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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 306

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 306

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 306

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 306 of the classical Mahābhārata with 109 verses.

Total: 109 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.306.1–109 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 4 of 4 (Verses 19 shown)
यत्ते पृष्टं तन्मया चोपदिष्टं; याथातथ्यं तद्विशोको भवस्व । राजन्गच्छस्वैतदर्थस्य पारं; सम्यक्प्रोक्तं स्वस्ति तेऽस्त्वत्र नित्यम् ॥
English Translation
The questions you had put to me, have all been answered by me according to the truth. Do you, therefore, renounce all grief. Go you to the other end of this enquiry. Your questions were good. Blessings on your head for ever.
स एवमनुशास्तस्तु याज्ञवल्क्येन धीमता । प्रीतिमानभवद्राजा मिथिलाधिपतिस्तदा ॥
English Translation
Thus instructed by the intelligent Yajanavalkya, the king of Mithila become filled with joy.
गते मुनिवरे तस्मिन्कृते चापि प्रदक्षिणे । दैवरातिर्नरपतिरासीनस्तत्र मोक्षवित् ॥
English Translation
The king honoured that foremost of ascetics by going round his body. Dismissed by the king, he left his court. King Daivarati, having acquired the knowledge of the religion of Liberation, took his seat, and touching a million kine and a quantity of gold, of gems and jewels, gave them away to a number of Brahmanas.
गोकोटिं स्पर्शयामास हिरण्यस्य तथैव च । रत्नाञ्जलिमथैकं च ब्राह्मणेभ्यो ददौ तदा ॥
English Translation
The king honoured that foremost of ascetics by going round his body. Dismissed by the king, he left his court. King Daivarati, having acquired the knowledge of the religion of Liberation, took his seat, and touching a million kine and a quantity of gold, of gems and jewels, gave them away to a number of Brahmanas.
विदेहराज्यं च तथा प्रतिष्ठाप्य सुतस्य वै । यतिधर्ममुपासंश्चाप्यवसन्मिथिलाधिपः ॥
English Translation
Installing his son in the sovereignty of the Videhas, the old king began to lead the life of a Yati.
सांख्यज्ञानमधीयानो योगशास्त्रं च कृत्स्नशः । धर्माधर्मौ च राजेन्द्र प्राकृतं परिगर्हयन् ॥
English Translation
Taking no notice of all ordinary duties, the king began to study the science of the Sankhyas and the Yogins in full.
अनन्तमिति कृत्वा स नित्यं केवलमेव च । धर्माधर्मौ पुण्यपापे सत्यासत्ये तथैव च ॥
जन्ममृत्यू च राजेन्द्र प्राकृतं तदचिन्तयत् । ब्रह्माव्यक्तस्य कर्मेदमिति नित्यं नराधिप ॥
English Translation
Considering himself to the Infinite, he began to reflect on only the Eternal and Independent One. He renounced all ordinary duties, Virtue and Vice, Truth and Falsehood, Birth and Death, and all other things relating to the principles produced by Nature.
पश्यन्ति योगाः सांख्याश्च स्वशास्त्रकृतलक्षणाः । इष्टानिष्टवियुक्तं हि तस्थौ ब्रह्म परात्परम् । नित्यं तमाहुर्विद्वांसः शुचिस्तस्माच्छुचिर्भव ॥
English Translation
Both Sankhyas and Yogins, according to the teachings of their sciences, consider this universe as the outcome of the action of the Manifest and the Unmanifest.
दीयते यच्च लभते दत्तं यच्चानुमन्यते । ददाति च नरश्रेष्ठ प्रतिगृह्णाति यच्च ह । ददात्यव्यक्तमेवैतत्प्रतिगृह्णाति तच्च वै ॥
आत्मा ह्येवात्मनो ह्येकः कोऽन्यस्त्वत्तोऽधिको भवेत् । एवं मन्यस्व सततमन्यथा मा विचिन्तय ॥
English Translation
The giver, the receiver of the gift, the gift itself, and that what is ordered to be given away, are all to be deemed as the unmanifest Soul. The Soul is the Soul's possession. Who, therefore, can be a stranger to one? Do you think always in this way. Never think otherwise.
यस्याव्यक्तं न विदितं सगुणं निर्गुणं पुनः । तेन तीर्थानि यज्ञाश्च सेवितव्याविपश्चिता ॥
English Translation
He who does not know what is Nature possessed of qualities and what is Soul transcending qualities, only he, not possessed as he is of knowledge, repairs to sacred waters and cerebrates sacrifices.
न स्वाध्यायैस्तपोभिर्वा यज्ञैर्वा कुरुनन्दन । लभतेऽव्यक्तसंस्थानं ज्ञात्वाव्यक्तं महीपते ॥
English Translation
Not by study of the Vedas, not by penances, not by sacrifices, O son of Kuru, can one acquire the status of Brahma. Only when one succeeds in apprehending the Supreme or Unmanifest, he is respected.
तथैव महतः स्थानमाहंकारिकमेव च । अहंकारात्परं चापि स्थानानि समवाप्नुयात् ॥
English Translation
They who wait upon Mahat acquires the regions of Mahat. They who wait upon Consciousness, go to the spot that belongs to Consciousness. They who wait upon what is higher, acquire higher places.
ये त्वव्यक्तात्परं नित्यं जानते शास्त्रतत्पराः । जन्ममृत्युवियुक्तं च वियुक्तं सदसच्च यत् ॥
English Translation
Those persons learned in the scriptures, who succeed in apprehending eternal Brahma which is higher than Unmenifest nature, can acquire that which is above birth and death, which is free from qualities, and which is both existent and non-existent.
एतन्मयाप्तं जनकात्पुरस्ता;त्तेनापि चाप्तं नृप याज्ञवल्क्यात् । ज्ञानं विशिष्टं न तथा हि यज्ञा; ज्ञानेन दुर्गं तरते न यज्ञैः ॥
English Translation
I got all this knowledge from Janaka. The latter had got it from Yajnavalkya. Knowledge is very superior. Sacrifices cannot compare with it. With the help of Knowledge one succeeds in crossing the world's ocean which is beset with difficulties and dangers. One can never cross that by means of sacrifices.
दुर्गं जन्म निधनं चापि राज;न्न भूतिकं ज्ञानविदो वदन्ति । यज्ञैस्तपोभिर्नियमैर्व्रतैश्च; दिवं समासाद्य पतन्ति भूमौ ॥
English Translation
Birth and death, and other obstacles, O king, men of knowledge say, one cannot get over by ordinary exertion. Men acquire heaven through sacrifices, penances, observances. But they have again to drop down therefrom on the Earth. vows, and
तस्मादुपासस्व परं महच्छुचि; शिवं विमोक्षं विमलं पवित्रम् । क्षेत्रज्ञवित्पार्थिव ज्ञानयज्ञ;मुपास्य वै तत्त्वमृषिर्भविष्यसि ॥
English Translation
Do you, therefore, worship with reverence that which is Supreme, most pure, blessed, stainless, and sacred, and which is above all states. By apprehending Soul, O king, and by celebrating the Sacrifice which consists in the acquisition of Knowledge, you will really be wise.
उपनिषदमुपाकरोत्तदा वै; जनकनृपस्य पुरा हि याज्ञवल्क्यः । यदुपगणितशाश्वताव्ययं त;च्छुभममृतत्वमशोकमृच्छतीति ॥
English Translation
In former time, Yajnavalkya did that good to king Janaka which comes from a study of the Upanishads. The Eternal and Immutable Supreme was the subject which the great Rishi had described to the king of Mithila. It enabled him to attain to that Brahma which is auspicious and immortal, and which is above all sorts of sorrows.
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