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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 212

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 212

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 212

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 212 of the classical Mahābhārata with 53 verses.

Total: 53 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.212.1–53 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
जनको जनदेवस्तु ज्ञापितः परमर्षिणा । पुनरेवानुपप्रच्छ सांपराये भवाभवौ ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said "Thus instructed by the great Rishi Panchashikha, Janadeva of the family of Janaka, once more asked him about the subject of existence or non-existence after death.
भगवन्यदिदं प्रेत्य संज्ञा भवति कस्यचित् । एवं सति किमज्ञानं ज्ञानं वा किं करिष्यति ॥
English Translation
O illustrious one, if no person, retains any knowledge after departing from this state of existence, if, indeed, this is true, what then is the difference between Ignorance and Knowledge? What do we gain then by knowledge and what do we lose by ignorance?
सर्वमुच्छेदनिष्ठं स्यात्पश्य चैतद्द्विजोत्तम । अप्रमत्तः प्रमत्तो वा किं विशेषं करिष्यति ॥
English Translation
See, O foremost of the twice-born, that if liberation be such, then all religious acts and vows terminate only in annihilation? Of what use would then the distinction be between heedfulness and heedlessness.
असंसर्गो हि भूतेषु संसर्गो वा विनाशिषु । कस्मै क्रियेत कल्पेन निश्चयः कोऽत्र तत्त्वतः ॥
English Translation
If Liberation means dissociation from all objects of pleasure or an association with objects that are not lasting, why should then men cherish a desire for action or having set themselves to action, continue to find out the necessary means for the accomplishment of desired ends? What then is the truth.
तमसा हि प्रतिच्छन्नं विभ्रान्तमिव चातुरम् । पुनः प्रशमयन्वाक्यैः कविः पञ्चशिखोऽब्रवीत् ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said Seeing the king enveloped in thick darkness, stupefied by error, and become helpless, the learned Panchashikha put his mind at rest by once more addressing him thus.
उच्छेदनिष्ठा नेहास्ति भावनिष्ठा न विद्यते । अयं ह्यपि समाहारः शरीरेन्द्रियचेतसाम् । वर्तते पृथगन्योन्यमप्यपाश्रित्य कर्मसु ॥
English Translation
In Liberation the consummation is not Extinction. Nur is that consummation any kind of Existence. What we see is a union of body senses, and mind. Existing independently as also depending on one another, these go on acting.
धातवः पञ्चशाखोऽयं खं वायुर्ज्योतिरम्बु भूः । ते स्वभावेन तिष्ठन्ति वियुज्यन्ते स्वभावतः ॥
English Translation
The ingredients that form the body are water, ether, wind, heat, and earth. These exisi together according to their own nature. They become separated again according to their own nature.
आकाशं वायुरूष्मा च स्नेहो यच्चापि पार्थिवम् । एष पञ्चसमाहारः शरीरमिति नैकधा । ज्ञानमूष्मा च वायुश्च त्रिविधः कर्मसंग्रहः ॥
English Translation
Ether, wind, heat, water and earth,-these five objects in a state of union form the body. The body is not one element.
इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थाश्च स्वभावश्चेतना मनः । प्राणापानौ विकारश्च धातवश्चात्र निःसृताः ॥
English Translation
Intelligence, stomachic heat, and the vital airs, called Prana, etc., that are all wind, three are the organs of action. The senses, the objects of the senses, the power by which they become capable of being perceived the faculties by which they succeed in perceiving them, the mind, the vital airs called Prana. Apana and the rest, and the various juices and humours that are the results of the digestive organs, flow from the three organs already named.
श्रवणं स्पर्शनं जिह्वा दृष्टिर्नासा तथैव च । इन्द्रियाणीति पञ्चैते चित्तपूर्वंगमा गुणाः ॥
English Translation
Hearing, touch, taste, vision, and scent,-these are the five senses. They have derived their attributes from the mind which is their cause.
तत्र विज्ञानसंयुक्ता त्रिविधा वेदना ध्रुवा । सुखदुःखेति यामाहुरदुःखेत्यसुखेति च ॥
English Translation
The mind, which is as an attribute of Chit, has three states, viz., pleasure, pain and absence of both pleasure and pain.
शब्दः स्पर्शश्च रूपं च रसो गन्धश्च मूर्त्यथ । एते ह्यामरणात्पञ्च षड्गुणा ज्ञानसिद्धये ॥
English Translation
Sound, touch, form, taste, scent, and the objects to which they are attached these till the time of one's death are causes for the production of one's knowledge.
तेषु कर्मनिसर्गश्च सर्वतत्त्वार्थनिश्चयः । तमाहुः परमं शुक्रं बुद्धिरित्यव्ययं महत् ॥
English Translation
Upon the senses depend all acts (leading to lucavon), as also renunciation (leading to the attainment of Brahma), and also the ! ascertainment of truth regarding all topics of enquiry. The learned say thai ascertainment of truth) is the highest end of existences, and is the root of Liberation and regarding Intelligence, they say that it leads to Liberation and Brahma.
इमं गुणसमाहारमात्मभावेन पश्यतः । असम्यग्दर्शनैर्दुःखमनन्तं नोपशाम्यति ॥
English Translation
That person who considers this union of perishable attributes as the Soui, feeis, on account of such imperfect knowledge, unending misery
अनात्मेति च यद्दृष्टं तेनाहं न ममेत्यपि । वर्तते किमधिष्ठाना प्रसक्ता दुःखसंततिः ॥
English Translation
Those persons, who, however, regard alll worldly objects as not-Soui, and who on that account cease to have any affection or attachment for them, have never to suffer any misery, for sorrow, in their case, stands in need of some foundation upon which to depend.
तत्र सम्यङ्मनो नाम त्यागशास्त्रमनुत्तमम् । शृणु यत्तव मोक्षाय भाष्यमाणं भविष्यति ॥
English Translation
About it there is the unrivalled branch of knowledge which treats of Renunciation. It is called Samyagvadha. I shall describe it to you. Listen to it for the sake of your Liberation.
त्याग एव हि सर्वेषामुक्तानामपि कर्मणाम् । नित्यं मिथ्याविनीतानां क्लेशो दुःखावहो मतः ॥
English Translation
Renunciation of acts is (laid down) for all persons who seek Liberation earnestly. They, however, who have not been instructed correctly have to bear a heavy load of sorrow,
द्रव्यत्यागे तु कर्माणि भोगत्यागे व्रतान्यपि । सुखत्यागे तपोयोगः सर्वत्यागे समापना ॥
English Translation
Vedic sacrifices and other rites exist for renunciation of wealth and other earthly (objects. For renunciation of all enjoyments, exist yows and fasts of various sorts. For renunciation of pleasure and happiness exist penances and yoga. Renunciation everything, is the highest kind of renunciation,
तस्य मार्गोऽयमद्वैधः सर्वत्यागस्य दर्शितः । विप्रहाणाय दुःखस्य दुर्गतिर्ह्यन्यथा भवेत् ॥
English Translation
This that I shall presently describe to you is the one path pointed out by the learned for that renunciation of everything. They who follow that path succeed in driving off all sorrow. They, however, that deviate from it suffer distress and misery
पञ्च ज्ञानेन्द्रियाण्युक्त्वा मनःषष्ठानि चेतसि । मनःषष्ठानि वक्ष्यामि पञ्च कर्मेन्द्रियाणि तु ॥
English Translation
First speaking of the five organs of knowledge having the mind for the sixth, und all of which live in the understanding, i stall describe the five organs of action having strength for their sixth.
हस्तौ कर्मेन्द्रियं ज्ञेयमथ पादौ गतीन्द्रियम् । प्रजनानन्दयोः शेफो विसर्गे पायुरिन्द्रियम् ॥
English Translation
The two hands forms the two organs of action. The two legs are two organs for moving from one place to another. The sexual organ is for both pleasure and the continuation of in species. The lower channel, leading from the stomach downwards, is the organ for purging off of all used-up matter. aran a prafastarffuta usati fag: 1
वाक्तु शब्दविशेषार्थं गतिं पञ्चान्वितां विदुः । एवमेकादशैतानि बुद्ध्या त्ववसृजेन्मनः ॥
कर्णौ शब्दश्च चित्तं च त्रयः श्रवणसंग्रहे । तथा स्पर्शे तथा रूपे तथैव रसगन्धयोः ॥
English Translation
In the act of hearing, three causes must exist simultaneously, viz., the two ears, sound, and the mind. The same is the case with the perception of touch; the same with that of form; the same with that of taste and smell.
एवं पञ्चत्रिका ह्येते गुणास्तदुपलब्धये । येन यस्त्रिविधो भावः पर्यायात्समुपस्थितः ॥
English Translation
These fifteen attributes are necessary for the several kinds of perception. In consequence of them, every man becomes conscious of three separate things regarding those perceptions.
सात्त्विको राजसश्चैव तामसश्चैव ते त्रयः । त्रिविधा वेदना येषु प्रसूता सर्वसाधना ॥
English Translation
There are again three classes (of mental perception, viz., those that appertain to Goodness, those that belong of Darkness, and those that belong to Ignorance. With them are connected three kinds of consciousness, including all feelings and emotions.
प्रहर्षः प्रीतिरानन्दः सुखं संशान्तचित्तता । अकुतश्चित्कुतश्चिद्वा चित्ततः सात्त्विको गुणः ॥
English Translation
Pleasure, satisfaction, joy, happiness, and tranquillity, originating in the mind from any perceptible cause or in the absence of any apparent cause, appertain to the quality of Goodness.
अतुष्टिः परितापश्च शोको लोभस्तथाक्षमा । लिङ्गानि रजसस्तानि दृश्यन्ते हेत्वहेतुतः ॥
English Translation
Discontent, regret, grief, cupidity, and vindictiveness, having no cause or occasioned by any perceptible cause, are the marks of the quality of Darkness.
अविवेकस्तथा मोहः प्रमादः स्वप्नतन्द्रिता । कथंचिदपि वर्तन्ते विविधास्तामसा गुणाः ॥
English Translation
Wrong judgement, stupefaction, carelessness, dreams, and sleepiness, however, caused, appertain to the quality of Ignorance.
तत्र यत्प्रीतिसंयुक्तं काये मनसि वा भवेत् । वर्तते सात्त्विको भाव इत्यपेक्षेत तत्तथा ॥
English Translation
Whatever state of consciousness exists, regarding either the body or the mind, united with joy or satisfaction, should be considered as due to the quality of Goodness.
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