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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 198

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 198

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 198

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 198 of the classical Mahābhārata with 19 verses.

Total: 19 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.198.1–19 • 250 Lexicon Terms
ज्ञानं ज्ञेयाभिनिर्वृत्तं विद्धि ज्ञानगुणं मनः । प्रज्ञाकरणसंयुक्तं ततो बुद्धिः प्रवर्तते ॥
English Translation
Pure Knowledge, exists in the various objects of knowledge. Know that mind is only an attribute of Knowledge. When the mind is united with the faculties of knowledge, then the understanding sets in.
यदा कर्मगुणोपेता बुद्धिर्मनसि वर्तते । तदा प्रज्ञायते ब्रह्म ध्यानयोगसमाधिना ॥
English Translation
When freed from the attributes of action, the understanding is directed towards the mind; then does it succeed in knowing Brahma by meditation or Yoga ending in complete absorption (Samadhi).
सेयं गुणवती बुद्धिर्गुणेष्वेवाभिवर्तते । अवताराभिनिःस्रोतं गिरेः शृङ्गादिवोदकम् ॥
English Translation
The Understanding, originating from Ignorance, and endued with the senses and attributes, runs towards external objects, like a river originating from a mountain summit and flowing towards other quarters.
यदा निर्गुणमाप्नोति ध्यानं मनसि पूर्वजम् । तदा प्रज्ञायते ब्रह्म निकष्यं निकषे यथा ॥
English Translation
When the understanding, with-drawn into the mind, succeeds in absorbing itself into contemplation that is shorn of attributes, it acquires a knowledge of Brahma like the touch of gold on a touch-stone.
मनस्त्वपहृतं बुद्धिमिन्द्रियार्थनिदर्शनम् । न समक्षं गुणावेक्षि निर्गुणस्य निदर्शनम् ॥
English Translation
The mind apprehends the objects of the senses. It must first be extinguished. Depend upon the attributes of objects that are before it, the mind can never show that which is without attributes.
सर्वाण्येतानि संवार्य द्वाराणि मनसि स्थितः । मनस्येकाग्रतां कृत्वा तत्परं प्रतिपद्यते ॥
English Translation
Closing all the doors formed by the senses the Understanding should be with-drawn into the mind. In this condition when absorbed in contemplation, it acquires the knowledge of Brahma.
यथा महान्ति भूतानि निवर्तन्ते गुणक्षये । तथेन्द्रियाण्युपादाय बुद्धिर्मनसि वर्तते ॥
English Translation
As upon the destruction of the attributes by which they are known, the fivefold great creatures are contracted into their subtile forms, so the Understanding may dwell in the mind alone, with the senses all withdrawn from their objects.
यदा मनसि सा बुद्धिर्वर्ततेऽन्तरचारिणी । व्यवसायगुणोपेता तदा संपद्यते मनः ॥
English Translation
When the Understanding, though endued with the quality of certainty, lives in the mind, busied with the internal, even then it is nothing but the mind.
गुणवद्भिर्गुणोपेतं यदा ध्यानगुणं मनः । तदा सर्वगुणान्हित्वा निर्गुणं प्रतिपद्यते ॥
English Translation
When the mind of consciousness, which attains to perfection through contemplation, succeeds in identifying qualities with their possessors, then can it cast off all attributes and attain to Brahma which is without qualities.
अव्यक्तस्येह विज्ञाने नास्ति तुल्यं निदर्शनम् । यत्र नास्ति पदन्यासः कस्तं विषयमाप्नुयात् ॥
English Translation
There is no indication that which can give a knowledge of the Unseen. That which cannot be described in language, cannot be acquired by anyone.
तपसा चानुमानेन गुणैर्जात्या श्रुतेन च । निनीषेत्तत्परं ब्रह्म विशुद्धेनान्तरात्मना ॥
English Translation
With purified soul, one should try to approach the Supreme Brahma, through the help afforded by penances, by inferences, by self-control, by the practices and observances sanctioned for one's own order, and by the Vedas.
गुणहीनो हि तं मार्गं बहिः समनुवर्तते । गुणाभावात्प्रकृत्या च निस्तर्क्यं ज्ञेयसंमितम् ॥
English Translation
Persons of clear vision seek him in even external forms by freeing themselves from qualities. The Supreme, which is called by the name of what should be known, on account of the absence of all qualities, or of its own nature, can never be apprehended by argument.
नैर्गुण्याद्ब्रह्म चाप्नोति सगुणत्वान्निवर्तते । गुणप्रसारिणी बुद्धिर्हुताशन इवेन्धने ॥
English Translation
When the Understanding becomes freed from qualities, then only can it attain to Brahma. When it is endued with qualities, it falls back from the Supreme. Indeed, such is the nature of the understanding that it rushes towards qualities and moves among them like fire among fuel.
यथा पञ्च विमुक्तानि इन्द्रियाणि स्वकर्मभिः । तथा तत्परमं ब्रह्म विमुक्तं प्रकृतेः परम् ॥
English Translation
As in the state of deep and dreamless sleep the five senses exist freed from their respective works, similarly the Supreme Brahma exists high above Prakriti, freed from all its qualities.
एवं प्रकृतितः सर्वे प्रभवन्ति शरीरिणः । निवर्तन्ते निवृत्तौ च सर्गं नैवोपयान्ति च ॥
English Translation
Embodied creatures perform various actions on account of attributes. When they abstain therefrom, they acquire liberation. Some again go to heaven.
पुरुषः प्रकृतिर्बुद्धिर्विशेषाश्चेन्द्रियाणि च । अहंकारोऽभिमानश्च संभूतो भूतसंज्ञकः ॥
English Translation
The living creature, primordial nature, the understanding, the objects of the senses, the senses, consciousness, consciousness of Ego, are called creatures.
एकस्याद्या प्रवृत्तिस्तु प्रधानात्संप्रवर्तते । द्वितीया मिथुनव्यक्तिमविशेषान्नियच्छति ॥
English Translation
The original creation of all these proceeded from the Supreme. Their second creation is due to the union of couples or pairs and is confined to all things except the principal five, and is governed by law for which the same species produce the same species.
धर्मादुत्कृष्यते श्रेयस्तथाश्रेयोऽप्यधर्मतः । रागवान्प्रकृतिं ह्येति विरक्तो ज्ञानवान्भवेत् ॥
English Translation
From righteousness creatures obtain a great end, and from sinfulness they earn a low end. He who is not freed from attachments, goes through rebirth; while he who is freed therefrom, attains to Knowledge (or Brahma).
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