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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 293

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 293

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 293

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 293 of the classical Mahābhārata with 51 verses.

Total: 51 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.293.1–51 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 2 of 2 (Verses 21 shown)
यदेव योगाः पश्यन्ति सांख्यैस्तदनुगम्यते । एकं सांख्यं च योगं च यः पश्यति स बुद्धिमान् ॥
English Translation
That which the Yogins behold is exactly what the Sankhyas strive after to attain. He who sees the Sankhya and the Yoga Systems to be one and the same is said to be gifted with intelligence.
त्वङ्मांसं रुधिरं मेदः पित्तं मज्जास्थि स्नायु च । एतदैन्द्रियकं तात यद्भवानिदमाह वै ॥
English Translation
Skin, flesh, blood, fat, bile, marrow, and sinews, and these senses, which you were speaking to me, exist.
द्रव्याद्द्रव्यस्य निष्पत्तिरिन्द्रियादिन्द्रियं तथा । देहाद्देहमवाप्नोति बीजाद्बीजं तथैव च ॥
English Translation
Objects originate from objects; the senses from the senses. From body one acquires a body, as a seed is obtained from seed.
निरिन्द्रियस्याबीजस्य निर्द्रव्यस्यास्य देहिनः । कथं गुणा भविष्यन्ति निर्गुणत्वान्महात्मनः ॥
English Translation
When the Supreme Being is without senses, without seed, without matter, without body, He must be divested of all qualities; and on account of His being so, how, indeed, can He have qualities of any kind?
गुणा गुणेषु जायन्ते तत्रैव निविशन्ति च । एवं गुणाः प्रकृतितो जायन्ते च न सन्ति च ॥
English Translation
Ether and other qualities originate from the qualities of Goodness, Darkness, and Ignorance, and disappear in the end in them. Thus the qualities arise from Nature and disappear in Nature.
त्वङ्मांसं रुधिरं मेदः पित्तं मज्जास्थि स्नायु च । अष्टौ तान्यथ शुक्रेण जानीहि प्राकृतानि वै ॥
English Translation
Skin, flesh, blood, fat, bile, marrow, and sinews, and these senses, which you were speaking to me, exist.
पुमांश्चैवापुमांश्चैव त्रैलिङ्ग्यं प्राकृतं स्मृतम् । नैव पुमान्पुमांश्चैव स लिङ्गीत्यभिधीयते ॥
English Translation
The Individual Soul and the universe are said to both partake of Nature characterised by the three qualities of Goodness, Darkness, and Ignorance. The Supreme Soul is different from both the Individual Soul and the universe.
अलिङ्गा प्रकृतिर्लिङ्गैरुपलभ्यति सात्मजैः । यथा पुष्पफलैर्नित्यमृतवो मूर्तयस्तथा ॥
English Translation
As the seasons, though having no forms, are nevertheless inferred from the appearance of particular fruits and flowers, similarly, Nature, though formless, is inferred from the Principles of Greatness and the rest that originate from it.
एवमप्यनुमानेन ह्यलिङ्गमुपलभ्यते । पञ्चविंशतिमस्तात लिङ्गेष्वनियतात्मकः ॥
English Translation
Thus, from the existence of Consciousness in body, the Supreme Soul, shorn of all qualities whatever and perfectly stainless, is inferred.
अनादिनिधनोऽनन्तः सर्वदर्शी निरामयः । केवलं त्वभिमानित्वाद्गुणेष्वगुण उच्यते ॥
English Translation
Without beginning and destruction, without end, the seer of all things, and auspicious, that Soul, only on account of its Oneness with the body and other qualities, comes to be taken as invested with qualities.
गुणा गुणवतः सन्ति निर्गुणस्य कुतो गुणाः । तस्मादेवं विजानन्ति ये जना गुणदर्शिनः ॥
English Translation
Those persons who are truly conversant with qualities know that only objects endued with qualities can have attributes but that That which is above all qualities can have none.
यदा त्वेष गुणान्सर्वान्प्राकृतानभिमन्यते । तदा स गुणवानेव परमेणानुपश्यति ॥
English Translation
When the Individual Soul conquers all qualities born of Nature and which it assumes under mistake, only then does it see the Supreme Soul.
यत्तद्बुद्धेः परं प्राहुः सांख्या योगाश्च सर्वशः । बुध्यमानं महाप्राज्ञमबुद्धपरिवर्जनात् ॥
अप्रबुद्धमथाव्यक्तं सगुणं प्राहुरीश्वरम् । निर्गुणं चेश्वरं नित्यमधिष्ठातारमेव च ॥
प्रकृतेश्च गुणानां च पञ्चविंशतिकं बुधाः । सांख्ययोगे च कुशला बुध्यन्ते परमैषिणः ॥
यदा प्रबुद्धास्त्वव्यक्तमवस्थाजन्मभीरवः । बुध्यमानं प्रबुध्यन्ति गमयन्ति समं तदा ॥
English Translation
When men of knowledge, who stand in fear of birth, of the several states of living consciousness, and of death, succeed in knowing the Unmanifest, they succeed in understanding the Supreme Soul at the same time.
एतन्निदर्शनं सम्यगसम्यगनुदर्शनम् । बुध्यमानाप्रबुद्धाभ्यां पृथक्पृथगरिंदम ॥
English Translation
An intelligent man considers the unity of the Individual Soul with the Supreme Soul as consistent with the scriptures and as perfectly correct; while the man shorn of intelligence considers the two as different from each other. This forms the distinction between the man of intelligence and the man that is shorn of it.
परस्परेणैतदुक्तं क्षराक्षरनिदर्शनम् । एकत्वमक्षरं प्राहुर्नानात्वं क्षरमुच्यते ॥
English Translation
The Characteristics of both the Destructible and Indestructible have now been said to you. The indestructible is Oneness or Unity, while multiplicity or variety is said to be the Destructible.
पञ्चविंशतिनिष्ठोऽयं यदासम्यक्प्रवर्तते । एकत्वं दर्शनं चास्य नानात्वं चाप्यदर्शनम् ॥
English Translation
When one begins to study and understand property the twenty-five topics of enquiry, one then understands that the oneness of the Soul is consistent with the scriptures and its multiplicity is what is opposed to them.
तत्त्वनिस्तत्त्वयोरेतत्पृथगेव निदर्शनम् । पञ्चविंशतिसर्गं तु तत्त्वमाहुर्मनीषिणः ॥
English Translation
These are the several characteristics of what is included in the list of topics is beyond that number and forms and twenty-sixth. The study or comprehension of created things according to their aggregates (of five) is the study and comprehension of topics. Above these is That which is eternal.
निस्तत्त्वं पञ्चविंशस्य परमाहुर्निदर्शनम् । वर्गस्य वर्गमाचारं तत्त्वं तत्त्वात्सनातनम् ॥
English Translation
These are the several characteristics of what is included in the list of topics is beyond that number and forms and twenty-sixth. The study or comprehension of created things according to their aggregates (of five) is the study and comprehension of topics. Above these is That which is eternal.
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