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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 225

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 225

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 225

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 225 of the classical Mahābhārata with 17 verses.

Total: 17 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.225.1–17 • 250 Lexicon Terms
पृथिव्यां यानि भूतानि जङ्गमानि ध्रुवाणि च । तान्येवाग्रे प्रलीयन्ते भूमित्वमुपयान्ति च ॥
English Translation
All things mobile and immobile that are on the Earth first disappear and merge into the substance of which this planet is formed.
ततः प्रलीने सर्वस्मिन्स्थावरे जङ्गमे तथा । अकाष्ठा निस्तृणा भूमिर्दृश्यते कूर्मपृष्ठवत् ॥
English Translation
After all mobile and immobile objects have thus disappeared, the Earth, shorn of trees and herbs, looks nude like a tortoise shell.
भूमेरपि गुणं गन्धमाप आददते यदा । आत्तगन्धा तदा भूमिः प्रलयत्वाय कल्पते ॥
English Translation
Then water takes up the attribute of earth, viz., scent. When earth becomes shorn of its principal attribute, that element is about to be destroyed.
आपस्ततः प्रतिष्ठन्ति ऊर्मिमत्यो महास्वनाः । सर्वमेवेदमापूर्य तिष्ठन्ति च चरन्ति च ॥
English Translation
Water then prevails. Surging into big billows and roaring dreadfully only water fills this space and moves about or stands still.
अपामपि गुणांस्तात ज्योतिराददते यदा । आपस्तदा आत्तगुणा ज्योतिष्युपरमन्ति च ॥
English Translation
Then the attribute of water is taken by Heat, and losing its own attribute, water emerges in that element.
यदादित्यं स्थितं मध्ये गूहन्ति शिखिनोऽर्चिषः । सर्वमेवेदमर्चिर्भिः पूर्णं जाज्वल्यते नभः ॥
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.
ज्योतिषोऽपि गुणं रूपं वायुराददते यदा । प्रशाम्यति तदा ज्योतिर्वायुर्दोधूयते महान् ॥
English Translation
Then Wind comes and takes the attribute, viz., form, of Heat of Light, which, possessed of great power, begins to be awfully agitated.
ततस्तु मूलमासाद्य वायुः संभवमात्मनः । अधश्चोर्ध्वं च तिर्यक्च दोधवीति दिशो दश ॥
English Translation
Obtaining its own attribute, viz., sound the Wind begins to move upwards and downwards and transversely along all the ten points.
वायोरपि गुणं स्पर्शमाकाशं ग्रसते यदा । प्रशाम्यति तदा वायुः खं तु तिष्ठति नानदत् ॥
English Translation
Then Space takes the attribute, viz., sound, of Wind, upon which the latter is extinguished and enters into a state of existence resembling that of unheard or unuttered sound.
आकाशस्य गुणं शब्दमभिव्यक्तात्मकं मनः । मनसो व्यक्तमव्यक्तं ब्राह्मः स प्रतिसंचरः ॥
English Translation
Then sound, which is the attribute of space, is swallowed up by Mind which is the essence of all manifest things. Thus Mind which in itself is unmanifest withdraws all that is manifested by Mind. This withdrawal of manifest Mind into unmanifest Mind, is called the destruction of the external universe.
तदात्मगुणमाविश्य मनो ग्रसति चन्द्रमाः । मनस्युपरतेऽध्यात्मा चन्द्रमस्यवतिष्ठते ॥
English Translation
Then the Moon having made Mind withdraw its attribute into itself, swallows it up. When Mind, ceasing to exist, thus enters into the Moon, the other attributes of Creator are all that remain.
तं तु कालेन महता संकल्पः कुरुते वशे । चित्तं ग्रसति संकल्पस्तच्च ज्ञानमनुत्तमम् ॥
English Translation
This Moon which is called also determination, is then, after a very long time, brought under Creator's sway, the reason being that determination has to perform a very difficult work, viz., the destruction of the faculties that are employed in the process of judgement. When this has been done, the condition reached is said to be of high knowledge.
कालो गिरति विज्ञानं कालो बलमिति श्रुतिः । बलं कालो ग्रसति तु तं विद्वान्कुरुते वशे ॥
English Translation
Then time swallows up this Knowledge, and as the Shruti says, Time itself in its turn is devoured by Might or Energy. Might or cnergy, however, is (again) devoured by time, which last is then brought under her sway by kilowledge.
आकाशस्य तदा घोषं तं विद्वान्कुरुतेऽऽत्मनि । तदव्यक्तं परं ब्रह्म तच्छाश्वतमनुत्तमम् । एवं सर्वाणि भूतानि ब्रह्मैव प्रतिसंचरः ॥
English Translation
Possessed of Knowledge, the Creator then swallows up non-existence itself into his Soui. That is Unmanifest and Supreme Brahma. That is Eternal, and that is the Highest of the High. Thus all existent creatures are withdrawn into Brahma.
यथावत्कीर्तितं सम्यगेवमेतदसंशयम् । बोध्यं विद्यामयं दृष्ट्वा योगिभिः परमात्मभिः ॥
English Translation
Truly has this, which should be conceived (with the aid of the scriptures) and which is a topic of Science, been thus said by Yogins endued with Supreme Souls, after actual experience.
एवं विस्तारसंक्षेपौ ब्रह्माव्यक्ते पुनः पुनः । युगसाहस्रयोरादावह्नो रात्र्यास्तथैव च ॥
English Translation
Even thus does Unmanifest Brahma repeatedly practise the processes of Creation and Destruction, and even thus are Brahman's Day and Night each consisting of a thousand Yugas.
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