Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

पप्रच्छ राजा प्रह्मादो बुद्धिमान् बुद्धिसम्मतम्

English

grant thee permission, O regenerate one! Tell me what thou pleasest, I shall certainly obey the instructions thou wilt give me, O Brahman,'

हिन्दी अर्थ

उत्पत्तिनिधनज्ञस्थ कि कार्यमवशिष्यते

English

[Bhishma said:] "Here too they cite this ancient tale, by whose conduct the knower of conduct went to great happiness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रासादे चापि मे शय्या कदाचिदुपपद्यते

English

Janaka, called Janadeva, lord of men in Mithila, was devoted to reflecting on the dharmas of the state after death.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करनेवालोंको देखकर मैं पवित्रभावसे इस आजगरबव्रतका आचरण करता हूँ

English

A hundred teachers ever lived in his house, showing various dharmas, disputants of many heresies.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रथेन पातयामास श्रीमान् दृप्तस्तपस्विनम्

English

Regarding the determination of existence after death and birth after death, he stood by tradition and was mostly not satisfied about the truth of the self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मरिष्याम्यधनस्येह जीवितार्थों न विद्यते

English

There the great sage Panchashikha, son of Kapila, roaming the whole earth, came also to Mithila.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इन्द्र: शूगालरूपेण बभाषे लुब्धभानसम्

English

In the determination of knowledge of truth of all the dharmas of renunciation, with his purpose accomplished, beyond the pairs, his doubts destroyed,

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनुष्यत्वे च विप्रत्व॑ं सर्व एवाभिनन्दति

English

they say he was one of the sages whom desire had settled among men, seeking eternal, utter happiness, so very hard to find.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणत्वकी प्रशंसा तो सभी लोग करते हैं

English

Him whom the Sankhyas call Kapila, the supreme sage, Prajapati: I think he amazes people in that form himself.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्धिमान् राजा प्रह्नादने उससे इस प्रकार पूछा

English

"The sage said, 'Ascertaining the merits and faults of thy servants, as also the: dangers thou incurrest at their hands, I have come to thee, impelled by my devotion, for representing everything to thee. The teachers (of mankind) have of old declared what the curses are, O king, of those that serve others. The lot of those that serve the king is very painful and wretched. He who has any connection with kings is to have connection with snakes of virulent poison. Kings have many friends as also many enemies. They that serve kings have to fear all of them. Every moment, again, they have fear from the king himself, O monarch. A person serving the king cannot (with impunity) be guilty of heedlessness in doing the king's work. Indeed, a servant who desires to win prosperity should never display heedlessness in the discharge of his duties. His heedlessness may move the king to wrath, and such wrath may bring down destruction (on the servant). Carefully learning how to behave himself, one should sit in the presence of the king as he should in the presence of a blazing fire. Prepared to lay down life itself at every moment, one should serve the king attentively, for the king is all-powerful and master

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुवाक् प्रगल्भो मेधावी प्राज्ञक्षरसि बालवत्

English

of the lives and the wealth of all, and therefore, like unto a snake of virulent poison. He should always fear to indulge in evil speeches before the king, or to sit cheerlessly or in irreverent postures, or to wait in attitudes of disrespect or to walk disdainfully or display insolent gestures and disrespectful motions of the limbs. If the king becomes gratified, he can shower prosperity like god. If he becomes enraged, he can consume to the very roots like a blazing fire. This, O king, was said by Yama. Its truth is seen in the affairs of the world. I shall now (acting according to these precepts) do that which would enhance thy prosperity. Friends like ourselves can give unto friends like thee the aid of their intelligence in seasons of peril. This crow of mine, O king, has been slain for doing thy business. I cannot, however, blame thee for this. Thou art not loved by those (that have slain this bird). Ascertain who are thy friends and who thy foes. Do everything thyself without surrendering thy intelligence to others. They who are on thy establishment are all peculators. They do not desire the good of thy subjects. I have incurred their hostility. Conspiring with those servants that have constant access to thee they covet the kingdom after thee by compassing thy destruction. Their plans, however, do not succeed in consequence of unforeseen circumstances. Through fear of those men, O king, I shall leave this kingdom for some other asylum. I have no worldly desire, yet those persons of deceitful intentions have shot this shaft at my crow, and have, O lord, despatched the bird to Yama's abode. I have seen this, O king, with eyes whose vision has been improved by penances. With the assistance of this single crow I have crossed this kingdom of thine that is like a river abounding with alligators and sharks and crocodiles and whales. Indeed, with the assistance of that bird, I have passed through thy dominions like unto a Himalayan valley, impenetrable and inaccessible in consequence of trunks of (fallen) trees and scattered rocks and thorny shrubs and lions and tigers and other beasts of prey. The learned say that a region inaccessible in consequence of gloom can be passed through with the aid of a light, and a river that is unfordable can be crossed by means of a boat. No means, however, exist for penetrating or passing through the labyrinth of kingly

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रतिभाशाली, मेधावी तथा तत्त्वज्ञ होकर भी बालकोंके समान विचर रहे हैं

English

affairs. Thy kingdom is like an inaccessible forest enveloped with gloom. Thou (that art the lord of it) canst not trust it. How then can I? Good and evil are regarded here in the same light. Residence here

हिन्दी अर्थ

नित्यतृप्त इव ब्रह्मनू न किज्चिदिव मन्यसे

English

That one-syllabled Brahman which is seen in many forms: Asuri attained that imperishable in that circle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इन्द्रियार्थाननादृत्य मुक्तश्चरसि साक्षिवत्

English

His pupil Panchashikha was nourished by a human woman's milk; there was a householder brahmana woman named Kapila.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्षिप्रमाचक्ष्व मे ब्रह्मन् श्रेयो यदिह मनन्‍्यसे

English

Having become that woman's son, he drank from her breast; thereby he got the name Kapileya and a final understanding.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उवाच श्लक्ष्णया वाचा प्रह्मादमनपार्थया

English

The blessed one told me this about the birth of Kapileya, his state as Kapileya and his unsurpassed omniscience.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जाननेवाले उन मेधावी मुनिने उनसे मधुर एवं सार्थक वाणीमें इस प्रकार कहा

English

Knowing the commonness, Kapila, the best of the knowers of dharma, approached the hundred teachers and bewildered them with arguments.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ह्वासं वृद्धि विनाशं च न प्रहृष्ये न च व्यथे

English

Janaka, drawn to him by the sight of the son of Kapila, left the hundred teachers and followed him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वभावनिरता: सर्वाः परितुष्येन्न केनचित्

English

To him, supremely fit and bowed in dharma, he spoke the highest liberation, that which is laid down as Sankhya.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जानता है, उसके लिये यहाँ कौन-सा कार्य अवशिष्ट रह जाता है?

English

Having spoken of disgust with birth, he spoke of disgust with action; having spoken of disgust with action, he spoke of disgust with all.

हिन्दी अर्थ

महतामपि कायानां सूक्ष्माणां च महोदधौ

English

That for which one engages in action and for which the fruit of actions arises is unreliable, vain, perishable, unsteady and impermanent.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पार्थिवानामपि व्यक्त मृत्युं पश्यामि सर्वश:

English

With destruction seen directly, witnessed by the world, one who says "there is something beyond, from scripture" is defeated.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दिखायी दे रही है

English

The non-self is the self's death; affliction, death and old age are fear; he thinks of the self through delusion; that is held to be a poor view.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उत्तिष्ठते यथाकाल मृत्युर्बलवतामपि

English

Now even if it is so, since it is not found in the world, this king thinks he is ageless and deathless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्योतींष्यपि यथाकालं पतमानानि लक्षये

English

"Is" and "is not": in the absence of a mark, what basis could he speak of for deciding the course of the world?

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वसामान्यगो विद्वान् कृतकृत्य: सुखं स्वपे

English

The root of these two, of the end and of tradition, is perception; perceived scripture is not different, nor is the end anything.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृतकृत्य हो सबके प्रति समान भाव रखता हुआ सुखसे सोता हूँ

English

Where there is inference here and there, or a thing is made to exist, the soul is held, in the view of the unbelievers, to be other than the body.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शये पुनरभुञ्जानो दिवसानि बहून्यपि

English

Like seed in a hundred drops, like the lodging of cooking ghee, memory of birth, the magnet, the sun-gem, the nature of water,

हिन्दी अर्थ

भक्षये शालिमांसानि भक्षांश्नोच्चावचान् पुन:

English

the passing of beings after death, the praying to deities, and the ceasing of action in the dead: this is held to be authority.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भीतर बिछी हुई बहुमूल्य शय्या भी उपलब्ध हो जाती है

English

But these are no reasons at all, those that stand in form; for there is no commonness of the immortal with the mortal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रत्याचक्षे न चाप्येनमनुरुध्ये सुदुर्लभम्

English

Some say rebirth is from ignorance and the efforts of action; greed and delusion are the cause, and the indulgence of faults.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करता हूँ और प्राप्त न होनेपर किसी दुर्लभ भोगकी भी कभी इच्छा नहीं करता

English

They call ignorance the field and deed the seed sown; affection engenders craving; this is their rebirth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्रतमिदमाजगरं शुचिश्षलरामि

English

When that array is burnt and the thought is of mortal nature, one body is born from another; they call that the end of being.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इसी व्रतका आचरण करता हूँ

English

When he is different in form, birth, scripture and purpose, how can this relation "this is he" be unjoined?

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्रतमिदमाजगरं शुचिश्षरामि

English

If so, what joy is there in giving, learning, austerity and strength? For all the deed done by one, another gets.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हुआ मैं पवित्रभावसे इस आजगरव्रतका आचरण करता हूँ

English

When one here is afflicted by common others, or by the happy or the unhappy, the settlement of it can be seen.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्रतमिदमाजगरं शुचिश्चरामि

English

Thus when beaten with clubs, that body would be born again; knowledge, apart from that, by which this is not found, is another.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्रतमिदमाजगरं शुचिश्लरामि

English

Season, year, lunar days, cold and heat, dear and undear, as they see them pass, such is the end of being.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्रतमिदमाजगरं शुचिश्नचरामि

English

When overtaken by old age or by destroying death, the weaker and weaker parts perish first, as in a house.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्रतमिदमाजगरं शुचिश्नलरामि

English

The senses, mind, breath, blood, flesh and bone perish in order and go to their own constituent.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पवित्रभावसे इस आजगरबव्रतका आचरण करता हूँ

English

The arrangement of the world's course, the coming of the fruit of giving and dharma, for which the Vedic words and worldly dealings exist,

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्रतमिदमाजगरं शुचिश्चरामि

English

so in the mind there are many reasons; "this is, this is" and one reaches nothing at all.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वपरमतैर्गहनं प्रतर्कयद्धि:

English

For those so reasoning, running after this and that, the mind settles somewhere and there decays like a tree.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नृषु विहरामि विनीतदोषतृष्ण:

English

Thus all creatures are pained by gains and losses; they are dragged by traditions as elephants by their drivers.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नरस्य का प्रतिष्ठा स्थादेतत् पृष्टो वदस्व मे

English

Many, seeking things that bring utter pleasure, beyond price, fall into greater sorrow, and giving up the bait, go under the power of death.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रज्ञा नि:श्रेयसी लोके प्रज्ञा स्वर्गो मत: सताम्

English

For the perishable, whose life is unsteady, what use are kinsmen and friends and possessions? He who goes leaving all of it goes in a moment and does not return.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रह्यादो नमुचिर्मड्किस्तस्या: कि विद्यते परम्

English

Earth, sky, water, fire and wind ever protect the body; seeing this, where would delight be? There is no ease for this perishable one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उदाहरण दिया करते हैं, उसे सुनो

English

This word, without deceit or trick, the supreme freedom from disease, witnessed by the self, the king, looking at it with astonishment, began to question again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुदुर्लभमवाप्यैतन्न दोषान्मर्तुमहसि

English

cannot, therefore, be safe. Here a person of righteous deeds meets with death, while one of unrighteous deeds incurs no danger. According to the requirements of justice, a person of unrighteous deeds should be slain but never one who is righteous in his acts. It is not proper, therefore, for one to stay in this kingdom long. A man of sense should leave this country soon. There is a river, O king, of the name of Sita. Boats sink in it. This thy kingdom is like that river. An all-destructive net seems to have been cast around it. Thou art like the fall that awaits collectors of honey, or like attractive food containing poison. Thy nature now resembles that of dishonest men and not that of the good. Thou art like a pit, O king, abounding with snakes of virulent poison. Thou resemblest, O king, a river full of sweet water but exceedingly difficult of access, With steep banks overgrown with Kariras and thorny canes. Thou art

हिन्दी अर्थ

पापयोनिमें नहीं उत्पन्न हुए

English

[Janaka said:] "Blessed one, if there is this name for someone after death, then what will ignorance or knowledge do?

हिन्दी अर्थ

मूल॑ बुद्धीन्द्रियग्रामं शकुन्तानिव पठ्जरे

English

Everything would end in annihilation; see this, best of the twice-born; what difference will careful or careless make?

हिन्दी अर्थ

जुगुप्सितां च कृपणां पापवृत्तिमुपासते

English

Non-association with beings, or association with the perishable: for whom is it to be done? What is the truth of the determination here?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनुसार यज्ञ एवं दान करते और न्यायानुकूल संतानोत्पादनकी चेष्टा भी करते हैं

English

Then to him, as if confused and distressed, covered by darkness, the poet Panchashikha spoke, calming him again with words.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुना देता और स्वयं ही अपना तर्कवाद बका करता था

English

[Panchashikha said:] "There is here no end in annihilation, and no end in being; this aggregate of body, senses and thought goes on separately, yet depending on each other in actions.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्येयं फलनिर्व॑त्ति: शृगालत्वं मम द्विज

English

These constituents, five-branched: space, wind, fire, water and earth; they stand by nature and are separated by nature.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्ञेयज्ञाता भवेयं वै वर्ज्यवर्जयिता तथा

English

Space, wind, heat, moisture and the earthy: this fivefold aggregate is called the body in many ways; knowledge, heat and wind are the threefold collection of action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अहो बतासि कुशलो बुद्धिमांश्वेति विस्मित:

English

Senses and their objects, nature, consciousness, mind, prana and apana, modifications and constituents have come out here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संतोषणीयरूपो5सि लोभाद् यदभिमन्यसे

English

swan in the midst of dogs, vultures and jackals. Grassy parasites, deriving their sustenance from a mighty tree, swell into luxuriant growth, and at last covering the tree itself overshadow it completely. A forest conflagration sets in, and catching those grassy plants first, consumes the lordly tree with them. Thy ministers, O king, resemble those grassy parasites of which I speak. Do thou check and correct them. They have been nourished by thee. But conspiring against thee, they are destroying thy prosperity. Concealing (from thee) the faults of thy servants, I am living in thy abode in constant dread of danger, even like a person living in a room with a snake within it or like the lover of a hero's wife. My object is to ascertain the behaviour of the king who is my fellow-lodger. I wish to know whether the king has his passions under control, whether his servants are obedient to him, whether he is loved by them, and whether he loves his subjects. For the object of ascertaining all these points, O best of kings, I have come to thee. Like food to a hungry person, thou hast become dear to me. I dislike thy ministers, however, as a person whose thirst has been slaked dislikes drink. They have found fault with me because I seek thy good. I have no doubt that there is no other cause for that hostility of theirs to me. I do not cherish any hostile intentions towards them. I am engaged in only marking their faults. As one should fear a wounded snake, every one should fear a foe of wicked heart!' l

हिन्दी अर्थ

ही उसकी अवहेलना करते हैं

English

"The king said, 'Reside in my palace, O Brahmana! I shall always treat thee with respect and honour, and always worship thee. They that will dislike thee shall not dwell with me. Do thou thyself do what should be done next unto those persons (of whom thou hast spoken). Do thou see, O holy one, that the rod of chastisement is wielded properly and that everything is done well in my kingdom. Reflecting upon everything, do thou guide me in such a way that I may obtain prosperity.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

अतीव स्पृहये तेषां येषां सन्‍्तीह पाणय:

English

"The sage said, 'Shutting thy eyes in the first instance to this offence of theirs (viz., the slaughter of the crow), do thou weaken them one by one. Prove their faults then and strike them one after another. When many persons become guilty of the same offence, they can, by acting together, soften the very points of thorns. Lest thy ministers (being suspected, act against thee and) disclose thy secret counsels, I advise thee to proceed with such caution. As regards ourselves, we are Brahmanas, naturally compassionate and unwilling to give pain to any one. We desire thy good as also the good of others, even as we wish the good of ourselves. I speak of myself, O king! I am thy friend. I am known as the sage Kalakavrikshiya. I always adhere to truth. Thy sire regarded me lovingly as his friend. When distress overtook this

हिन्दी अर्थ

न पाणिलाभादधिको लाभ: कश्षन विद्यते

English

Among them are action and release; the determination of all truths is called the supreme seed, intellect, the great imperishable.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उद्धरन्ति कृमीनड्राद् दशतो निकषन्ति च

English

For one who sees this collection of qualities as the self, from wrong views endless sorrow is not stilled.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चैलमन्नं सुखं शय्यां निवातं चोपभुञ्जते

English

What is seen as non-self, by that I do not exist and nothing is mine; on what basis then is the series of sorrows attached?

हिन्दी अर्थ

खाते हैं, शय्या बिछाकर सोते हैं तथा एकान्त स्थानका उपभोग करते हैं

English

There hear the best treatise on renunciation, called right mind, which will be shown for your liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपायैर्बहुभिश्वचैव वश्यानात्मनि कुर्वते

English

Renunciation alone of all the actions named, constantly futile and trained, affliction is held to bring sorrow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सहन्ते तानि दुःखानि दिष्ट्या त्वं न तथा मुने

English

In giving up wealth, actions; in giving up enjoyment, vows; in giving up pleasure, the discipline of austerity; in giving up all, completion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न सर्पो न च मण्डूको न चान्य: पापयोनिज:

English

This undivided path of the renunciation of all has been shown, for the abandonment of sorrow; otherwise it would be a bad end.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कि पुनर्योडसि सत्त्वानां सर्वेषां ब्राह्मणोत्तम:

English

Having spoken of the five senses of knowledge residing in thought and mind, I shall now tell of the five senses of action residing in the mind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नात: पापीयसीं योनिं पतेयमपरामिति

English

The hands are the sense of action; the feet the sense of movement; the organ of generation for procreation and delight; the anus for discharge; speech for particular sounds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हूँ। मुझे भय है कि मैं इससे भी बढ़कर किसी दूसरी पापयोनिमें न गिर जाऊँ

English

They know motion as fivefold; thus these eleven; the mind should be released by intellect.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पापीयस्यो बहुतरा इतोन्या: पापयोनय:

English

The ears, sound and thought: these three in the taking in of hearing; so too in touch, in form, and in taste and smell.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नैकान्तं सुखमेवेह क्वचित्पश्यामि कस्यचित्

English

So these five triads are qualities for apprehension; by which a threefold state arises in turn.

हिन्दी अर्थ

परंतु मैं कहीं किसीको ऐसा नहीं देखता, जिसको सर्वथा सुख ही सुख हो

English

Sattvic, rajasic and tamasic: these are the three, in which threefold feeling, the means of all, arises.

हिन्दी अर्थ

राज्याद् देवत्वमिच्छन्ति देवत्वादिन्द्रतामपि

English

Joy, love, bliss, happiness, calm thought, arising from no cause or some cause in the mind: the quality of sattva.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवत्व॑ प्राप्य चेन्द्रत्वं नैव तुष्पेस्तथा सति

English

Discontent, torment, grief, greed and impatience are the marks of rajas, seen with and without cause.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सम्प्रज्वलति सा भूय: समिद्धिरिव पावक:

English

Lack of discernment, delusion, heedlessness, sleep and drowsiness occur in some way: the various qualities of tamas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुखदु:खे तथा चोभे तत्र का परिदेवना

English

There, what is joined with joy in body or mind, one should observe as the sattvic state.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न च पाणेस्तृतीयस्य यन्नास्ति न ततो भयम्

English

And what is joined with torment and brings displeasure to oneself, arising, one should think of as rajas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वास्तवमें है ही नहीं, उसके कारण भय भी नहीं होता है

English

And what is joined with delusion in body or mind, beyond reasoning, unknowable, one should take as tamas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संस्पर्शाद् दर्शनाद् वापि श्रवणाद् वापि जायते

English

That element has hearing as its support; sound rests on hearing; neither is in the knowledge of sound or of another.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ताभ्यां चाभ्यधिको भक्ष्यो न वक्चिद् विद्यते क्वचित्

English

So skin, eyes, tongue and nose as fifth: in touch, form, taste, smell; these are thought and the mind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

येषामभुक्तपूर्वाणि तेषामस्मृतिरेव ते

English

The simultaneity of their own actions stays in these ten; know thought as eleventh and intellect as twelfth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किया है, उन भोजनोंकी स्मृति तुमको कभी नहीं होगी

English

When they are not simultaneous there is no tamasic annihilation; when simultaneous, that is worldly dealing.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरुषस्यैष नियमो मन्ये श्रेयो न संशय:

English

Even having let go the senses, having seen the tradition heard before, thinking, he does not go on, joined with the three qualities.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरुषके लिये कल्याणकारी है, इसमें संशय नहीं

English

The thought overcome by tamas, quick-moving and unsteady, makes a cessation at the right time; they call that tamasic happiness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनुष्या मानुषैरेव दासत्वमुपपादिता:

English

Whatever, joined with tradition, is not wholly stilled, there too he takes up tamas, as if manifest falsehood.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ते खल्वपि रमन्ते च मोदन्ते च हसन्ति च

English

Thus this quality, relying on its own action, has been explained; somehow it acts rightly for some, and for some it does not.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वकर्मणा तु नियतं भवितव्यं तु तत् तथा

English

So thinkers on the self call the aggregate the field; the state that stands in the mind is called the knower of the field.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तया तुष्ट: स्वया योन्या मायां पश्यस्व यादृशीम्

English

That being so, what annihilation, or how eternal, with all beings acting by nature, with reason?

हिन्दी अर्थ

योनिसे संतुष्ट रहता है। देखिये, भगवान्की कैसी माया है?

English

As rivers going to the ocean give up their manifestations and names, and do not keep their own, such is the end of being.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुसम्पूर्ण: स्वया योन्या लब्धलाभोडसि काश्यप

English

That being so, whence a name after death, to arise again, when the soul is mingled and grasped in the middle?

हिन्दी अर्थ

आप धिक्‍ककारके पात्र नहीं हो सकते

English

He who knows this understanding of liberation and seeks the self, unheedful, is not stained by the unwished fruits of action, like a lotus leaf sprinkled with water.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्मायोत्तिष्ठ विप्रर्षे नात्मानं त्यक्तुमहसि

English

Freed from many firm bonds, from those arising from offspring and from the gods, when he gives up pleasure and pain, then, freed, he reaches the highest goal, markless; with the blessings of scripture, authority and tradition, he sleeps, beyond fear of old age and death.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सत्यं दमं च दानं च स्पर्थिष्ठा मा च केनचित्

English

When merit is spent and sin gone, and cause and fruit destroyed, the unattached see the great, unstained, markless space, resting thus.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कीजिये। किसीके साथ स्पर्धा न कीजिये

English

As a spider turning stays when its thread is spent, though thrown, so the freed one gives up sorrow, shattering like a clod striking a mountain.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इच्छन्तस्ते विहाराय सुखं महदवाप्लुयु:

English

As a deer leaves its old horn, or a snake its skin, and goes without looking back, so the freed one gives up sorrow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यज्ञदानप्रजेहायां यतन्ते शक्तिपूर्वकम्

English

As a bird, leaving a tree falling into water, flies off unattached, so he, leaving pleasure and pain, freed, reaches the highest goal, markless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सम्पतन्त्यासुरीं योनिं यज्ञप्रसववर्जिता:

English

This verse too was sung by the king of Mithila, looking at the fire that had lit hell: "Not even a husk of mine is burnt here"; so the king himself is said to have declared.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आन्वीक्षिकीं तर्कविद्यामनुरक्तो निरर्थिकाम्

English

This immortal state, the king of Videha, instructed here by Panchashikha himself, having seen all and settled his purpose, roamed supremely happy, free of grief.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आक्रोष्टा चाभिवक्ता च ब्रह्म॒वाक्येषु च द्विजान्

English

He who reads this settled determination of liberation is not diminished, ever sees, and feels no calamity, suffers no pain; he is freed, like the Maithila reaching Kapila."