Ashvamedha Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

असीनादाय शक्तीश्च भार्गव पर्यधावयन्

English

Indriyagolokeshu or those vital parts which constitute the seats of the senses. Chetana does not, I think, mean 'consciousness.' It implies mind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्विजैरुत्पादितं क्षत्रं जामदग्न्यो न्यकृन्तत

English

Joy, delight, surging, manifestation, happiness, absence of meanness, absence of agitation, contentment, faith,

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्षत्रबन्धूनिमान् प्राणैर्विप्रयोज्य पुन: पुन:

English

patience, steadfastness, non-harm, equanimity, truth, uprightness, freedom from anger and envy, purity, skill, valour,

हिन्दी अर्थ

बेचारे क्षत्रियोंके प्राण लेनेमें तुम्हें कौन-सा लाभ दिखायी देता है?”

English

knowledge without return, conduct without return, service without return, toil without return: one so joined in dharma attains endlessness hereafter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ना्हनतीह भवन्तो मां निवारयितुमित्युत

English

Free of possessiveness, free of ego, free of hope, equal everywhere, desireless and unstruck: this is the eternal dharma of the good.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नेह युक्त त्वया हन्तुं ब्राह्मणेन सता नृूपान्

English

Trust, modesty, endurance, renunciation, purity, alertness, absence of cruelty, freedom from delusion, compassion toward beings, absence of slander,

हिन्दी अर्थ

जाता है, उसे सुनकर तुम्हें वैसा ही आचरण करना चाहिए

English

gladness, contentment, wonder, humility, good conduct, calm, purity of action, good understanding, release,

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्मज्ञ: सत्यवादी च महात्मा सुदृढव्रत:

English

equanimity, celibacy, complete renunciation, freedom from possessiveness, freedom from hope, a dharma not to be bought:

हिन्दी अर्थ

कृत्वा सुदुष्करं कर्म मन: सूक्ष्मे समादधे

English

gift without return, sacrifice without return, study without return, vow without return, acceptance without return, dharma without return, austerity without return.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तलवार और शक्तियाँ लेकर परशुरामजीपर चारों ओरसे टूट पड़े

English

immaculate, takes birth in this world, failing away from his true status of Brahman owing to his acts. Acts, again, are eternal, no beginning being conceivable.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विसृजन् शरवर्षाणि व्यधमत् पार्थिवं बलम्

English

speaks of Kshara, or the material case, or body; then of that which is para or other. This other is of two kinds, viz., Amritam or suddha-chaitanyam, implying Brahman in its condition of purity; and Aksharamt or Jiva as existing in the material case. In the second line, trayanam refers to Kshara, Amrita, and Akshara. Mithunam is duality, referring to that which is composed of Kshara and Akshara. What is stated in this verse is that every Purusha is a duality, made up of Kshara and Akshara. Telang gives a different version of the verse. He ignores the word trayanam totally, and takes Mithunam as implying a couple (male and female). All the texts I have seen contain trayanam.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हुए राजाकी सेनाका संहार करने लगे

English

the words. Telang translates the first line differently.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भाँति पर्वतोंकी गुफाओंमें घुस गये

English

These are called "upward-streaming": the gods are held to be transformations; they transform by nature, having reached heaven here and there; whatever they wish, all that they enjoy and distribute.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रजा वृषलतां प्राप्ता ब्राह्मणानामदर्शनात्

English

This is the conduct of goodness told to you, best of brahmins; having known it by rule, one gains whatever he wishes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वृषलत्वं परिगता व्युत्थानात् क्षत्रधर्मिण:

English

The qualities of goodness have been told especially, and the conduct of the qualities duly told. The man who always knows these qualities enjoys the qualities and is not enjoyed by them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पराक्रम कर दिखाया था। इसके पश्चात् उनका मन सूक्ष्मतत््वकी खोजमें लगा

English

"--The Brahmana said, 'He who becomes absorbed in the one receptacle (of all things), freeing himself from even the thought of his own identity with all things, —indeed, ceasing to think of even his own existence,— gradually casting off one after another, will succeed in crossing his bonds. 2 That man who is the friend of all, who endures all, who is attached to tranquillity, who has conquered all his senses, who is divested of fear and wrath, and who is of restrained soul, succeeds in emancipating himself. He who behaves towards all creatures as towards himself, who is restrained, pure, free from vanity and divested of egoism is regarded as emancipated from everything. He also is

हिन्दी अर्थ

है। इसलिये अब इसीके ऊपर अपने तीखे सायकोंका प्रहार करूँगा

English

They attach to one another, live on one another, depend on one another and follow one another.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्माच्छ़ोत्रं प्रति शरान् प्रतिमुड्चाम्यहं शितान्

English

As long as there is goodness there is darkness, without doubt; as long as there is darkness and goodness, so long, it is said, there is passion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करता है, इसलिये मैं इन तीखे बाणोंको श्रोत्र-इन्द्रियके ऊपर चलाऊँगा

English

Joined, they make their course together, moving in groups; these live in aggregates, by reasons and non-reasons.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बाणोंकी खोज करो, जिनसे मुझे मार सकोगे

English

Of these, mutually turning in surplus and deficiency, it goes on, as there is less or more, in everything.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तच्छुत्वा स विचिन्त्याथ ततो वचनमब्रवीत्

English

Where darkness is in surplus and has gone to animal state, passion should be known as small there, and goodness still smaller.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यह सुनकर अलर्कने कुछ सोच-विचारकर (नेत्रको सुनाते हुए) कहा

English

Where passion is in surplus and has gone to the middle stream, darkness should be known as small there, and goodness still smaller.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्माच्चक्षुर्हनिष्यामि निशितै: सायकैरहम्

English

Where goodness is in surplus and has gone to the upward stream, passion should be known as small there, and darkness still smaller.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तच्छुत्वा स विचिन्त्याथ ततो वचनमत्रवीत्

English

Goodness is the transformation, the womb, the illuminator of the senses; no other state higher than goodness is ordained.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उत्सृज्य सुमहत्कर्म सूक्ष्म प्रति महामते

English

emancipated who looks with an equal eye upon life and death, pleasure and pain, gain and loss, agreeable and disagreeable. He is in every way emancipated who does not covet what belongs to others, who never disregards any body, who transcends all pairs of opposites, and whose soul is free from attachment. He is emancipated who has no enemy, no kinsman, and no child, who has cast off religion, wealth, and pleasure, and who is freed from desire or cupidity. He becomes emancipated who acquires neither merit nor demerit, who casts off the merits and demerits accumulated in previous births, who wastes the elements of his body for attaining to a tranquillised soul, and who transcends all pairs of opposites. He who abstains from all acts, who is free from desire or cupidity, who looks upon the universe as unenduring or as like an Aswattha tree, ever endued with birth, death and decrepitude, whose understanding is fixed on renunciation, and whose eyes are always directed towards his own faults, soon succeeds in emancipating himself from the bonds that bind him. l He that sees his soul void of smell, of taste and touch, of sound, of belongings, of vision, and unknowable, becomes emancipated. 2 He who sees his soul devoid of the attributes of the five elements to be without form and cause, to be really destitute of attributes though enjoying them, becomes emancipated. 3 Abandoning, with the aid of the understanding, all purposes relating to body and mind, one gradually attains to cessation of separate existence, like a fire unfed with fuel. 4 One who is freed from all impressions, who transcends all pairs of opposites, who is destitute of all belongings, and who uses all his senses under the guidance of penances, becomes emancipated. 5 Having become freed from all impressions, one then attains to Brahma which is Eternal and supreme, and tranquil, and stable, and enduring, and indestructible. After this I shall declare the science of Yoga to which there is nothing superior, and how Yogins, by concentration, behold the perfect soul. 6 I shall declare the instructions regarding it duly. Do thou learn from me those doors by which directing the soul within the body one beholds that which is without beginning and end. 7 Withdrawing the senses from their objects, one should fix the mind upon the soul; having previously undergone the severest austerities, one should practise that concentration of mind

हिन्दी अर्थ

सूक्ष्मतत््वकी खोजके लिये इस प्रकार चिन्ता करने लगे

English

Darkness in the shudra, passion in the kshatriya, goodness in the brahmin the best: so the three qualities turn in the three classes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अन्यत्र बाणान् धास्यामि शत्रुभि: परिवारित:

English

Even from afar they are seen together, moving in groups; darkness, goodness and passion have not been heard of as separate.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मन: प्रति सुतीक्षणाग्रानहं मोक्ष्यामि सायकान्

English

At the sight of the rising sun, fear arises for bad thieves, and travellers are tormented, afflicted by thirst and suffering.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनपर ही तीखे बाणोंका प्रहार करूँगा

English

The sun is said to be goodness, the bad thieves darkness, and the travellers' torment is called the passionate quality.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तवैव मर्म भेत्स्यन्ति भिन्नमर्मा मरिष्यसि

English

In the sun, illumination is goodness, heat is the passionate quality, and the eclipse of it at the new and full moon should be known as dark.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तच्छुत्वा स विचिन्त्याथ ततो वचनमत्रवीत्

English

So in all lights the three qualities turn, and go on in succession here and there as they do.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तवैव मर्म भेत्स्यन्ति भिन्नमर्मा मरिष्यसि

English

In immovable beings darkness has gone to animal state; the passionate turn about, and a state of affection is goodness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तच्छुत्वा स विचिन्त्याथ ततो वचनमब्रवीत्

English

The day should be known as threefold, the night is ordained threefold; the fortnights, months, years, seasons and junctures likewise.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्माज्जिद्धां प्रति शरान् प्रतिमोक्ष्याम्पहं शितान्

English

Gifts are given threefold, sacrifice proceeds threefold, the worlds are threefold, the Vedas threefold, the sciences threefold, the goals threefold.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तवैव मर्म भेत्स्यन्ति भिन्नमर्मा मरिष्यसि

English

Past, future and present, dharma, wealth and desire, prana, apana and udana: these are the three qualities.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तच्छुत्वा स विचिन्त्याथ ततो वचनमत्रवीत्

English

Whatever there is in this world, all of it is in these systems; the three qualities go on unmanifest always; goodness, passion and darkness are the eternal creation of the qualities.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्मात् त्वचं पाटयिष्ये विविध: कड़कपत्रिभि:

English

Darkness is the unmanifest, auspicious, eternal, unborn, the eternal womb; nature, modification, dissolution, Pradhana, origin and end.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तवैव मर्म भेत्स्यन्ति भिन्नमर्मा मरिष्यसि

English

Unsurging, undiminished, unshaking, unmoving, firm, being and non-being: all that is held the unmanifest of three qualities. Its names are to be known by men who contemplate the Self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तच्छुत्वा स विचिन्त्याथ ततो वचनमब्रवीत्

English

One who truly knows the names of the unmanifest and the qualities, all the paths and the only ones, freed from body, knowing the truth of division, is freed from all the qualities and free of ailment.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्माद् बुद्धि प्रति शरान् प्रतिमोक्ष्याम्पहं शितान्

English

Emancipation, l Observant of penances and always practising concentration of mind, the learned Brahmana, endued with intelligence, should observe the precepts of the science of Yoga, beholding the soul in the body. If the good man succeeds in concentrating the mind on the soul, he then, habituated to exclusive meditation, beholds the Supreme soul in his own soul. Self-restrained, and always concentrated, and with all his senses completely conquered, the man of cleansed soul, in consequence of such complete concentration of mind, succeeds in beholding the soul by the soul. As a person beholding some unseen individual in a dream recognises him, saying,— This is he,— when he sees him after waking, after the same manner the good man having seen the Supreme Soul in the deep contemplation of Samadhi recognises it upon waking from Samadhi. 2 As one beholds the fibrous pith after extracting it from a blade of the Saccharum Munja, even so the Yogin beholds the soul, extracting it from the body. The body has been called the Saccharum Munja, and the fibrous pith is said to stand for the soul. This is the excellent illustration propounded by persons conversant with Yoga. When the bearer of a body adequately beholds the soul in Yoga, he then has no one that is master over him, for he then becomes the lord of the three worlds. 3 He succeeds in assuming diverse bodies according as he wishes. Turning away decrepitude and death, he neither grieves nor exults. The self-restrained man, concentrated in Yoga, can create (for himself) the godship of the very gods. Casting off his transient body he attains to immutable Brahma. 4 No fear springs up in him at even the sight of all creatures falling victims to destruction (before his eyes). When all creatures are afflicted,— he can never be afflicted by any one. Devoid of desire and possessed of a tranquil mind, the person in Yoga is never shaken by pain and sorrow and fear, the terrible effects that flow from attachment and affection. Weapons never pierce him; death does not exist for him. Nowhere in the world can be seen any one that is happier than he. Having adequately concentrated his soul, he lives steadily on himself. Turning off decrepitude and pain and pleasure, he sleeps in comfort. Casting off this human body he attains to (other) forms according to his pleasure. While one is enjoying the sovereignty that Yoga bestows, one should never fall away from devotion to Yoga. 5 When one, after adequate devotion to Yoga, beholds

हिन्दी अर्थ

इस बुद्धिपर ही अपने तीक्ष्ण सायकोंका प्रहार करूँगा

English

oneself, one then ceases to have any regard for even him of a hundred sacrifices (Indra). I Hear now how one, habituating oneself to exclusive meditation, succeeds in attaining to Yoga. Thinking of that point of the compass which has the Sun behind it, the mind should be fixed, not outside, but in the interior of that mansion in which one may happen to live. Residing within that mansion, the mind should then, with all its outward and inward (operations), behold in that particular room in which one may stay. At that time when, having deeply meditated, one beholds the All (viz., Brahman, the Soul of the universe), there is then nothing external to Brahman where the mind may dwell. Restraining all the senses in a forest that is free from noise and that is uninhabited, with mind fixed thereon, one should meditate on the All (or universal Brahman) both outside and inside one's body. One should meditate on the teeth, the palate, the tongue, the throat, the neck likewise; one should also meditate on the heart and the ligatures of the

हिन्दी अर्थ

अन्यान् बाणान् समीक्षस्व यैस्त्वं मां सूदयिष्यसि

English

The great Self is described by words that are synonyms; the wise brahmin who knows it does not come to delusion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नाध्यगच्छत् परं शक्‍त्या बाणमेतेषु सप्तसु

English

With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads and mouths everywhere, with hearing everywhere in the world, it stands pervading all.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दूसरा कोई कल्याणकारी साधन नहीं प्रतीत हुआ

English

The Person of great light and flame, lodged in the heart of all, minuteness, lightness, attainment, lordship, imperishable light:

हिन्दी अर्थ

स एकाग्रं मन: कृत्वा निश्चलो योगमास्थित:

English

there are the worlds of the wise, of those devoted to renunciation, the meditators, constant yogis, true to their promises and masters of their senses,

हिन्दी अर्थ

योगेनात्मानमाविश्य सिद्धि परमिकां गत:

English

and some who are learned, free of greed, anger conquered, calm of mind, steadfast, without possessiveness or ego: all these, freed, attain greatness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इति पश्चान्मया ज्ञातं योगान्नास्ति परं सुखम्

English

The steadfast one who knows the holy highest goal of the great Self does not come to delusion in all worlds; Vishnu himself becomes the lord, self-existent, in the first creations.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आस्थित: सुमहाभागो ययौ सिद्धि च दुर्गमाम्

English

The man who thus knows the lord who rests in the cave, the ancient Person of universal form, golden, the highest goal of the wise, the wise one stands beyond understanding.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रहर्ष: प्रीतिरानन्दस्त्रयस्ते सात््चिका गुणा:

English

"The Brahmana continued, 'Thus addressed by me, that intelligent disciple, O slayer of Madhu, once more asked me about this religion of Emancipation that is so difficult to explain. How does this food that is eaten from time to time become digested in the stomach? How does it become transformed into juice? How, again, into blood? How does it nourish the flesh, the marrow, the sinews, the bones? How do all these limbs of embodied creatures grow? How does the strength grow of the growing man? How occurs the escape of all such elements as are not nutritive, and of all impurities separately? How does this one inhale and again, exhale? Staying upon what particular part does the Soul dwell in the body? How does Jiva, exerting himself, bear the body? Of what colour and of what kind is the body in which he dwells again (leaving a particular body)? O holy one, it behoveth thee to tell me all this accurately, O sinless one,— even thus was I interrogated by that learned Brahmana, O Madhava. I replied unto him, O thou of mighty arms, after the manner I myself had heard, O chastiser of all foes. As one placing some

हिन्दी अर्थ

जेतुं परानुत्सहते प्रशान्तात्मा जितेन्द्रिय:

English

precious object in one's store-room should keep one's mind on it, so, placing the mind within one's own body, one should then, restraining all the senses, seek after the Soul, avoiding all heedlessness. One would, becoming always assiduous in this way and gratified with one's own self, within a very short time attain to that Brahma by beholding which one would become conversant with Pradhana. I He is not capable of being seized by the eye; nor even by all the senses. 2 It is only with the lamp of the mind that great Soul can be seen. He has hands and feet on all sides; he has ears on all sides; he dwells, pervading all things in the world. 3 Jiva beholds the Soul as extracted from the body (like the stalk from a blade of Saccharum Munja, when knowledge comes). Then casting off Brahma as invested with form, by holding the mind in the body, he beholds Brahma as freed from all attributes. 4 He sees the Soul with his mind, smiling as it were at the time. Depending upon that Brahma, he then attains to Emancipation in me. 5 O foremost of regenerate ones, all this mystery has now been declared by me. I ask thy permission, for I shall leave this spot. Do thou (also) go withersoever thou pleasest. Thus addressed by me, O Krishna, on that occasion, that disciple of mine, endued with austere penances, that Brahmana of rigid vows, went away according to his pleasure.

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्वारा इन पूर्वोक्त गुणोंका उच्छेद करके दूसरोंको जीतनेका उत्साह करते हैं

English

" Vasudeva continued, 'That best of Brahmanas, O son of Pritha, having said these words unto me, on that occasion, properly relating to the religion of Emancipation, disappeared then and there. Has this discourse been heard by thee, O son of Pritha, with mind directed solely towards it? Even this was what thou didst hear on that occasion while thou wert on thy car. It is my opinion, O son of Pritha, that this is difficult of being comprehended by one whose understanding is confused, or who has acquired no wisdom by study, or who eats food incompatible with his body, or whose Soul is not purified. 6 O chief of Bharata's race, this is a great mystery among the deities that has been declared (to thee). At no time or place, O son of Pritha, has this been heard by man in this world. O sinless one, no other man than thyself is deserving of hearing it. It is not, at this time, capable of being easily understood by one whose inner soul is confused. The world of the deities is filled, O son of Kunti, with those who follow the religion of actions. The cessation of the mortal

हिन्दी अर्थ

अम्बरीषेण या गीता राज्ञा पूर्व प्रशाम्यता

English

" Vasudeva continued, 'That best of Brahmanas, O son of Pritha, having said these words unto me, on that occasion, properly relating to the religion of Emancipation, disappeared then and there. Has this discourse been heard by thee, O son of Pritha, with mind directed solely towards it? Even this was what thou didst hear on that occasion while thou wert on thy car. It is my opinion, O son of Pritha, that this is difficult of being comprehended by one whose understanding is confused, or who has acquired no wisdom by study, or who eats food incompatible with his body, or whose Soul is not purified. 6 O chief of Bharata's race, this is a great mystery among the deities that has been declared (to thee). At no time or place, O son of Pritha, has this been heard by man in this world. O sinless one, no other man than thyself is deserving of hearing it. It is not, at this time, capable of being easily understood by one whose inner soul is confused. The world of the deities is filled, O son of Kunti, with those who follow the religion of actions. The cessation of the mortal

हिन्दी अर्थ

कभी शान्तिपरायण महाराज अम्बरीषने इस गाथाका गान किया था

English

" Vasudeva continued, 'That best of Brahmanas, O son of Pritha, having said these words unto me, on that occasion, properly relating to the religion of Emancipation, disappeared then and there. Has this discourse been heard by thee, O son of Pritha, with mind directed solely towards it? Even this was what thou didst hear on that occasion while thou wert on thy car. It is my opinion, O son of Pritha, that this is difficult of being comprehended by one whose understanding is confused, or who has acquired no wisdom by study, or who eats food incompatible with his body, or whose Soul is not purified. 6 O chief of Bharata's race, this is a great mystery among the deities that has been declared (to thee). At no time or place, O son of Pritha, has this been heard by man in this world. O sinless one, no other man than thyself is deserving of hearing it. It is not, at this time, capable of being easily understood by one whose inner soul is confused. The world of the deities is filled, O son of Kunti, with those who follow the religion of actions. The cessation of the mortal