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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 189

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 189

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 189

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 189 of the classical Mahābhārata with 22 verses.

Total: 22 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.189.1–22 • 250 Lexicon Terms
चातुराश्रम्यमुक्तं ते राजधर्मास्तथैव च । नानाश्रयाश्च बहव इतिहासाः पृथग्विधाः ॥
English Translation
Yudhishthira said You have described the four modes of life and their duties. You have also spoken of the duties of kings. You have recounted many histories of various kinds and on various subjects.
श्रुतास्त्वत्तः कथाश्चैव धर्मयुक्ता महामते । संदेहोऽस्ति तु कश्चिन्मे तद्भवान्वक्तुमर्हति ॥
English Translation
I have also heard from you, O you of great intelligence, many discourses about morality. I have, however, one doubt. You should remove it.
जापकानां फलावाप्तिं श्रोतुमिच्छामि भारत । किं फलं जपतामुक्तं क्व वा तिष्ठन्ति जापकाः ॥
English Translation
I wish, O Bharata, to hear of the fruits which silent Reciters of sacred Mantras acquire. what are the fruits that have been shorn for such men? What is that region to which they repair after death?
जपस्य च विधिं कृत्स्नं वक्तुमर्हसि मेऽनघ । जापका इति किं चैतत्सांख्ययोगक्रियाविधिः ॥
English Translation
You should, also, O sinless one, tell me all the rules that have been laid down regarding such silent recitation? When the word Reciter is uttered, what shall I understand by it? Is such a man to be considered as following the ordinances of Vedanta or Yoga or Work.
किं यज्ञविधिरेवैष किमेतज्जप्यमुच्यते । एतन्मे सर्वमाचक्ष्व सर्वज्ञो ह्यसि मे मतः ॥
English Translation
Or, it such a man to be considered as following the ordinances of (mental) sacrifices? How is the path of the Reciters to be called? You posses universal knowledge. Tell me all this.
अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम् । यमस्य यत्पुरा वृत्तं कालस्य ब्राह्मणस्य च ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said 'Regarding it is cited the old history of Yama, Time and a certain Brahmana.
संन्यास एव वेदान्ते वर्तते जपनं प्रति । वेदवादाभिनिर्वृत्ता शान्तिर्ब्रह्मण्यवस्थितौ । मार्गौ तावप्युभावेतौ संश्रितौ न च संश्रितौ ॥
यथा संश्रूयते राजन्कारणं चात्र वक्ष्यते । मनःसमाधिरत्रापि तथेन्द्रियजयः स्मृतः ॥
सत्यमग्निपरीचारो विविक्तानां च सेवनम् । ध्यानं तपो दमः क्षान्तिरनसूया मिताशनम् ॥
विषयप्रतिसंहारो मितजल्पस्तथा शमः । एष प्रवृत्तको धर्मो निवृत्तकमथो शृणु ॥
यथा निवर्तते कर्म जपतो ब्रह्मचारिणः । एतत्सर्वमशेषेण यथोक्तं परिवर्जयेत् । त्रिविधं मार्गमासाद्य व्यक्ताव्यक्तमनाश्रयम् ॥
English Translation
Follow the path of abstention, he should try to do away with his dependence on both the External and the Internal.
कुशोच्चयनिषण्णः सन्कुशहस्तः कुशैः शिखी । चीरैः परिवृतस्तस्मिन्मध्ये छन्नः कुशैस्तथा ॥
English Translation
Sitting on Kusha grass, with Kusha in hand, and binding his hairs with Kusha, he should surround himself with Kusha and have Kusha for robes.
विषयेभ्यो नमस्कुर्याद्विषयान्न च भावयेत् । साम्यमुत्पाद्य मनसो मनस्येव मनो दधत् ॥
English Translation
He should, bowing to all earthly matters, take leave of them and never think of them. He should, acquiring equanimity of, mind, fix his mind on the mind itself.
तद्धिया ध्यायति ब्रह्म जपन्वै संहितां हिताम् । संन्यस्यत्यथ वा तां वै समाधौ पर्यवस्थितः ॥
English Translation
He should, reciting the highly beneficial verse (viz., the Gayatri), meditate with the help of his intellect on Brahma alone. Afterwards he should even leave off that, being then absolutely immersed in contemplation.
ध्यानमुत्पादयत्यत्र संहिताबलसंश्रयात् । शुद्धात्मा तपसा दान्तो निवृत्तद्वेषकामवान् ॥
English Translation
His dependence on the Gayatri which he recites, will give him this concentered contemplation. He attains by penances to purity of soul, and self-control, and cessation of hatred and desire.
अरागमोहो निर्द्वंद्वो न शोचति न सज्जते । न कर्ताकरणीयानां न कार्याणामिति स्थितिः ॥
English Translation
Freed from attachment and delusion, being above the influence of all pairs of opposites, he ever grieves and never suffers himself to be attracted towards worldly objects. He does not consider himself as the actor nor as the enjoyer of sufferer of the fruits of his acts.
न चाहंकारयोगेन मनः प्रस्थापयेत्क्वचित् । न चात्मग्रहणे युक्तो नावमानी न चाक्रियः ॥
English Translation
He never, out of selfishness, fixes his mind on anything. Without being engaged in the acquisition of wealth, he abstains also from disregarding or insulting others, but not from work.
ध्यानक्रियापरो युक्तो ध्यानवान्ध्याननिश्चयः । ध्याने समाधिमुत्पाद्य तदपि त्यजति क्रमात् ॥
English Translation
The work in which he is engaged is that of meditation; he is devoted to meditation, and seeks meditation. By meditation he acquires concentered contemplation, and then gradually leaves off meditation itself.
स वै तस्यामवस्थायां सर्वत्यागकृतः सुखी । निरीहस्त्यजति प्राणान्ब्राह्मीं संश्रयते तनुम् ॥
English Translation
He enjoys, in that state, the happiness which follows Renunciation. Having thoroughly controlled his desires, he casts off his life-breaths and merges into the Brahmic body.
अथ वा नेच्छते तत्र ब्रह्मकायनिषेवणम् । उत्क्रामति च मार्गस्थो नैव क्वचन जायते ॥
English Translation
Or, if he does not desire to merge into the Brahmic body, he at once goes upwards into the region of Brahma and is never born again.
आत्मबुद्धिं समास्थाय शान्तीभूतो निरामयः । अमृतं विरजःशुद्धमात्मानं प्रतिपद्यते ॥
English Translation
Having become tranquillity's self, and being freed from all sorts of calamity, such a person, by depending upon his own intelligence, attains to that Soul which is pure and immortal and which is without a stain.'
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