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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 287

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 287

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 287

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 287 of the classical Mahābhārata with 46 verses.

Total: 46 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.287.1–46 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 2 of 2 (Verses 16 shown)
न ह्यन्यत्तीरमासाद्य पुनस्तर्तुं व्यवस्यति । दुर्लभो दृश्यते ह्यस्य विनिपातो महार्णवे ॥
English Translation
One who has gone to the other end of the ocean, wishes not to cross the sea for returning to the bank whence he had sailed.
यथा भारावसक्ता हि नौर्महाम्भसि तन्तुना । तथा मनोऽभियोगाद्वै शरीरं प्रतिकर्षति ॥
English Translation
As the fisherman, when he wishes, raises with the help of his chord his boat sunk in the waters, similarly the mind by the help of Yoga contemplation, raises individual Soul sunk in the world's ocean and unliberated from consciousness of body.
यथा समुद्रमभितः संस्यूताः सरितोऽपराः । तथाद्या प्रकृतिर्योगादभिसंस्यूयते सदा ॥
English Translation
As all rivers running towards the ocean, join it, so the mind, when engaged in Yoga, becomes united with primal Nature.
स्नेहपाशैर्बहुविधैरासक्तमनसो नराः । प्रकृतिस्था विषीदन्ति जले सैकतवेश्मवत् ॥
English Translation
Men whose minds become fettered by various bonds of affection, and who are sunk in ignorance, meet with destruction like houses of sand in water.
शरीरगृहसंस्थस्य शौचतीर्थस्य देहिनः । बुद्धिमार्गप्रयातस्य सुखं त्विह परत्र च ॥
English Translation
That embodied creature who considers his body as only a house and purity as its sacred water, and who walks along the road of the understanding, acquires happiness both in this world and the next.
विस्तराः क्लेशसंयुक्ताः संक्षेपास्तु सुखावहाः । परार्थं विस्तराः सर्वे त्यागमात्महितं विदुः ॥
English Translation
One who walks along the road recommended by the understanding acquires happiness both in this world and the next. Many of them are fraught with misery; while the Few yield happiness. Fruits represented by Nescience form the Many. Renunciation yields the soul's happiness.
संकल्पजो मित्रवर्गो ज्ञातयः कारणात्मकाः । भार्या दासाश्च पुत्राश्च स्वमर्थमनुयुञ्जते ॥
English Translation
One's friends who originate from his determination, and one's kinsmen whose attachment is due to selfish reasons, one's wives and sons and servants only devour his riches.
न माता न पिता किंचित्कस्यचित्प्रतिपद्यते । दानपथ्योदनो जन्तुः स्वकर्मफलमश्नुते ॥
English Translation
Neither the mother, nor the father, can confer the slightest benefit upon him in the next world. Gifts form the diet upon which he can live. Indeed, one is compelled to enjoy the fruits of his own deeds.
माता पुत्रः पिता भ्राता भार्या मित्रजनस्तथा । अष्टापदपदस्थाने त्वक्षमुद्रेव न्यस्यते ॥
English Translation
The mother, the son, the father, the brother, the wife, and friends, are like lines drawn with gold by the side of gold itself.
सर्वाणि कर्माणि पुरा कृतानि; शुभाशुभान्यात्मनो यान्ति जन्तोः । उपस्थितं कर्मफलं विदित्वा; बुद्धिं तथा चोदयतेऽन्तरात्मा ॥
English Translation
All acts, good and bad, done in pristine lives, visit the doer. Knowing that everything enjoys or suffers at present is the outcome of his pristine deeds, the soul makes the understanding move on different directions.
व्यवसायं समाश्रित्य सहायान्योऽधिगच्छति । न तस्य कश्चिदारम्भः कदाचिदवसीदति ॥
English Translation
Depending on earnest endeavour and equipped with proper aids, he who undertakes to accomplish his tasks never meets with failure.
अद्वैधमनसं युक्तं शूरं धीरं विपश्चितम् । न श्रीः संत्यजते नित्यमादित्यमिव रश्मयः ॥
English Translation
As the rays of light never abandon the Sun, so prosperity never leaves him who has firm faith.
आस्तिक्यव्यवसायाभ्यामुपायाद्विस्मयाद्धिया । यमारभत्यनिन्द्यात्मा न सोऽर्थः परिसीदति ॥
English Translation
That act which a man of pure soul does with faith and earnestness, with the help of proper means, without pride, and with intelligence, becomes never lost.
सर्वः स्वानि शुभाशुभानि नियतं कर्माणि जन्तुः स्वयं; गर्भात्संप्रतिपद्यते तदुभयं यत्तेन पूर्वं कृतम् । मृत्युश्चापरिहारवान्समगतिः कालेन विच्छेदिता; दारोश्चूर्णमिवाश्मसारविहितं कर्मान्तिकं प्रापयेत् ॥
English Translation
A creature obtains from the very time of his residence in the mother's womb all his own acts good and bad that were acquired by him in his pristine lives. Death, which is irresistible, helped by Time which encompasses the destruction of life, takes all creatures to their end like wind scattering the dust of sawed timber.
स्वरूपतामात्मकृतं च विस्तरं; कुलान्वयं द्रव्यसमृद्धिसंचयम् । नरो हि सर्वो लभते यथाकृतं; शुभाशुभेनात्मकृतेन कर्मणा ॥
English Translation
Through acts good and bad done by himself in his pristine lives, man acquires gold and animals, and wives, and children, and honour of birth, and costly possessions, and his entire affluence.
इत्युक्तो जनको राजन्यथातथ्यं मनीषिणा । श्रुत्वा धर्मविदां श्रेष्ठः परां मुदमवाप ह ॥
English Translation
Bhishma continued Thus addressed agreeably to the truth by the sage, Janaka, that foremost of pious men, O king, heard everything the Rishi said and acquired great happiness from it.
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