Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

हितचिन्तक श्रीहरि तुम्हारे आश्रय हों 5भयदो मखभागहरोडस्तु शरणं स ते

English

from me in return a gift equal to what he gave me, thou shalt have to judge patiently and set us both on the right track.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

ईश्वरो हि जगत्स्रष्टा प्रभुनोतियणो विराट्

English

[Janamejaya said:] Those in the world who have burnt their fuel, free of merit and sin: for them you have indicated the goal that has come down by tradition.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सृजन्तं प्रथम वेदां श्वतुरश्चारुविग्रहान् रसां विविशतुस्तुर्णमुदक्पूर्वे महोदधौ

English

In the fourth state they go to the Supreme Person; but the single-minded go to the highest state.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ते मे वेदा हताश्चक्षुरन्धो जातो5स्मि जागृहि

English

Surely this single-minded dharma is best and dear to Narayana, since they go to the imperishable Hari without going the three paths.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त॑ दृष्टवा दानवेन्द्री तो महाहासममुख्चताम् अयं स पुरुष: श्वेत: शेते निद्रामुपागत:

English

The brahmins who rightly stand in the Vedas with the Upanishads, who recite by rule, and those who follow the dharma of ascetics,

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्योतिषां च परं रूप॑ स्मृतं नारायणात्मकम्

English

I know the goal of single-minded men to be better than theirs. By what god or sage was this dharma told?

हिन्दी अर्थ

पठन्ति विधिमास्थाय ये चापि यतिधर्मिण: उन्हींको प्राप्त होती है, जो भगवानके अनन्य भक्त होते हैं

English

What is the conduct of the single-minded, and when was it produced, lord? Cut this doubt of mine; my curiosity is great.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुपर्णाच्चाप्यधिगतो धर्म एब सनातन:

English

[Vaishampayana said:] When the armies stood ready in the battle of the Kurus and Pandavas, and Arjuna was dispirited, it was sung by the blessed one himself.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रजासर्गकरो ब्रह्मा तमुवाच जगत्पति:

English

The coming and the going were told to you by me before; this dharma is deep, hard to know for the unpractised.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गतिमात्मगां सुकृतिनामृषीणाम्

English

"The king said, 'Why do you not accept payment that is sought to be made of the debt that is owing to thee? Do not delay, but accept payment of what thou knowest is thy due.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्धया यतात्मभिरिदं सनातनम् षट्चत्वारिंशदधिकत्रिशततमो5ध्याय:

English

"Vikrita said, 'This one says that he owes me. I say unto him that what I gave I gave away. He doth not, therefore, owe me anything. Let him go whithersoever he wishes.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

जन्म धर्मगृहे चैव नरनारायणात्मकम्

English

"The king said, 'He is ready to give thee. Thou., however, art unwilling to take. This does not seem proper to me. I think that thou deservest punishment for this. There is little doubt in this.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

था, इस बातको भी जान लिया प्रवृत्ती च निवृत्ती च यो यथा परिकल्पित:

English

"Vikrita said, 'I made a gift to him, O royal sage! How can I take it back? If I am guilty in this, do thou pronounce the punishment, O puissant one.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

हव्यकव्यभुजो विष्णुरुदक्पूर्वे महोदधौ

English

" Virupa said, 'If thou refusest to take when I am ready to give, this king will certainly punish thee, for he is an upholder of justice.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

तच्च दृष्टं भगवता ब्रह्मणा परमेछ्ठिना रूप॑ प्रभावं महतामपूर्व धीमतां वर

English

"Vikrita said, 'Solicited by him I gave him what was my own. How shall I now retake that? Thou mayst go away. Thou hast my leave.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

करके ब्रह्माजीने क्या किया?

English

"The Brahmana said, 'Thou hast heard, O king, the words of these two. Do thou take without scruple that which I have pledged myself to give thee.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथयस्वोत्तममते महापुरुषनिर्मितम् कथयिष्यामि ते सर्व पुराणं वेदसम्मितम्

English

"The king said, 'This matter is, indeed, as deep (in importance) as an unfathomable pit. How will the pertinacity of this Reciter end? If I do not accept what has been given by this Brahmana, how shall I avoid being stained with a great sin?' The royal sage then said unto the two disputants, 'Go ye both, having won your respective objects. I should see that kingly duties, vested in me, may not become futile. It is settled that kings should observe the duties laid down for them. To my misfortune, however, the course of duties prescribed for Brahmanas has possessed my wretched self.' l

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्र॒ुत्वाश्चशिरसो मूर्ति देवस्प हरिमेधस:

English

"The Brahmana said, 'Accept, O king! I owe thee. Thou didst solicit it, and I also have become pledged (to give thee). If, however, thou refuse to take, O monarch, I shall without doubt curse thee.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

यत्तद् दर्शितवान् ब्रह्मा देवं हयशिरोधरम् यत् किंचिदिह लोके वै देहसत्त्वं विशाम्पते

English

"The king said, 'Fie on kingly duties, the settled conclusion about the operation of which is even such. I should, however, take what thou givest, for only this reason, viz., rendering the two courses of duty exactly equal. 2 This is my hand, that was never before (stretched forth for acceptance of gifts),

हिन्दी अर्थ

भूतप्रलयमत्यन्तं शृणुष्व नृपसत्तम ज्योतिर्भूते जले चापि लीने ज्योतिषि चानिले

English

This vow, recited in the reading of the Rig Veda, is hard to practise; this eternal dharma was also gained from Suparna.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्यक्ते मनसि संलीने व्यक्ते चाव्यक्ततां गते

English

It was made known by Vayu, best of the two-footed, the life of the world; it was gained from Vayu by sages who eat the remnants.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तम एवाभवत् सर्व न प्राज्ायत किंचन तद्विश्चभावसंज्ञान्तं पौरुषी तनुमाश्रितम्

English

From them the great ocean gained this excellent dharma; then he vanished again, absorbed in Narayana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रकट करता है और विराट् शरीरका आश्रय लेकर रहता है

English

Listen to the recounting, tiger among men, of when there was again a creation, born of the ear, of the great Brahma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदव्यक्तमिति ज्ञेयं त्रिगुणं नृपसत्तम त्रिगुणमय अव्यक्त जानना चाहिए

English

Wishing to create the world, the god Hari Narayana himself thought of the Person, the maker of the world's creation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अप्स्वेव शयनं चक्रे निद्रायोगमुपागतः

English

Then, as he thought, from his ears a Person issued, Brahma the maker of creation, and the lord of the world spoke to him:

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्य चिन्तयत: सृष्टि महानात्मगुण: स्मृत: हिरण्यगर्भो भगवान् सर्वलोकपितामह:

English

"Create all creatures, son, from the mouth and from the feet; I shall ordain your good, strength and splendour, of good vows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकस्तत्रा भवद् बिन्दुर्मध्वाभो रुचिरप्रभ:

English

And take from me the dharma named Satvata; by that establish the whole Krita age by rule."

हिन्दी अर्थ

कठिनस्त्वपरो बिन्दु: कैटभो राजसस्तु सः बलवन्तौ गदाहस्तौ पद्मनालानुसारिणौ

English

Then Brahma bowed to the god of Hari's wisdom and received the best dharma with its secret and compendium, together with the Aranyaka, issued from Narayana's mouth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपने हाथोंमें गदा लिये कमलनालका अनुसरण करते हुए आगे बढ़ने लगे

English

Having taught the dharma to Brahma of boundless splendour, the Krita-age dharma called action without desire, he went beyond darkness to where the unmanifest stands.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततो वचनमीशानं प्राह वेहैर्विनाकृत:

English

Then the boon-giving god, Brahma, grandfather of the world, created all worlds, moving and unmoving.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वेदा मे परमं धाम वेदा मे ब्रह्म चोत्तरम् अन्धकारा हि मे लोका जाता वेहैर्विनाकृता:

English

Then the lovely Krita age began, at the beginning; and the Satvata dharma stood pervading the worlds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लिये सम्पूर्ण लोक अन्धकारमय हो गये हैं

English

By that primal dharma Brahma, the creator of the worlds, worshipped the lord of gods Hari Narayana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अहो बत महद् दुःखं वेदनाशनजं मम को हि शोकार्णवे मग्नं मामितो5द्य समुद्धरेत्

English

For the establishment of dharma, he then taught it to Manu Svarochisha, wishing the good of the worlds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इत्येवं भाषमाणस्य ब्रह्मणो नृपसत्तम

English

Then Svarochisha's son Shankhapada, king, was himself taught unperturbed by the all-pervading lord of the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अहं प्रसादजस्तुभ्यं लोकधाम स्वयम्भुव: चाक्षुषं वै द्वितीयं मे जन्म चासीत् पुरातनम्

English

Then Shankhapada taught his own son, Sudharman, guardian of the quarter, Bharata; then he vanished again, and the Treta age came.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्वत्त: श्रवणजं चापि चतुर्थ जन्म मे विभो

English

In Brahma's nose-born birth long ago, the god Hari Narayana, the lotus-eyed lord, himself brought up this dharma, best of kings, as Brahma watched.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अण्डजं चापि मे जन्म त्वत्त: षछ्॑ विनिर्मितम् आपके द्वारा ब्रह्माण्डसे उत्पन्न किया गया। वह मेरा छठा जन्म था

English

The blessed Sanatkumara then studied it, king; and from Sanatkumara the Prajapati Virana studied this dharma at the start of the Krita age, tiger of the Kurus.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्गे सर्गे हाहं पुत्रस्तव त्रिगुणवर्जित

English

And Virana, having studied it, gave it to Manu Raucya; Raucya to his pure son of good vows and good wisdom.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रत्येक कल्पमें आपका पुत्र होकर प्रकट होता हूँ त्वमीश्वरः स्वभावश्च स्वयम्भू: पुरुषोत्तम

English

Then he gave it to the righteous guardian of the quarter named Kukshi; then it vanished again, issued from Narayana's mouth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवं स्तुत: स भगवान् पुरुष: सर्वतोमुख: ऐश्वर्येण प्रयोगेण द्वितीयां तनुमास्थित:

English

In the egg-born birth, again, this dharma arose again from Narayana's mouth for Brahma, whose womb is Hari.

हिन्दी अर्थ

केशाश्वास्याभवन् दीर्घा रवेरंशुसमप्रभा:

English

Taken by Brahma, O king, and duly applied, it was taught to the sages named Barhishads, king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गड़ा सरस्वती श्रोण्यौ भ्रुवावास्तां महोदधी ३० कारस्त्वथ संस्कारो विद्युज्जि्ना च निर्मिता

English

From the Barhishads it passed to the twice-born Jyeshtha, master of the end of the Sama Veda, famous by name, Hari fixed on the Jyeshtha Sama vow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एतद्धयशिर: कृत्वा नानामूर्तिभिरावृतम्

English

From Jyeshtha it passed to King Avikampana, and then, O king, this dharma of the lord Hari vanished.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रसां पुनः प्रविष्ट क्ष योगं परममास्थित: ओर फैल गयी, जो समस्त प्राणियोंके लिये गुणकारक थी

English

In this seventh birth of Brahma, the lotus-born, O king, this dharma was told there by Narayana himself.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततस्तावसुरौ कृत्वा वेदान्ू समयबन्धनान्

English

To the pure grandfather, at the start of the age, the bearer of the world, and the grandfather long ago gave this dharma to Daksha.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एतस्मिन्नन्तरे राजन् देवो हयशिरोधर: प्रादाच्च ब्रह्मणे भूयस्ततः स्वां प्रकृतिं गत:

English

Then Daksha gave it to the eldest of his daughter's sons, best of kings, to Aditya Savitri's eldest, and Vivasvan took it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुनराजम्मतुस्तत्र वेगितौ पश्यतां च तो

English

At the start of the Treta age Vivasvan again gave it to Manu, and Manu gave it to his son Ikshvaku for the good of the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ददृशाते च पुरुषं तमेवादिकरं प्रभुम् भूयो5प्यमितविक्रान्तं निद्रायोगमुपागतम्

English

Told by Ikshvaku, it stays pervading the worlds, and at the end of the age, O king, it will go again to Narayana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शयने नागभोगाढ्ये ज्वालामालासमावृते

English

The dharma of those with vows, which I told you before, best of kings, was ordained in the Hari Gita in a concise rule.

हिन्दी अर्थ

युद्धार्थिनौ हि विज्ञाय विबुद्धः पुरुषोत्तम:

English

This dharma with its secret and compendium was received by Narada directly from the lord of the world Narayana, O king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अथ युद्धे समभवत् तयोनारायणस्य वै शोकापनयनं चक्रे ब्रह्मण: पुरुषोत्तम:

English

Thus this great dharma, primal and eternal, O king, hard to know and hard to practise, is always borne by the Satvatas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्ममे स तदा लोकान् कृत्स्नान् स्थावरजड्रमान्

English

By this knowledge of dharma, with well-applied action joined with non-violence and dharma, Hari the lord is pleased.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्रैवान्तर्दधे देवों यत एवागतो हरि: पुनः प्रवृत्तिधर्मार्थ तामेव विदधे तनुम्

English

The division is sometimes of one arrangement, sometimes called twofold, and counted threefold, and seen fourfold.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उन्होंने पुनः प्रवृत्तिधर्मका प्रचार करनेके लिये ही उस शरीरको प्रकट किया था

English

Hari alone is the knower of the field, free of mine-ness and parts, and the soul in all beings, beyond the qualities of the five elements.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पौराणमेतत् प्रख्यातं रूपं वरदमैश्वरम् रूप पुरातन एवं पुराण-प्रसिद्ध है

English

And mind is known, O king, as the mover of the five senses; he is the treasure of the world, the wise, the maker of creation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न तस्याध्ययनं नाशमुपगच्छेत् कदाचन

English

He is the non-doer and the doer, the effect and the cause; as he wishes, king, so the imperishable Person plays.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुराणं वेदसमितं यन्मां त्वं परिपृच्छसि तपो नारायणपरं नारायणपरा गति:

English

This single-minded dharma has been told to you, best of kings, by me through my teacher's grace, hard to know for the unpractised; single-minded men are rare, O king, and many.

हिन्दी अर्थ

परम फल भगवान् नारायण ही हैं तथा नारायणकी प्राप्ति ही सर्वोत्तम गति है

English

If the world were filled with the single-minded, non-violent, knowers of the self, delighting in the good of all beings, then the Krita age would come, free of wishes and action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नारायणपरो धर्म: पुनरावृत्तिदुर्लभ: नारायणात्मको गन्धो भूमौ श्रेष्ठतम: स्मृत:

English

Thus the blessed Vyasa, my teacher, O lord of men, best of the twice-born, knower of dharma, told it to the king of dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नारायणात्मकश्चैव शब्द आकाशसम्भव: नारायणके ही अश्रित हैं

English

In the presence of the sages, O king, as Krishna and Bhishma listened, and Narada of great austerity had earlier told it to him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नारायणपरं सांख्यं योगो नारायणात्मक:

English

The supreme god, Brahman, white, moon-bright, unfallen, where the single-minded go, with Narayana as their supreme refuge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वभावश्चैव कर्माणि हैवं येषां च कारणम् तत्त्वं जिज्ञासमानानां हेतुभि: सर्वतोमुखै:

English

[Janamejaya said:] If this dharma of many kinds is practised by the awakened, why do other brahmins, standing in various vows, not practise it?

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनीषितं विजानाति केशवो न तु तस्य ते

English

[Vaishampayana said:] Three natures, O king, are made in the bonds of bodies: sattvic, rajasic and tamasic, Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दानानि च प्रयच्छन्ति तप्यन्ते च तपो महत् सर्वभूतकृतावासो वासुदेवेति चोच्यते

English

In the bonds of bodies, lifter of the Kuru line, the best person is the sattvic, tiger among men, who is resolved on liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पश्यन्ति नित्यं पुरुष गुणाधिकम्

English

Here too he knows the Person present in Brahman; liberation is supremely Narayana, so the sattvic is remembered.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सप्तचत्वारिंशद्धिकत्रिशततमो ध्याय: तेषां त्वयाभिनिर्दिष्टा पारम्पर्यागता गति:

English

He attains what he wishes, contemplating the Supreme Person, with single-minded devotion constantly, intent on Narayana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकान्तिनस्तु पुरुषा गच्छन्ति परमं पदम्

English

For whatever wise ascetics long for liberation, whose thirst is cut, Hari carries their winning and keeping.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राप्त कर लेते हैं अगत्वा गतयस्तिस््रो यद् गच्छत्यव्ययं हरिम्

English

The person whom, as he is born, Madhusudana sees is to be known as sattvic and is certain of liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चौथी गतिमें पहुँचकर अविनाशी श्रीहरिको प्राप्त कर लेते हैं

English

Dharma practised single-mindedly is equal to Sankhya and yoga; in liberation of Narayana's nature, they go to the highest goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एतन्मे संशयं छिन्धि परं कौतूहलं हि मे

English

A man seen by Narayana becomes awakened; thus, by the will of the self, O king, the awakened is not born.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भगवानने उन्हें गीतामें इस धर्मका उपदेश दिया गहनो ह्ोष धर्मों वै दुर्विज्ञेयोडकृतात्मभि:

English

Rajasic and tamasic natures are remembered as mixed; the person of that nature, lord of men, when being born, joined with marks of action, Hari himself does not regard.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अजितात्मा पुरुषोंके लिये दुर्गम है

English

Brahma, grandfather of the world, sees him as he is born, a man overwhelmed by rajas and tamas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धार्यते स्वयमीशेन राजन् नारायणेन च है। स्वयं जगदीश्वर भगवान् नारायण ही इस धर्मको धारण करते हैं

English

Gods and sages standing in sattva, best of kings, by choice, lacking subtle sattva, are then remembered as modified.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋषिमध्ये महाभाग: शृण्वतो: कृष्णभीष्मयो:

English

[Janamejaya said:] How would the modified person go to the Supreme Person?

हिन्दी अर्थ

था। उस समय श्रीकृष्ण और भीष्म भी इस विषयको सुन रहे थे यथा तत् कथित तत्र नारदेन तथा शृणु

English

[Vaishampayana said:] Joined with very subtle sattva, joined with the three letters, the person, inactive, goes to the twenty-fifth Person.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्मण: पृथिवीपाल तदा नारायण: स्वयम्

English

Thus Sankhya and yoga, the Veda and Aranyaka are one; these are mutual limbs, and the Pancharatra is told. This is the dharma of the single-minded, of Narayana's highest nature.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वैखानसे भ्य: सोमस्तु तत: सोडच्तर्दथे पुन: अन्तर्दधे ततो भूयस्तस्य देवस्थ मायया

English

As floods of water issued from the ocean enter it again, O king, so these great floods of knowledge enter Narayana again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्रैष धर्म: सम्भूत: स्वयं नारायणान्नूप

English

This Satvata dharma has been told to you, kinsman of the Yadavas; practise it duly if you can, Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

साक्षात् नारायणसे ही यह धर्म प्रकट हुआ तपसा वै सुतप्तेन दमेन नियमेन च

English

Thus the greatly fortunate Narada told my teacher the imperishable single-minded goal of the white ascetics.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वायो: सकाशात् प्राप्तश्ष ऋषिभिर्विघसाशिभि: अन्तर्दधे ततो भूयो नारायणसमाहित:

English

Vyasa told it with affection to the wise son of Dharma; this same is what has been told to you by me, issued from my teacher.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्मण: पुरुषव्यात्र तत्र कीर्तयत: शूणु

English

Thus this dharma is hard to practise, best of kings; as you, so others, bewildered, do not follow it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चिन्तयामास पुरुष॑ जगत्सर्गकरं प्रभुम् चिन्तन किया, जो संसारकी सृष्टि करनेमें पूर्णतः समर्थ हो

English

Krishna alone is the cherisher and the bewilderer of the worlds, O lord of men, the destroyer, and the cause.