasury and ministers which you think 'mine': whose are they, or not, king?

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकं सांख्यं च योगं च य: पश्यति स बुद्धिमान् देहाद् देहमवाप्रोति बीजाद बीज॑ तथैव च

English

Ally, minister, city, realm, rod, treasury and the king: this sevenfold wheel-aggregate is called a kingdom, king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देहसे देहकी प्राप्ति होती है

English

In this sevenfold kingdom, standing like a triple staff, joined to each other's qualities, which is greater than which by quality?

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवं गुणा: प्रकृतितो जायन्ते निविशन्ति च अष्टौ तान्यथ शुक्रेण जानीहि प्राकृतानि वै

English

At those and those times that member is the more distinguished; by which a work is accomplished, it becomes chief.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न वापुमान् पुमांश्चैव स लिज्लीत्यभिधीयते

English

The sevenfold aggregate and three others, best of kings, together are the tenfold group, and enjoy the kingdom as a king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथा पुष्पफलैर्नित्यमृतवो 5मूर्तयस्तथा रखता है। तात! वही पचीसवाँ तत्त्व है, जो सभी लिंगोंमें नियतरूपसे व्याप्त है

English

The king who is of great energy and devoted to kshatriya dharma should be content with a tenth part, and the others with a tenth less.

हिन्दी अर्थ

केवल त्वभिमानित्वाद् गुणेषु गुण उच्यते

English

There is no king not shared; there is no kingdom without a king; where there is no kingdom, how dharma? Where there is no dharma, how the supreme?

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्धयमानं महाप्राज्ञमबुद्धपरिवर्जनात्

English

The supreme dharma here, the purifier of king and kingdom, is that of which the earth is the fee: there is no horse sacrifice like it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्गुणं चेश्वर॑ नित्यमधिष्ठातारमेव च सांख्ययोगे च कुशला बुध्यन्ते परमैषिण:

English

I, Maithila, can tell these actions and sorrows of kingship by hundreds or even thousands.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुध्यमान प्रबुध्यन्ति गमयन्ति समं तदा

English

I have no attachment even to my own body; how to another's possession? You ought not to speak so to one such as me, freed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

परब्रह्म परमात्माके स्वरूपकी प्राप्ति हो जाती है बुध्यमानाप्रबुद्धानां पृथग्पृथगरिंदम

English

Surely you heard whole liberation from Panchashikha, with its means, with the Upanishad, with its appendages and its settlement?

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकत्वं दर्शनं चास्य नानात्वं चाप्यदर्शनम्

English

How then, king, is there attachment again in parasols and the like, for you freed from attachment, standing over the snares?

हिन्दी अर्थ

पञ्चविंशतिसर्ग तु तत्त्वमाहुर्मनीषिण: पश्याम्येतद्धि संदिग्धमेतयोर्व निदर्शनम्

English

I think what you heard was not heard; or what you heard was falsely heard; or it was heard like heard, and what you heard was another heard.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्थूलबुद्धया न पश्यामि तत्त्वमेतन्न संशय:

English

And yet you stand in these worldly designations; bound by attachment and obstruction, you are, to me, common.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथनमें तनिक भी संशय नहीं है तदप्यस्थिरबुद्धित्वात् प्रणष्टमिव मेडनघ

English

The entry I made into you by goodness: what harm was done to you by it, if you are wholly freed?

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्ध चाप्रतिबुद्धं च बुध्यमानं च तत्त्वतः

English

This is the rule in the dharmas of ascetics: dwelling in empty places; in occupying an empty place what is spoiled, and of whom?

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूर्णरूपसे समझना चाहता हूँ योगकृत्यं महाराज पृथगेव शृणुष्व मे

English

Not with hands, not with arms, not with feet and thighs, sinless one, not with any other limbs do I touch you, lord of men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

योगका अभ्यास न करे। शेष समयमें तत्परतापूर्वक योगका अभ्यास करना चाहिए तिष्ठन्तमजरं तं तु यत् तदुक्तं मनीषिभि:

English

By one born in a great family, modest, far-sighted, this should not be said in an assembly: what is done between two, whether good or bad.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निश्चितरूपसे जानना चाहिए

English

These brahmanas are teachers and these ministers are the best teachers; you too are a teacher of them; so is mutual respect.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूर्वरात्रेडपररात्रे धारयीत मनो55त्मनि पहले और पिछले भागमें मनको आत्मामें एकाग्र करे

English

So, having considered this and testing what is to be said and not said, this union of woman and man should not be spoken by you in the assembly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनो बुद्धया स्थिरं कृत्वा पाषाण इव निश्चल:

English

As water standing on a lotus leaf stays on the leaf without touching it, so I shall dwell in you, Maithila.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न च स्पर्श विजानाति न संकल्पयते मन: तदा प्रकृतिमापन्नं युक्तमाहुर्मनीषिण:

English

And if, though I do not touch, you know some touch of mine, how did that mendicant make your knowledge seedless?

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्लिड्रोडविचलश्नोर्ध्व न तिर्यग् गतिमाप्रुयात्

English

You, fallen from the household life and not having gained liberation hard to know, live in the middle of both, a wind-bag of liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हृदयस्थो न्तरात्मेति ज्ञेयो ज्ञस्तात मद्धिधै: अन्तरात्माका ही ज्ञान प्राप्त करना उचित है

English

For one freed, knowing, with the freed, in oneness and separateness, in the meeting of being and non-being, there arises no mixing of classes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणा ब्रह्म॒योनिस्था हयोनिममृतात्मकम्

English

In the separateness of classes and stages, for one who has seen the purpose and does not see separateness, knowing 'not one thing and another,' nothing goes on as one thing and another.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विमलो वितमस्कक्न निर्लिड्रोडलिड्गसंज्ञित: एवं पश्यं प्रपश्यन्ति आत्मानमजरं परम्

English

As a jasmine in the hand, milk in the jasmine, flies in the milk, we are separate supports by union of support and supported.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सांख्यज्ञानं प्रवक्ष्यामि परिसंख्यानदर्शनम्

English

There is no being of milk in the jasmine, nor of flies in the milk; these states themselves resort, not to another's support.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पज्चभूतान्यहड्कारादाहु: सांख्यात्मदर्शिन:

English

By the separateness of stages and the difference of classes and mutual separateness, how is there mixing of classes for you?

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्वानोंका कथन है पज्च चैव विशेषा वै तथा पउ्चेन्द्रियाणि च

English

I am not of the highest class by birth, nor a vaishya, nor lower; I am of your own class, king, of pure womb, unfallen.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सांख्ये विधिविधानज्ञा नित्यं सांख्यपथे रता:

English

There was a royal sage named Pradhana; it has come plainly to your ear; know me, born in his family, as Sulabha by name.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लीयन्ते प्रतिलोमानि सृज्यन्ते चान्तरात्मना गुणा गुणेषु सततं सागरस्योर्मयो यथा

English

Drona, Shatashringa and Vakradvara the mountain, in my ancestors' sacrifices, were piled with Maghavan.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकत्वं प्रलये चास्य बहुत्वं च यदासृजत्

English

Born in that family, I have no husband like me; trained in the dharmas of liberation, I roam alone, keeping the sage's vow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अधिष्ठातारमव्यक्तमस्याप्येतन्निदर्शनम् एकत्वं प्रलये चास्य बहुत्वं च प्रवर्तनात्

English

I am not disguised in a guise, not proud of another's wealth, not a maker of mixing of dharma; I keep my vow in my own dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तच्च क्षेत्र महानात्मा पठचविंशोडथधितिछति

English

I am not unsteady in my own promise, not speaking without consideration; I have not come to you without consideration, lord of the people.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अधिष्ठानादधिष्ठाता क्षेत्राणामिति न: श्रुतम् क्षेत्रमव्यक्तमित्युक्त ज्ञाता वै पजचविंशक:

English

Hearing of your mind turning to liberation, I, wishing good, came here to inquire about this liberation of yours.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्ञानमव्यक्तमित्युक्त ज्ञेयो वै पजचविंशक:

English

I do not say this as belonging to a party, neither of my side nor of another's; one freed is not freed, and one calm is not calm.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनीश्वरमतत्त्वं च तत्त्व तत् पजचविंशकम् सांख्या: प्रकुर्वते चैव प्रकृतिं च प्रचक्षते

English

As a mendicant would stay a night in an empty city house, so I shall stay this night in this body of yours.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यदा तु बुध्यते55त्मानं तदा भवति केवल: अर्थात् अपने विशुद्ध परब्रह्मरूपमें स्थित हो जाता है

English

Honoured by the gift of a seat and the hospitality of speech, I shall sleep well and, pleased, go tomorrow, Maithila."

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवमेतद् विजानन्त:ः साम्यतां प्रति यान्त्युत

English

Hearing these words, reasoned and meaningful, the king found nothing more to say after that.