अध्याय 12
श्लोक 40.1
[वैषम्पायन] ततः कुन्तीसुतॊ राजा गतमन्युर गतज्वरः काञ्चने पराङ्मुखॊ हृष्टॊ नयषीदत परमासने
[vaiṣampāyana] tataḥ kuntīsutò rājā gatamanyura gatajvaraḥ kāñcane parāṅmukhò hṛṣṭò nayaṣīdata paramāsane
हिन्दी अर्थ
महाप्रस्थानमातिष्ठ न् मुच्यते सर्वकिल्बिषै:
English
ashes, nothing of mine will be burnt!' As a person on the hill-top looketh down upon men on the plain below, so he that has got up on the top of the mansion of knowledge, seeth people grieving for things that do not call for grief. He, however, that is of foolish understanding, does not see this. He who, casting his eyes on visible things, really seeth them, is said to have eyes and understanding. The faculty called understanding is so called because of the knowledge and comprehension it gives of unknown and incomprehensible things. He who is acquainted with the words of persons that are learned, that are of cleansed souls, and that have attained to a state of Brahma, succeeds in obtaining great honours. When one seeth creatures of infinite diversity to be all one and the same and to be but diversified emanations from the same essence, one is then said to have attained Brahma. 5 Those who reach this high