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Mahābhārata • Parva 14 (Aśvamedhikaparva) • Adhyāya 35

Aśvamedhikaparva Adhyāya 35

अश्वमेधिकपर्व • अध्यायः 35

Aśvamedhikaparva Adhyāya 35 of the classical Mahābhārata with 41 verses.

Total: 41 Verses • Citations: MBh 14.35.1–41 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 2 of 2 (Verses 11 shown)
ब्रह्मचारिकमेवाहुराश्रमं प्रथमं पदम् । गार्हस्थ्यं तु द्वितीयं स्याद्वानप्रस्थमतः परम् । ततः परं तु विज्ञेयमध्यात्मं परमं पदम् ॥
English Translation
The second step is domesticity. After this is the residence in the forcst. After that it should be known is the highest step, viz., that belongs to Adhyatma.
ज्योतिराकाशमादित्यो वायुरिन्द्रः प्रजापतिः । नोपैति यावदध्यात्मं तावदेतान्न पश्यति । तस्योपायं प्रवक्ष्यामि पुरस्तात्तं निबोधत ॥
English Translation
Light, ether, sun, wind, Indra, and Prajapati, one sees these as long as one does not acquire Adhyatma.
फलमूलानिलभुजां मुनीनां वसतां वने । वानप्रस्थं द्विजातीनां त्रयाणामुपदिश्यते ॥
English Translation
I shall declare the means. Do you first understand them. The forest mode of life that is followed by ascetics living in the forest and subsisting upon fruits and roots and air is laid down for the three twice-born classes. The domestic mode of life is ordained for all the orders.
सर्वेषामेव वर्णानां गार्हस्थ्यं तद्विधीयते । श्रद्धालक्षणमित्येवं धर्मं धीराः प्रचक्षते ॥
इत्येते देवयाना वः पन्थानः परिकीर्तिताः । सद्भिरध्यासिता धीरैः कर्मभिर्धर्मसेतवः ॥
English Translation
The wise say that Religion or duty has Faith for its characteristic mark. Thus have I declared to you the paths leading to the celestials. They are adopted by the good and wise by their a 'ts. Those paihs are the causeways of picty.
एतेषां पृथगध्यास्ते यो धर्मं संशितव्रतः । कालात्पश्यति भूतानां सदैव प्रभवाप्ययौ ॥
English Translation
That persons of rigid vows who follows any one of these modes separately, always succeeds in time to understand the production and destruction of all creatures.
अतस्तत्त्वानि वक्ष्यामि याथातथ्येन हेतुना । विषयस्थानि सर्वाणि वर्तमानानि भागशः ॥
English Translation
I shall now declarc, accurately and with reasons, the elements which live in parts in all objects.
महानात्मा तथाव्यक्तमहंकारस्तथैव च । इन्द्रियाणि दशैकं च महाभूतानि पञ्च च ॥
English Translation
The great soul, the uninanifest, egoisin, the eleven organs (of knowledge and action), the five great elements, the characteristics of the five elements, these form the eternal creation. The number of clements has been said to be twenty-four and one (more).
विशेषाः पञ्चभूतानामित्येषा वैदिकी श्रुतिः । चतुर्विंशतिरेषा वस्तत्त्वानां संप्रकीर्तिता ॥
तत्त्वानामथ यो वेद सर्वेषां प्रभवाप्ययौ । स धीरः सर्वभूतेषु न मोहमधिगच्छति ॥
English Translation
That wise person who understands the production and destruction of all these elements, that man among all creatures, never meets with delusion.
तत्त्वानि यो वेदयते यथातथं; गुणांश्च सर्वानखिलाश्च देवताः । विधूतपाप्मा प्रविमुच्य बन्धनं; स सर्वलोकानमलान्समश्नुते ॥
English Translation
Hc who understands the elements accurately, all the qualities, all the celestials, succeeds in purifying himself of all sin. Freed from all fetters, such a man succeeds in enjoying all regions of spotless purity.
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