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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 3 of 3 (Verses 16 shown)
द्वे ब्रह्मणी वेदितव्ये शब्दब्रह्म परं च यत् । शब्दब्रह्मणि निष्णातः परं ब्रह्माधिगच्छति ॥
English Translation
Two Brahmas should be known viz., the Brahma represented by the Vedas and that which is beyond the Vedas and is supreme. One who is conversant with Brahma represented by sound succeeds in attaining to Brahma that is Supreme.
आरम्भयज्ञाः क्षत्रस्य हविर्यज्ञा विशस्तथा । परिचारयज्ञाः शूद्रास्तु तपोयज्ञा द्विजातयः ॥
English Translation
The destruction of animals is the sacrifice sanctioned for the Kshatriyas. The growing of corn is the sacrifice sanctioned for the Vaisshyas. Serving the three other orders is the sacrifice sanctioned for the Shudras. Penance is the sacrifice sanctioned for the Brahmanas.
त्रेतायुगे विधिस्त्वेषां यज्ञानां न कृते युगे । द्वापरे विप्लवं यान्ति यज्ञाः कलियुगे तथा ॥
English Translation
In the Krita age the perforinance of sacrifices was not required. Such performance became necessary in the Treta age. In the Dvapara, sacrifices have begun to fall off. In the Kali, the same is the case with them,
अपृथग्धर्मिणो मर्त्या ऋक्सामानि यजूंषि च । काम्यां पुष्टिं पृथग्दृष्ट्वा तपोभिस्तप एव च ॥
English Translation
In the Krita age, worshipping only one Brahma, men regarded the Richs, the Samans, the Yajushas, and the rites and sacrifices that are performed from motives of advantage, as all different from the object of their worship, and practised only Yoga by means of penances.
त्रेतायां तु समस्तास्ते प्रादुरासन्महाबलाः । संयन्तारः स्थावराणां जङ्गमानां च सर्वशः ॥
English Translation
In the Treta age, many powerful men flourished who governed all mobile and immobile objects.
त्रेतायां संहता ह्येते यज्ञा वर्णास्तथैव च । संरोधादायुषस्त्वेते व्यस्यन्ते द्वापरे युगे ॥
English Translation
Accordingly, in that age, the Vedas, and sacrifices, and the distinctions between the several orders, and the four modes of life, existed in a body. On account, however, of the decrease in the period of life in Dvapara, all these, it that age, fall off from that compact condition.
दृश्यन्ते नापि दृश्यन्ते वेदाः कलियुगेऽखिलाः । उत्सीदन्ते सयज्ञाश्च केवला धर्मसेतवः ॥
English Translation
In the Kali age, all the Vedas become so scarce that they are not seen by men. Afflicted by iniquity, they become extinct along with the rites and sacrifices laid down in them.
कृते युगे यस्तु धर्मो ब्राह्मणेषु प्रदृश्यते । आत्मवत्सु तपोवत्सु श्रुतवत्सु प्रतिष्ठितः ॥
English Translation
The righteousness which is seen in the Krita age is now seen in such Brahmanas as are of purified souls and as are devoted to penances and the study of the scriptures.
अधर्मव्रतसंयोगं यथाधर्मं युगे युगे । विक्रियन्ते स्वधर्मस्था वेदवादा यथायुगम् ॥
English Translation
As regards the other cycles, it is seen that without at once giving up the duties and acts that are consistent with righteousness, men, observing the practices of their respective orders, and conversant with the ordinances of the Vedas, are led, by the authority of the scriptures, and from motives of advantage and interest to perform sacrifices and vows and sojourns to sacred waters and places.
यथा विश्वानि भूतानि वृष्ट्या भूयांसि प्रावृषि । सृज्यन्ते जङ्गमस्थानि तथा धर्मा युगे युगे ॥
English Translation
As in the rainy reason a large variety of new objets of the immobile order are caused to come into being by the showers that fall from the clouds, so many new kinds of duty or religious observances are brought about in each new cycle.
यथर्तुष्वृतुलिङ्गानि नानारूपाणि पर्यये । दृश्यन्ते तानि तान्येव तथा ब्रह्माहरात्रिषु ॥
English Translation
As the same phenomena reappear with the reappearance of the seasons, so, at each new Creation of the same attributes appear in each new Brahman and Hara.
विहितं कालनानात्वमनादिनिधनं तथा । कीर्तितं यत्पुरस्तात्ते तत्सूते चात्ति च प्रजाः ॥
English Translation
I have, before this, spoken to you of Time which is without beginning and without end, which ordains this variety in the universe. It is that Time which creates and destroys all creatures.
दधाति प्रभवे स्थानं भूतानां संयमो यमः । स्वभावेनैव वर्तन्ते द्वंद्वयुक्तानि भूरिशः ॥
English Translation
All the numberless creatures which exist subject to pairs of opposites and according to their respective natures, have Time for their refuge. It is Time that puts on those forms and it is Time which upholds them.]
सर्गः कालः क्रिया वेदाः कर्ता कार्यं क्रिया फलम् । प्रोक्तं ते पुत्र सर्वं वै यन्मां त्वं परिपृच्छसि ॥
English Translation
I have thus described to you, O son, the topics about which you had asked, viz., Creation, Time, Sacrifices and other rites, the Vedas, the real actor in the universe, action, and the results of action.
प्रत्याहारं तु वक्ष्यामि शर्वर्यादौ गतेऽहनि । यथेदं कुरुतेऽध्यात्मं सुसूक्ष्मं विश्वमीश्वरः ॥
English Translation
Vyasa said I shall now tell you how, when his day is gone and his night comes, he withdraws ali things to himself, or how the Supreme Master, making this gross universe exceedingly subtile, inerges every thing into his Soul.
दिवि सूर्यास्तथा सप्त दहन्ति शिखिनोऽर्चिषा । सर्वमेतत्तदार्चिर्भिः पूर्णं जाज्वल्यते जगत् ॥
English Translation
When the time for universal dissolution comes twelve Suns, and Agni with his seven flames, begin to burn. Wrapt by those flames, the entire universe begins to blaze forth in a huge fire.
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