Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेषां तु द्वारणालानामेक: शोकसमन्वित: पूजयित्वा यथान्यायमभिवाद्य कृताज्जलि:

English

mind. It is the Being to whom the body and the mind belong. It is represented as inactive, and as the all- seeing witness within the physical frame. It is a portion of the Supreme Soul.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुर: पुरोहितं कृत्वा सर्वाण्यन्त:पुराणि च

English

Leaving the eightfold tamas, he left the fivefold rajas, then the wise one left sattva; it seemed wonderful.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवतानां 38 (40402 हानसूयक: अनसूयुर्यथान्यायमाहिताग्निस्तथैव च

English

Then, in that eternal state, without qualities and without marks, he established himself in Brahman, like a blazing fire without smoke.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विहाय देहान्निर्मुक्तो निर्दन्द्ः प्रशमं गत:

English

Meteors fell, the directions burned, and earthquakes appeared in that moment; it seemed wonderful.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आत्मामें लगा देता है, उस समय वह ब्रह्मको प्राप्त हो जाता है समो भवति निर्दन्द्धो ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा

English

Trees shed their branches, mountains their peaks, and with crashing sounds the Himalaya seemed to split.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्मभावको प्राप्त हो जाता है

English

The thousand-rayed sun did not shine, the fire did not blaze, lakes and rivers and oceans were shaken.

हिन्दी अर्थ

काज्चनं चायसं चैव सुखं दुःखं तथैव च जीवितं मरणं चैव ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा

English

Vasava rained water, flavoured and fragrant, and the pure wind blew bearing divine scent.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथेन्द्रियाणि मनसा संयन्तव्यानि भिक्षुणा

English

He saw two incomparable divine peaks born of the Himalaya and Meru, joined, white and yellow, two lovely ones of gold and silver,

हिन्दी अर्थ

यच्चान्यदपि वेत्तव्यं तत्त्वतो वेद तद् भवान् इनके अतिरिक्त भी जो कुछ जानने योग्य तत्त्व है, उसे आप ठीक-ठीक जानते हैं

English

a hundred yojanas wide, across and upward, Bharata, lovely, standing toward the northern quarter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्रासीन: शुकस्तात मोक्षमेवान्वचिन्तयत्

English

emotions that appertain to worldly objects. Darkness means anger, lust, and such other mischievous

हिन्दी अर्थ

त॑ मुहूर्तादिवागम्य राज्ञो मन्‍्त्री कृताउ्जलि: तत्रान्तःपुरसम्बद्धं महच्चैत्ररथोपमम्

English

clear. The identity of the Understanding or intelligence with the senses and the mind may be allowed so far as the action of the three qualities in leading all of them to worldly attachments is concerned. But what is meant by the identity of the Understanding with all the objects it comprehends? Does Bhishma preach Idealism here? If nothing exists except as it exists in the Understanding, then, of course, with the extinction of the Understanding, all things would come to an end.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुकं प्रावेशयन्मन्त्री प्रमदावनमुत्तमम्

English

perceptions as only particular modifications of the mind. They denied the objective existence of the

हिन्दी अर्थ

त॑ चारुवेषा: सुश्रोण्यस्तरुण्य: प्रियदर्शना: संलापोल्लापकुशला नृत्यगीतविशारदा:

English

If Nilakantha be right, K.P. Singha must be wrong. Generally, however, it is the known incapacity of the ocean to transgress its continents that supplies poets with illustrations. Here, however, possibly, the rarity of the phenomenon, viz., the ocean's transgressing its continents, is used to illustrate the rare fact of the intelligence, succeeding by yoga power, in transcending the attributes of Rajas, Tamas and Sattwa.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पाद्यादीनि प्रतिग्राह्ू पूजया परयार्चयन्

English

that cause, which, as stated here, is Passion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्य भुक्तवतस्तात तदन्तःपुरकाननम् क्रीडन्त्यश्व हसन्त्यश्न गायन्त्यश्वापिता: शुभम्

English

soul the being to whom the mind, the senses, etc., all belong. Could the idea of the inactive and unsinning Soul have arisen from observation of the moral principle of Conscience which discriminates between right and wrong, and acts, therefore, as an impartial judge, or watches everything like an uninterested spectator? European moralists generally attribute two other functions to the Conscience, viz., impelling us to do the right and avoid the wrong, and approving when right is done and wrong avoided. But these functions may easily be attributed to some other principle. At any rate, when the question is one of nomenclature only, the last two functions may be taken away and the word Soul

हिन्दी अर्थ

आरणेयस्तु शुद्धात्मा नि:संदेह: स्वकर्मकृत्

English

Then, going above lovely Mandakini, with its flowering trees and groves, righteous-souled Shuka saw her.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्मै शय्यासन दिव्यं देवह रत्नभूषितम् पादशौचं तु कृत्वैव शुक: संध्यामुपास्य च

English

In her troops of apsarases, delighted, played and bathed, formless, in empty shapes, and unclothed they saw Shuka.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूर्वरात्रे तु तत्रासौ भूत्वा ध्यानपरायण:

English

Knowing him to be going on, his father, full of affection, took the highest path and followed behind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततो मुहूर्तादुत्थाय कृत्वा शौचमनन्तरम् तां च रात्रि नृपकुले वर्तयामास भारत

English

But Shuka, going above the wind, making his way through the sky, showing his power, then became all beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिरसा चार्घ्यमादाय गुरुपुत्रं समभ्यगात् स्पर्द्धयास्तरणसंस्तीर्ण सर्वतो भद्रमृद्धिमत्

English

Vyasa of great austerity rose and, in the twinkling of an eye, came to the place of Shuka's fall along the foremost path of great yoga.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रददौ गुरुपुत्राय शुकाय परमार्चितम्

English

He saw the mountain peak split in two where Shuka had gone; the sages told him his son's deed then.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पाद्य॑ निवेद्य प्रथममर्घ्य गां च न्यवेदयत् उन्हें एक गौ प्रदान की

English

Then by his father himself, with a long recitation, in a loud voice, he was cried to, "Shuka!", making the three worlds resound.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रतिगृहा तु तां पूजां जनकाद् द्विजसत्तम:

English

Shuka, having become all-pervading, the self of all, facing all sides, righteous-souled, replied "Bho!", making the sound resound.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पर्यपृच्छन्महातेजा राज्ञ: कुशलमव्ययम् अनुशिष्टस्तु तेनासौ निषसाद सहानुग:

English

Then uttering only the one-syllable cry "Bho!", the whole world, moving and unmoving, loudly echoed it back.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किमागमनमित्येवं पर्यपृच्छत पार्थिव:

English

From then till today, sounds uttered separately in mountain caves and slopes answer for Shuka.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विदेहराजो याज्यो मे जनको नाम विश्रुत: तन्मे धर्मभृतां श्रेष्ठ यथावद् वक्तुमहसि

English

Having shown his power and vanished, Shuka then, abandoning the qualities of sound and the rest, reached the supreme state.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लिये आया हूँ। आप मेरे प्रश्नोंका यथावत् उत्तर दें

English

Seeing the greatness of his son of boundless splendour, he sat on the mountain slope, thinking only of his son.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथं च मोक्ष: प्राप्तव्यो ज्ञानेन तपसाथवा ज्ञानसे अथवा तपस्यासे किस साधनसे प्राप्त किया जा सकता है?

English

Then on the bank of Mandakini the troops of apsarases playing, coming upon that sage, were all bewildered and senseless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृतोपनयनस्तात भवेद् वेदपरायण:

English

Some hid in the water, some went to thickets, some took up garments, seeing that best of sages.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तानेवाग्नीन् यथाशास्त्रमर्चयन्नतिथिप्रिय:

English

Realising their freedom and his own attachment, the sage was pleased and also ashamed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्दन्दो वीतरागात्मा ब्रह्माश्रमपदे वसेत् किमवश्यं निवस्तव्यमाश्रमेषु भवेत् त्रिषु

English

Surrounded by gods and gandharvas, honoured by troops of great sages, the blessed Shankara, bearing the Pinaka in hand, came to him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लिये शेष तीन आश्रमोंमें रहना आवश्यक है?

English

Mahadeva then spoke these soothing words to Krishna Dvaipayana, tormented with grief for his son:

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथा वेदार्थतत्त्वेन ब्रूहि मे त्वं जनाधिप वास्तविक सिद्धान्तके अनुसार क्या करना उचित है? यह आप मुझे बताइये

English

"You chose from me of old a son equal in power to fire, earth, water, wind and space.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न विना गुरुसम्बन्ध॑ ज्ञानस्याधिगम: स्मृत:

English

Such was he born, gathered by your austerity and by my power, pure, made of the splendour of Brahman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रकार सदगुरुसे सम्बन्ध हुए बिना ज्ञानकी प्राप्ति नहीं हो सकती विज्ञाय कृतकृत्यस्तु तीर्णस्तदुभयं त्यजेत्

English

He has attained the supreme goal, hard to reach even for gods with unmastered senses; brahmana sage, why do you grieve for him?

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूर्वराचरितो धर्मश्नातुराश्रम्यसंकट:

English

As long as the mountains stand and as long as the oceans stand, so long will your fame, with your son, be imperishable.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आश्रमोंसहित वर्णधर्मोका पालन करते थे हित्वा शुभाशुभं॑ कर्म मोक्षो नामेह लभ्यते

English

By my grace, great sage, you will always see in this world a shadow like your son, never leaving you on any side."

हिन्दी अर्थ

आसक्तिका परित्याग करनेसे यहाँ मोक्षकी प्राप्ति होती है

English

Consoled by the blessed Rudra himself, Bharata, the sage returned seeing the shadow, with supreme joy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्रिष्वाश्रमेषु को न्वर्थो भवेत् परमभीप्सत: सम्पश्यन्नोपलिप्येत जले वारिचरो यथा

English

Thus, bull of the Bharatas, I have told you at length the birth and goal of Shuka, which you asked me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मोक्षशास्त्रके ज्ञाता द्विज सदा याद रखते हैं स्वयं च शक्‍्यते द्रष्टं सुसमाहितचेतसा

English

The divine sage Narada told me this of old, O king, and the great yogi Vyasa too, at every step of their talks.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्न नेच्छति न दवेष्टि ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा

English

He who bears this holy Itihasa, joined with the dharma and purpose of liberation, intent on peace, would reach the supreme goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गुरोस्तव प्रसादेन तव चैवोपशिक्षया

English

applied to indicate the Conscience as the faculty of discrimination only.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मदगुभि: खग्जरीटैश्न विचित्रैर्जीवजीवकै: चत्वारो लोकपालाश्ष देवा: सर्षिगणास्तथा

English

[Yudhishthira said:] Whence for him is the fixed heaven, whence the supreme highest good? By what rite should one offer to the gods and likewise to the ancestors?

हिन्दी अर्थ

भगवान् पावकस्तत्र स्वयं तिष्ठति वीर्यवान्

English

And what goal would a freed one reach, and what is the nature of liberation? One gone to heaven, what should he do, so as not to fall from heaven?

हिन्दी अर्थ

मुझे तुम्हारा कौन-सा प्रिय कार्य करना है?” पुन: प्राउजलयो भूत्वा प्रणम्य शिरसा गुरुम्

English

Who is the god of the gods and the father of the fathers, and what is higher than that? Tell me, grandfather.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथा हि कनकं शुद्ध तापच्छेदनिकर्षणै:

English

[Bhishma said:] You ask me, sinless one, a hidden question, one who knows questions; it cannot be answered by reasoning even in hundreds of years.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न नियोज्याक्ष व: शिष्या अनियोगे महाभये सर्वस्तरतु दुर्गाणि सर्वो भद्राणि पश्यतु

English

Except by the grace of a god, king, or by the tradition of knowledge; this account is deep and must be explained, slayer of foes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वेदस्याध्ययनं होदं तच्च कार्य महत् स्मृतम्

English

On this they recount this ancient Itihasa, the conversation of Narada and the sage Narayana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कार्य माना गया है। इसे अवश्य करना चाहिए यश्चाधर्मेण विब्रूयाद् यश्चारर्मेण मृच्छति

English

For Narayana, the self of all, the eternal, fourfold in form, was born as Dharma's son; so my father told me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपकुर्याच्च शिष्याणामेतच्च हृदि वो भवेत्

English

In the Krita age, great king, long ago in the Svayambhuva interval, Nara and Narayana, and Hari and Krishna.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्ञानं दिव्यं ममापीदं तेनासि विदितो मम आपकी स्थितिको ठीक-ठीक समझ गया हूँ

English

(darkness). What is meant by this verse is that such a person transcends the qualities instead of the qualities transcending him and his acts.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अधिकं तव चैश्वर्य तच्च त्वं नावबुध्यसे

English

That vehicle has eight wheels, charming, joined with beings; there those two first lords of the world, lean, with veins showing,

हिन्दी अर्थ

इस बातका पता नहीं है उत्पन्ने चापि विज्ञाने नाधिगच्छति तां गतिम्

English

hard to behold even for the gods by austerity and splendour; he whom they favour deserves to see the two gods.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विमुच्य हृदयग्रन्थीनासादयति तां गतिम्

English

Surely, urged by the heart's desire with their consent, Narada fell from the peak of the great mountain Meru onto Gandhamadana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्यवसायादूते ब्रह्मुन्नासादयति तत्परम् परमात्मभावको नहीं प्राप्त होता है

English

A very great being, he roamed all the worlds; swift, he came, O king, to that place, the hermitage at Badari.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नौत्सुक्यं नृत्यगीतेषु न राग उपजायते

English

At the time of their daily rites curiosity arose in him: "This is the whole abode in which the worlds are established.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आस्थितं परमं मार्गमक्षयं तमनामयम् तस्मिन् वै वर्तसे ब्रह्मन् किमन्यत् परिपृच्छसि

English

Always asuras, gandharvas, sages and kinnaras, lickers of the tongue... this one form was born first and then fourfold.

हिन्दी अर्थ

षड्विंशत्यधिकत्रिशततमोध्याय:

English

The great line of Dharma's family has been increased by these. Ah, today Dharma is favoured here by these gods, by Nara and Narayana, and by Krishna Hari.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शैशिरं गिरिमुद्दिश्य सधर्मा मातरिश्वन: हिमवन्तमियादू् द्रष्टू सिद्धचारणसेवितम्

English

There Krishna and Hari, for some other reason, stand foremost in dharma and established in austerity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किन्नराणां सहसैश्व भूड़जैस्तथैव च

English

These two are the supreme abode; what is their daily rite? They are fathers of all beings and glorious deities; which deity do they worship, or which ancestors, these two of great mind?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋषिगण सम्पूर्ण जगत॒के हितकी कामनासे वहाँ सदा आते रहते हैं

English

Thus reflecting in his mind with devotion to Narayana, he suddenly appeared near the two gods.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विष्णुना यत्र पुत्रार्थे तपस्तप्तं महात्मना शक्तिन््यस्ता क्षितितले त्रैलोक्यमवमन्य वै

English

When the offerings to gods and ancestors had been made, he was looked upon by them and duly honoured as the scripture prescribes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

योअन्योस्ति मत्तो5भ्यधिको विप्रा यस्याधिकं प्रिया:

English

Seeing that great, unprecedented marvel of extended rites, the blessed sage Narada sat down, greatly pleased.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सोभ्युद्धरत् त्विमां शक्तिमथवा कम्पयत्विति अथ देवगणं सर्व सम्भ्रान्तेन्द्रियमानसम्

English

Looking at Narayana with a calm inner self, he bowed to Mahadeva and spoke these words:

हिन्दी अर्थ

किं त्वत्र सुकृतं कार्य भवेदिति विचिन्तयन्

English

"You are sung in the Vedas with the Puranas, with their limbs and subsidiary limbs, unborn, eternal, the creator, held to be the unsurpassed nectar; in you, all this world, past and future, is established.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सम्प्रगृह्म विशुद्धात्मा शक्ति प्रज्वलितां तदा काननोंसहित सारी पृथ्वी काँप उठी

English

All four stages of life, god, rooted in the householder's life, worship you day after day, standing in many forms.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्कन्दका तिरस्कार नहीं होने दिया। उन्हें अपमानसे बचा लिया

English

You are father and mother of all the world, its eternal teacher; whom, then, do you worship today as god, whom as father? We do not know."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तां कम्पयित्वा भगवान् प्रह्नलादमिदमब्रवीत् कार्य दूसरा कोई नहीं कर सकेगा”

English

[The Blessed One said:] This should not be spoken, yet it is to be told, the eternal secret of the self; to you, Brahmana, being devoted, I shall tell it as it is.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सोअमृष्यमाणस्तद्वाक्यं समुद्धरणनिश्चित:

English

That which is subtle, unknowable, unmanifest, unmoving, fixed, free of senses, of objects of the senses and of all beings,

हिन्दी अर्थ

पावकेन परिक्षिप्तं दीप्पता यस्य चाश्रमम् न तत्र शक्यते गन्तुं यक्षराक्षसदानवै:

English

that is the inner self of beings, called the knower of the field; beyond the three qualities, it is conceived as the person; from it the unmanifest was born, threefold in quality, best of the twice-born.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दिव्यं वर्षमहस्र हि पादेनैकेन तिकछत: ऐन्द्रीं तु दिशभास्थाय शैलराजस्य धीमतः

English

The unmanifest standing in manifest being, that imperishable nature, know that as the womb of us two, which is both being and non-being; for it is worshipped by us two in the rites for gods and ancestors.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वेदानध्यापयामास व्यास: शिष्यान् महामति:

English

There is no other beyond it, father, god or twice-born; it is to be known as the self of us two; therefore we worship it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जैमिनिं च महाप्राज्ञं पैलं चापि तपस्विनम् तत्राश्रमपदं रम्यं ददर्श पितुरुत्तमम्

English

By it, Brahmana, this limit that supports the world was laid down: that the rites for gods and ancestors are to be done; such is its command.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पिताके उस रमणीय एवं उत्तम आश्रमको देखा

English

Brahma, Sthanu, Manu, Daksha, Bhrigu, Dharma, Tapas, Dama, Marichi, Angiras, Atri, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu,

हिन्दी अर्थ

योगयुक्त महात्मानं यथा बाणं गुणच्युतम् यथोपजोष॑ तैश्वापि समागच्छन्महामुनि:

English

Vasishtha, Parameshthi, Vivasvan and Soma, and Kardama as well, and Krodha and Vikrita, who are named,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुको जनकराजेन संवादं प्रीतमानस:

English

twenty-one arose, who are remembered as the Prajapatis; they worship the eternal limit of that god.

हिन्दी अर्थ

का-सारा वृत्तान्त अपने पितासे कह सुनाया उवास हिमवत्पृष्ठे पाराशर्यो महामुनि:

English

Knowing in truth the rites for gods and ancestors as his, the best of the twice-born also know what has come to them by themselves.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हुए हिमालयके शिखरपर ही रहने लगे

English

Whatever embodied beings even in heaven bow to him, by his grace go to the goal whose fruit he has ordained.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अथोचुस्ते तदा व्यासं शिष्या: प्राज्जलयो गुरुम् एकं त्विदानीमिच्छामो गुरुणाग्रहं कृतम्

English

Those who are free of the seventeen qualities and of action, having given up the fifteen parts, are certainly liberated.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उच्यतामिति तद् वत्सा यद् वः कार्य प्रियं मया

English

The goal of the freed, Brahmana, is conceived as the knower of the field; he is said to be all-pervading and without qualities.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिष्य प्रसिद्ध न हो। यहाँ हमलोगोंपर इतनी ही कृपा कीजिये

English

He is seen by the yoga of knowledge, and we two came forth from him; thus knowing, we worship that eternal self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इह वेदा: प्रतिष्ठेरन्नेष न: कांक्षितो वर: पराशरात्मजो धीमान् परलोकार्थचिन्तक:

English

The Vedas and the stages of life, standing in many bodies, worship that primal one with devotion, and he gives them their goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणाय सदा देयं ब्रह्म शुश्रूषवे तथा

English

But those in the world who are formed by him and stand in single-minded devotion have this in addition: that they enter him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भवन्तो बहुला: सन्तु वेदो विस्तार्यतामयम् एते शिष्यगुणा: सर्वे विज्ञातव्या यथार्थत:

English

Thus this hidden teaching has been told to you, Narada, with devotion and love, brahmana sage, and heard by you with devotion to us.