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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 224

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 224

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 224

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 224 of the classical Mahābhārata with 76 verses.

Total: 76 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.224.1–76 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 2 of 3 (Verses 30 shown)
सहस्रयुगपर्यन्तमहर्यद्ब्रह्मणो विदुः । रात्रिं युगसहस्रान्तां तेऽहोरात्रविदो जनाः ॥
English Translation
What is Brahman's day covers a thousand such cycles. His night also covers a thousand similar cycles. They who know this are said to know the day and the night.
प्रतिबुद्धो विकुरुते ब्रह्माक्षय्यं क्षपाक्षये । सृजते च महद्भूतं तस्माद्व्यक्तात्मकं मनः ॥
English Translation
On the expiry of His night, Brahman, waking up modifies the indestructible intelligence by causing it to be overlaid with ignorance. He then causes Consciousness to spring up, whence originates Mind which is at one with the Manifest.
ब्रह्म तेजोमयं शुक्रं यस्य सर्वमिदं जगत् । एकस्य भूतं भूतस्य द्वयं स्थावरजङ्गमम् ॥
English Translation
Vyasa said Brahma is the effulgent seed from which existing as it does by itself, has originated the entire universe consisting of two kinds of being, viz., the mobile and the immobile,
अहर्मुखे विबुद्धः सन्सृजते विद्यया जगत् । अग्र एव महाभूतमाशु व्यक्तात्मकं मनः ॥
English Translation
At the dawn of His day, waking up, He creates with the aid of Avidya this universe. Mahat or the principle of Greatness at first springs up. That Mahat is speedily changed into Mind which is the soul of the Manifest.
अभिभूयेह चार्चिष्मद्व्यसृजत्सप्त मानसान् । दूरगं बहुधागामि प्रार्थनासंशयात्मकम् ॥
English Translation
Overwhelming the Intelligence, which is effulgent, with Ignorance, Mind creates seven great entities. Urged by the desire of creating, Mind, which is far-reaching, which has many courses, and which had desire and doubt for its leading signs, beings to create various kinds of objects by modifications of itself. Ether first originates from it. Know that its property is Sound.
मनः सृष्टिं विकुरुते चोद्यमानं सिसृक्षया । आकाशं जायते तस्मात्तस्य शब्दो गुणो मतः ॥
आकाशात्तु विकुर्वाणात्सर्वगन्धवहः शुचिः । बलवाञ्जायते वायुस्तस्य स्पर्शो गुणो मतः ॥
English Translation
From Ether, by modification, originates the bearer of all scents, viz., the pure, and powerful Wind. It is said to possess the property of Touch.
वायोरपि विकुर्वाणाज्ज्योतिर्भूतं तमोनुदम् । रोचिष्णु जायते तत्र तद्रूपगुणमुच्यते ॥
English Translation
From Wind also, by modification, originates Light endued with effulgence. Beautiful and called also Shukram, it is thus created, possessing the attribute of Form.
ज्योतिषोऽपि विकुर्वाणाद्भवन्त्यापो रसात्मिकाः । अद्भ्यो गन्धगुणा भूमिः पूर्वैषा सृष्टिरुच्यते ॥
English Translation
From light, by modification, originates Water having taste for its attribute. From Water originates Earth having Scent for its attribute. These are said to represent primary creation.
गुणाः पूर्वस्य पूर्वस्य प्राप्नुवन्त्युत्तरोत्तरम् । तेषां यावत्तिथं यद्यत्तत्तत्तावद्गुणं स्मृतम् ॥
English Translation
These, in succession, acquire the attributes of the immediately preceding ones from which they have originated. Each has not only its own special attribute but each succeeding one has the attributes of all the previous ones.
उपलभ्याप्सु चेद्गन्धं केचिद्ब्रूयुरनैपुणात् । पृथिव्यामेव तं विद्यादापो वायुं च संश्रितम् ॥
English Translation
If anybody, perceiving Scent in Water, were from ignorance to say that it belongs to Water, he would make a mistake, for Scent is the attribute of Earth though it may exist in Water and also Wind.
एते तु सप्त पुरुषा नानाविर्याः पृथक्पृथक् । नाशक्नुवन्प्रजाः स्रष्टुमसमागम्य सर्वतः ॥
English Translation
These seven kinds of entities, possessing various kinds of energy, at first existed separately from one another. They could not create objects without all of them acting in a body.
ते समेत्य महात्मानमन्योन्यमभिसंश्रिताः । शरीराश्रयणं प्राप्तास्ततः पुरुष उच्यते ॥
English Translation
All these great entities coming together, and mixing with one another, form the constituent parts of the body which are called limbs.
श्रयणाच्छरीरं भवति मूर्तिमत्षोडशात्मकम् । तदाविशन्ति भूतानि महान्ति सह कर्मणा ॥
English Translation
On account of the combination of those limbs,-the sum-total, invested with form and having sixteen constituent parts, becomes what is called the body, (When the gross body is thus forined), the subtile principle of greatness, with the unexhausted remnant of acts, then enters that combination called the gross body.
सर्वभूतानि चादाय तपसश्चरणाय च । आदिकर्ता महाभूतं तमेवाहुः प्रजापतिम् ॥
English Translation
The original Creator of all beings, then having by His Maya divided Himself, enters that subtile form for overloO king everything. And because he is the original Creator of all beings he is called the lord of all beings.
स वै सृजति भूतानि स एव पुरुषः परः । अजो जनयते ब्रह्मा देवर्षिपितृमानवान् ॥
लोकान्नदीः समुद्रांश्च दिशः शैलान्वनस्पतीन् । नरकिंनररक्षांसि वयःपशुमृगोरगान् । अव्ययं च व्ययं चैव द्वयं स्थावरजङ्गमम् ॥
तेषां ये यानि कर्माणि प्राक्सृष्ट्यां प्रतिपेदिरे । तान्येव प्रतिपद्यन्ते सृज्यमानाः पुनः पुनः ॥
हिंस्राहिंस्रे मृदुक्रूरे धर्माधर्मे ऋतानृते । अतो यन्मन्यते धाता तस्मात्तत्तस्य रोचते ॥
महाभूतेषु नानात्वमिन्द्रियार्थेषु मूर्तिषु । विनियोगं च भूतानां धातैव विदधात्युत ॥
English Translation
It is the Ordained himself who attaches variety to the great entities to the objects of the senses and to size or bulk of existent matter, and settles the relations of creatures with those various entities.
केचित्पुरुषकारं तु प्राहुः कर्मविदो जनाः । दैवमित्यपरे विप्राः स्वभावं भूतचिन्तकाः ॥
English Translation
Of men who had devoted themselves to the science of things, there are some who say that, in the production of effects, Exertion is supreme. Some learned persons hold that Destiny is supreme, and some that it is Nature which is the agent.
पौरुषं कर्म दैवं च फलवृत्तिस्वभावतः । त्रय एतेऽपृथग्भूता नविवेकं तु केचन ॥
English Translation
Others hold that Acts flowing from Exertion and Destiny, produce effects, helped by Nature. Instead of considering any of these as alone powerful for the production of effects, they say that it is the union of all three that produces all effects.
एवमेतच्च नैवं च यद्भूतं सृजते जगत् । कर्मस्था विषमं ब्रूयुः सत्त्वस्थाः समदर्शिनः ॥
English Translation
About this subject, some say that such is the case; some, that such is not the case; some, that both of these are not the case; and some that it is not that the reverse of both are not. These, of course, are the contentions of those who depend on Acts, with reference to objects. They, however, whose see the truth consider Brahma as the causes.
तपो निःश्रेयसं जन्तोस्तस्य मूलं दमः शमः । तेन सर्वानवाप्नोति यान्कामान्मनसेच्छति ॥
English Translation
Penance is the greatest good for living creatures. The roots of penance are tranquillity and self-control. By penance one acquires all things that he longs for in his mind.
तपसा तदवाप्नोति यद्भूतं सृजते जगत् । स तद्भूतश्च सर्वेषां भूतानां भवति प्रभुः ॥
English Translation
By penance one attains to that Being who creates the universe. He who thus succeeds in attaining to that Being becomes the powerful lord of all beings.
ऋषयस्तपसा वेदानध्यैषन्त दिवानिशम् । अनादिनिधना नित्या वागुत्सृष्टा स्वयंभुवा ॥
English Translation
it is by penance that the Rishis can read the Vedas without interruption. In the beginning the self-create caused those excellent Vedic sounds, that are embodiments of knowledge and that have neither beginning nor end. From those sounds have sprung all sorts of actions.
ऋषीणां नामधेयानि याश्च वेदेषु सृष्टयः । शर्वर्यन्तेषु जातानां तान्येवैभ्यो ददाति सः ॥
नामभेदस्तपःकर्मयज्ञाख्या लोकसिद्धयः । आत्मसिद्धिस्तु वेदेषु प्रोच्यते दशभिः क्रमैः ॥
English Translation
in the Vedas has been described the subject of the Soul's Liberation, along with the ten means formed by study of the Vedas, adoption of the domestic mode of life. penances, observance of all duties, common to all the modes of life, sacrifices, performance of all acts leading to pure fame meditation which is of three kinds, and that kind of Liberation called success (Siddhi) attainable in this life.
यदुक्तं वेदवादेषु गहनं वेददृष्टिभिः । तदन्तेषु यथायुक्तं क्रमयोगेन लक्ष्यते ॥
English Translation
That incomprehensible Brahma which has been described in the words of the Vedas, and which has been described more clearly in the Upanishads by those who have an insight into the Vedas, can be realised by gradually following the practices referred to above.
कर्मजोऽयं पृथग्भावो द्वंद्वयुक्तो वियोगिनः । आत्मसिद्धिस्तु विज्ञाता जहाति प्रायशो बलम् ॥
English Translation
This consciousness of duality, fraught again with that of pairs opposites, is born only of acts in which he is engaged to a person who thinks he has a body. That person, however, who has attained to Liberation aided by his knowledge, drives off by force that consciousness of duality.
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