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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 209

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 209

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 209

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 209 of the classical Mahābhārata with 21 verses.

Total: 21 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.209.1–21 • 250 Lexicon Terms
निष्कल्मषं ब्रह्मचर्यमिच्छता चरितुं सदा । निद्रा सर्वात्मना त्याज्या स्वप्नदोषानवेक्षता ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said The Yogin who wishes to always practise pure Brahmacharya and who is cognizant of the faults attaching to dreams, should, with his whole heart, try to give up sleep.
स्वप्ने हि रजसा देही तमसा चाभिभूयते । देहान्तरमिवापन्नश्चरत्यपगतस्मृतिः ॥
English Translation
In dreams, the embodied soul, possessed by the qualities of Darkness and Ignorance, seems to become possessed of another body and move and act influenced by desire.
ज्ञानाभ्यासाज्जागरतो जिज्ञासार्थमनन्तरम् । विज्ञानाभिनिवेशात्तु जागरत्यनिशं सदा ॥
English Translation
On account of application for acquiring knowledge and of continued reflection and recapitulation, the Yogin remains always awake. Indeed, the Yogin can keep himself continually awake by giving himself up to knowledge.
अत्राह को न्वयं भावः स्वप्ने विषयवानिव । प्रलीनैरिन्द्रियैर्देही वर्तते देहवानिव ॥
English Translation
Regarding this subject it has been asked what its this state in which the embodied creature thinks himself encircled by and engaged in objects and acts? It is true that the embodied being, with its senses really suspended, still considers itself to be possessed of body with all the sense of knowledge and of action.
अत्रोच्यते यथा ह्येतद्वेद योगेश्वरो हरिः । तथैतदुपपन्नार्थं वर्णयन्ति महर्षयः ॥
English Translation
It is said that that master of Yoga, named Hari, perceives truly how it happens. The great Rishis say that the explanation given by Hari is correct and reasonable.
इन्द्रियाणां श्रमात्स्वप्नमाहुः सर्वगतं बुधाः । मनसस्तु प्रलीनत्वात्तत्तदाहुर्निदर्शनम् ॥
English Translation
The learned says that it is on account of the senses being exhausted with fatigue, dreams are seen by all creatures. The mind, however, never becomes inactive and hence arise dreams. This considered as their principal cause.
कार्यव्यासक्तमनसः संकल्पो जाग्रतो ह्यपि । यद्वन्मनोरथैश्वर्यं स्वप्ने तद्वन्मनोगतम् ॥
English Translation
As the imagination of a person who is awake and engaged in acts, is due only to the creative power of the mind, similarly, the impressions in a dream belong only to the mind.
संसाराणामसंख्यानां कामात्मा तदवाप्नुयात् । मनस्यन्तर्हितं सर्वं वेद सोत्तमपूरुषः ॥
English Translation
A person with desire and attachment receives those imaginations based upon the impressions of numberless pristine lives. Nothing, that impresses the mind once is ever lost, and the Soul being cognisant of all those impressions makes them appear.
गुणानामपि यद्यत्तत्कर्म जानात्युपस्थितम् । तत्तच्छंसन्ति भूतानि मनो यद्भावितं यथा ॥
English Translation
Whichever among the three qualities of Goodness, Darkness, and Ignorance is caused by the influence of pristine acts and by whichever amongst them the mind is affected for the time being in whatever way, the elements in their subtile forms) or indicate accordingly (in the way of images).
ततस्तमुपवर्तन्ते गुणा राजसतामसाः । सात्त्विको वा यथायोगमानन्तर्यफलोदयः ॥
English Translation
After images have thus been created the particular quality of Goodness Darkness or Ignorance that inay have been brought by pristine acts rises in the mind and produces its last result, viz., happiness or misery.
ततः पश्यत्यसंबद्धान्वातपित्तकफोत्तरान् । रजस्तमोभवैर्भावैस्तदप्याहुर्दुरन्वयम् ॥
English Translation
Those images originating principally wind, bile, and phlegm, which men apprehend through ignorance and in consequence of tendency pervaded by Darkness and Ignorance, cannot, it has been said, be easily discarded.
प्रसन्नैरिन्द्रियैर्यद्यत्संकल्पयति मानसम् । तत्तत्स्वप्नेऽप्युपरते मनोदृष्टिर्निरीक्षते ॥
English Translation
(When one is awake) whatever objects a person perceives in the mind through the senses in a clear state are apprehended by the mind in dreams while the senses are inactive.
व्यापकं सर्वभूतेषु वर्ततेऽप्रतिघं मनः । मनस्यन्तर्हितं द्वारं देहमास्थाय मानसम् ॥
यत्तत्सदसदव्यक्तं स्वपित्यस्मिन्निदर्शनम् । सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्थं तदध्यात्मगुणं विदुः ॥
English Translation
In the state called dreamless sleep the manifest human body which, of course, is the door of dreams, disappears in the mind. Possessing the body the mind enters the Soul which is unmanifest and upon which all existent and non-existent things depend, and becomes a wakeful witness with certainly of apprehension. Thus living in pure Consciousness which is the soul of all things, it is considered by the learned as transcending both Consciousness and all things in the universe.
लिप्सेत मनसा यश्च संकल्पादैश्वरं गुणम् । आत्मप्रभावात्तं विद्यात्सर्वा ह्यात्मनि देवताः ॥
English Translation
That Yogin who by desire covets any of the divine qualities (of Knowledge or renunciation, etc.,) should regard a pure mind to be at one with the object of his desire. All things exist in a pure mind or soul.
एवं हि तपसा युक्तमर्कवत्तमसः परम् । त्रैलोक्यप्रकृतिर्देही तपसा तं महेश्वरम् ॥
English Translation
This is the result acquired by one who practises penances. That Yogin, however, who has got over Darkness or ignorance, is endued with transcending effulgence. When Darkness or Ignorance has been got over, the embodied Soul becomes Supreme Brahma, the cause of the universe.
तपो ह्यधिष्ठितं देवैस्तपोघ्नमसुरैस्तमः । एतद्देवासुरैर्गुप्तं तदाहुर्ज्ञानलक्षणम् ॥
English Translation
The deities have penances and Vedic rites. Darkness (or pride and cruelty), which destroys the former, has been adopted by the Asuras. This viz., Brahma, which has been said to have knowledge only for its quality, is difficult of attainment by either the gods or the Asuras.
सत्त्वं रजस्तमश्चेति देवासुरगुणान्विदुः । सत्त्वं देवगुणं विद्यादितरावासुरौ गुणौ ॥
English Translation
It should be known that the qualities of Goodness, Darkness, and Ignorance belong to the gods and the Asuras. Goodness is the quality of the gods; while the two others belong to the Asuras.
ब्रह्म तत्परमं वेद्यममृतं ज्योतिरक्षरम् । ये विदुर्भावितात्मानस्ते यान्ति परमां गतिम् ॥
English Translation
Brahma transcends all those qualities. It is pure Knowledge. It is immortality. It is pure effulgence. it is undecaying. Those persons of pure souls who know Brahma attain to the highest end.
हेतुमच्छक्यमाख्यातुमेतावज्ज्ञानचक्षुषा । प्रत्याहारेण वा शक्यमव्यक्तं ब्रह्म वेदितुम् ॥
English Translation
One having knowledge for his eye can say this much with the help of reason and analogy. Brahma which is indestructible can be comprehended by only withdrawing the senses and the mind.
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