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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 188

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 188

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 188

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 188 of the classical Mahābhārata with 23 verses.

Total: 23 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.188.1–23 • 250 Lexicon Terms
हन्त वक्ष्यामि ते पार्थ ध्यानयोगं चतुर्विधम् । यं ज्ञात्वा शाश्वतीं सिद्धिं गच्छन्ति परमर्षयः ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said 'I shall not, O son of Pritha, describe to you for four kinds of Yoga meditation. Obtaining a knowledge of the same, the great Rishis, attain to eternal success even in this world. Pleased with knowledge, with hearts engaged in Liberation, and conversant with Yoga, great Rishis, act in such a way that their Yoga meditation may get on properly.
यथा स्वनुष्ठितं ध्यानं तथा कुर्वन्ति योगिनः । महर्षयो ज्ञानतृप्ता निर्वाणगतमानसाः ॥
नावर्तन्ते पुनः पार्थ मुक्ताः संसारदोषतः । जन्मदोषपरिक्षीणाः स्वभावे पर्यवस्थिताः ॥
English Translation
O son of Pritha, being freed from the faults of the world, these are not born again. Freed from liability to re-birth, they live in their state of original purity.
निर्द्वंद्वा नित्यसत्त्वस्था विमुक्ता नित्यमाश्रिताः । असङ्गीन्यविवादीनि मनःशान्तिकराणि च ॥
English Translation
Freed from the influence of all pairs of opposite (such as heat and cold, joy and sorrow, etc.), ever existing in their own (pure) state, freed (from attachments), never accepting anything (in gift), they live in places separated from their wives and children, without others with whom disputes may arise, and favourable to perfect tranquillity of hearts.
तत्र स्वाध्यायसंश्लिष्टमेकाग्रं धारयेन्मनः । पिण्डीकृत्येन्द्रियग्राममासीनः काष्ठवन्मुनिः ॥
English Translation
There restraining speech, such a person sits like a piece of wood, killing all the senses, and with mind immersed in the Supreme Self by the help of meditation.
शब्दं न विन्देच्छ्रोत्रेण स्पर्शं त्वचा न वेदयेत् । रूपं न चक्षुषा विद्याज्जिह्वया न रसांस्तथा ॥
English Translation
He has no perception of sound through the car; no perception of touch through the skin no perception of from through the eye; no perception of taste through the tongue.
घ्रेयाण्यपि च सर्वाणि जह्याद्ध्यानेन योगवित् । पञ्चवर्गप्रमाथीनि नेच्छेच्चैतानि वीर्यवान् ॥
English Translation
He has no perception also of scents through the organ of smell. He would, immersed in Yoga and meditation, renounce all things.
ततो मनसि संसज्य पञ्चवर्गं विचक्षणः । समादध्यान्मनो भ्रान्तमिन्द्रियैः सह पञ्चभिः ॥
English Translation
Possessed of great energy of mind, he has no desire for anything that works up the five senses. The wise man, then should, withdrawing his five senses into the mind, fix the unstable mind with the five senses (into the Intellect).
विसंचारि निरालम्बं पञ्चद्वारं चलाचलम् । पूर्वे ध्यानपथे धीरः समादध्यान्मनोऽन्तरम् ॥
English Translation
The Yogin should possessed of patience, fix his mind which always wanders, so that his five gates may be made firm regarding things that are themselves unstable. He should, in this sky of the heart, fix his mind into the path of meditation, making it independent of the body or any other refuge.
इन्द्रियाणि मनश्चैव यदा पिण्डीकरोत्ययम् । एष ध्यानपथः पूर्वो मया समनुवर्णितः ॥
English Translation
I have spoken of the path of meditation as the first, since the Yogin has first to destroy his senses and the mind.
तस्य तत्पूर्वसंरुद्धं मनःषष्ठमनन्तरम् । स्फुरिष्यति समुद्भ्रान्तं विद्युदम्बुधरे यथा ॥
English Translation
The mind, which constitutes the sixth, when thus controlled, tries of flash out like the capricious and fickle lightning playing among the clouds.
जलबिन्दुर्यथा लोलः पर्णस्थः सर्वतश्चलः । एवमेवास्य तच्चित्तं भवति ध्यानवर्त्मनि ॥
English Translation
As a drop of water on a leaf in unstable and moves about on all sides, so becomes the Yogin's mind when first fix on the path of meditation.
समाहितं क्षणं किंचिद्ध्यानवर्त्मनि तिष्ठति । पुनर्वायुपथं भ्रान्तं मनो भवति वायुवत् ॥
English Translation
When fixed, for some time the inind stays in that path. When, however, it goes astray again into the path of the wind, it becomes as fleet as the wind.
अनिर्वेदो गतक्लेशो गततन्द्रीरमत्सरः । समादध्यात्पुनश्चेतो ध्यानेन ध्यानयोगवित् ॥
English Translation
The person who has mastered the science of Yoga,-without losing his heart by this, never regarding the loss of the toil undergone, shaking off idleness and malice,-should, again, direct his mind to meditation.
विचारश्च वितर्कश्च विवेकश्चोपजायते । मुनेः समादधानस्य प्रथमं ध्यानमादितः ॥
English Translation
When one observing the vow of silence, begins to set his mind of Yoga, then discrimination, knowledge, and power to avoid cvil follow him in the trail.
मनसा क्लिश्यमानस्तु समाधानं च कारयेत् । न निर्वेदं मुनिर्गच्छेत्कुर्यादेवात्मनो हितम् ॥
English Translation
He should, though disturbed by the fickleness of his mind, fix it in meditation. The Yogin should never despair, but seek own his well-being.
पांसुभस्मकरीषाणां यथा वै राशयश्चिताः । सहसा वारिणा सिक्ता न यान्ति परिभावनाम् ॥
किंचित्स्निग्धं यथा च स्याच्छुष्कचूर्णमभावितम् । क्रमशस्तु शनैर्गच्छेत्सर्वं तत्परिभावनम् ॥
एवमेवेन्द्रियग्रामं शनैः संपरिभावयेत् । संहरेत्क्रमशश्चैव स सम्यक्प्रशमिष्यति ॥
स्वयमेव मनश्चैव पञ्चवर्गश्च भारत । पूर्वं ध्यानपथं प्राप्य नित्ययोगेन शाम्यति ॥
English Translation
One succeeds, O Bharata, by directing one's mind and to the path of senses meditation, in controlling them perfectly by steadfast Yoga.
न तत्पुरुषकारेण न च दैवेन केनचित् । सुखमेष्यति तत्तस्य यदेवं संयतात्मनः ॥
English Translation
The happiness that he fells who has succeeded in controlling his mind and senses is such that its like can never be experienced through exertion or Destiny.
सुखेन तेन संयुक्तो रंस्यते ध्यानकर्मणि । गच्छन्ति योगिनो ह्येवं निर्वाणं तन्निरामयम् ॥
English Translation
Enjoying such felicity, be continues to find pleasure in the act of meditation. Yogins attain, in this way, to the highly blessed state of Nirvana.'
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