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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 105

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 105

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 105

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 105 of the classical Mahābhārata with 54 verses.

Total: 54 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.105.1–54 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
धार्मिकोऽर्थानसंप्राप्य राजामात्यैः प्रबाधितः । च्युतः कोशाच्च दण्डाच्च सुखमिच्छन्कथं चरेत् ॥
English Translation
How should a righteous king, who is proposed by his own officers whose treasury and army are not under his control, and who has no wealth, act for acquiring happiness?"
अत्रायं क्षेमदर्शीयमितिहासोऽनुगीयते । तत्तेऽहं संप्रवक्ष्यामि तन्निबोध युधिष्ठिर ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said “Regarding it the story of Kshemadarshin is often related. I shall describe that story to you. Listen to it, O Yudhishthira.
क्षेमदर्शं नृपसुतं यत्र क्षीणबलं पुरा । मुनिः कालकवृक्षीय आजगामेति नः श्रुतम् । तं पप्रच्छोपसंगृह्य कृच्छ्रामापदमास्थितः ॥
English Translation
We have heard that in days of yore, when prince Kshemadarshin had become weak in strength and fallen into great distress, he went to the sage Kalakavrikshiva and saluting him humbly, said him these words,
अर्थेषु भागी पुरुष ईहमानः पुनः पुनः । अलब्ध्वा मद्विधो राज्यं ब्रह्मन्किं कर्तुमर्हति ॥
English Translation
What should a person like me who is worthy to have wealth, but who has, after repeated attempts, failed to regain his kingdom, do, O Brahmana, excepting suicide, thieving and robbery, secking refuge with others, and other acts of meanness of a similar nature? O best of men, tell me this.
अन्यत्र मरणात्स्तेयादन्यत्र परसंश्रयात् । क्षुद्रादन्यत्र चाचारात्तन्ममाचक्ष्व सत्तम ॥
व्याधिना चाभिपन्नस्य मानसेनेतरेण वा । बहुश्रुतः कृतप्रज्ञस्त्वद्विधः शरणं भवेत् ॥
English Translation
One like you who are conversant with morality and full of gratefulness is the refuge of a person suffering from disease mental or physical.
निर्विद्य हि नरः कामान्नियम्य सुखमेधते । त्यक्त्वा प्रीतिं च शोकं च लब्ध्वाप्रीतिमयं वसु ॥
English Translation
Man should renounce his desires. By acting in that way, by casting off joy and sorrow, and acquiring the wealth of knowledge, he succeeds in acquiring happiness.
सुखमर्थाश्रयं येषामनुशोचामि तानहम् । मम ह्यर्थाः सुबहवो नष्टाः स्वप्न इवागताः ॥
English Translation
I am sorry for them who follow worldly happiness accruing from wealth. All that, however, disappears like a dream.
दुष्करं बत कुर्वन्ति महतोऽर्थांस्त्यजन्ति ये । वयं त्वेनान्परित्यक्तुमसतोऽपि न शक्नुमः ॥
English Translation
They who can renounce vast wealth achieve a most difficult task. As for ourselves we are unable to renounce that wealth which exists no longer.
इमामवस्थां संप्राप्तं दीनमार्तं श्रियश्च्युतम् । यदन्यत्सुखमस्तीह तद्ब्रह्मन्ननुशाधि माम् ॥
English Translation
I am shorn of prosperity and have been reduced to a miserable and unhappy plight! Instruct me, O Brahmana, what happiness I may yet try to secure.
कौसल्येनैवमुक्तस्तु राजपुत्रेण धीमता । मुनिः कालकवृक्षीयः प्रत्युवाच महाद्युतिः ॥
English Translation
Thus accosted by the intelligent prince of Koshala, the sage Kalakavrikshiya gave the following answer,
पुरस्तादेव ते बुद्धिरियं कार्या विजानतः । अनित्यं सर्वमेवेदमहं च मम चास्ति यत् ॥
English Translation
The sage said-You have, it appears, already understood it. Endued with knowledge as you are, you should act as you think. Your belief is correct, namely,-All this that I see is brittle, myself as also everything that I have!
यत्किंचिन्मन्यसेऽस्तीति सर्वं नास्तीति विद्धि तत् । एवं न व्यथते प्राज्ञः कृच्छ्रामप्यापदं गतः ॥
English Translation
Know, O prince, that those things which you consider as existing do not in reality exist. The wise know this very well, and are, therefore, never pained with the distress whatever that may be.
यद्धि भूतं भविष्यच्च ध्रुवं तन्न भविष्यति । एवं विदितवेद्यस्त्वमधर्मेभ्यः प्रमोक्ष्यसे ॥
English Translation
What has taken place and what will bring to pass are all unreal, When you will know this which should be known by all, you will be shorn of unrighteousness.
यच्च पूर्वे समाहारे यच्च पूर्वतरे परे । सर्वं तन्नास्ति तच्चैव तज्ज्ञात्वा कोऽनुसंज्वरेत् ॥
English Translation
Whatever things had been acquired by those that came before, and whatever acquired by their successors, have all perished. Thinking of all this, who is there that will give way to grief?
भूत्वा च न भवत्येतदभूत्वा च भवत्यपि । शोके न ह्यस्ति सामर्थ्यं शोकं कुर्यात्कथं नरः ॥
English Translation
Things that were, are no more. Things that are, will again be no more. Grief cannot restore them. One should not, therefore, succumb to grief.
क्व नु तेऽद्य पिता राजन्क्व नु तेऽद्य पितामहः । न त्वं पश्यसि तानद्य न त्वा पश्यन्ति तेऽपि च ॥
English Translation
Where, O king, is your father to-day and where your grandfather? To-day you see them not, nor do they now see you!
आत्मनोऽध्रुवतां पश्यंस्तांस्त्वं किमनुशोचसि । बुद्ध्या चैवानुबुध्यस्व ध्रुवं हि न भविष्यसि ॥
English Translation
Meditating on your own instability, why do you grieve for them? Think with the help of your intelligence, and you will understand that you will cease to be!
अहं च त्वं च नृपते शत्रवः सुहृदश्च ते । अवश्यं न भविष्यामः सर्वं च न भविष्यति ॥
English Translation
Myself, yourself, O king, your friends, and your foes, shall forsooth, cease to be. Indeed, everything will cease to be.
ये तु विंशतिवर्षा वै त्रिंशद्वर्षाश्च मानवाः । अर्वागेव हि ते सर्वे मरिष्यन्ति शरच्छतात् ॥
English Translation
Those men who are now twenty or thirty years old, will, forsooth, all die within the next hundred years.
अपि चेन्महतो वित्ताद्विप्रमुच्येत पूरुषः । नैतन्ममेति तन्मत्वा कुर्वीत प्रियमात्मनः ॥
English Translation
If a man cannot willingly relinquish his immense wealth, he should then try to think that his belongings, are not his own and by that means seek to do good to himself.
अनागतं यन्न ममेति विद्या;दतिक्रान्तं यन्न ममेति विद्यात् । दिष्टं बलीय इति मन्यमाना;स्ते पण्डितास्तत्सतां स्थानमाहुः ॥
English Translation
Future acquisitions should be considered by one as not one's own. Lost properties, should also be regarded by one as not his own. Destiny should be deemed as all powerful. They who think in this wise are considered wise. This mood of regarding all things is an attribute of the good.
अनाढ्याश्चापि जीवन्ति राज्यं चाप्यनुशासते । बुद्धिपौरुषसंपन्नास्त्वया तुल्याधिका जनाः ॥
English Translation
Many persons who are equal of superior to you in intelligence and inanliness, though bereft of wealth, are not kings but are still alive.
न च त्वमिव शोचन्ति तस्मात्त्वमपि मा शुचः । किं नु त्वं तैर्न वै श्रेयांस्तुल्यो वा बुद्धिपौरुषैः ॥
English Translation
They are not, like you. They do not indulge in grief like you. Therefore, ceases to grieve in this wise! Are you not superior to those men, or at least equal to them in intelligence and inanliness?
यादृच्छिकं ममासीत्तद्राज्यमित्येव चिन्तये । ह्रियते सर्वमेवेदं कालेन महता द्विज ॥
English Translation
The king said I consider the kingdom which I had with all its parapharnalia to have been acquired by me without any exertion. Omnipotent Time, however, twice-born one, has swept it away.
तस्यैवं ह्रियमाणस्य स्रोतसेव तपोधन । फलमेतत्प्रपश्यामि यथालब्धेन वर्तये ॥
English Translation
The result, however, that I see, of my kingdom having been carried away by Time as by a stream, is that I am obliged to subsist upon whatever I get as alms.
अनागतमतीतं च यथा तथ्यविनिश्चयात् । नानुशोचसि कौसल्य सर्वार्थेषु तथा भव ॥
English Translation
The sage said Actuated by the knowledge of what is true, one should never grieve for either the past or the future. Be you of such a mood of mind, o prince of Koshala, regarding every affair that may arrest your attention!
अवाप्यान्कामयस्वार्थान्नानवाप्यान्कदाचन । प्रत्युत्पन्नाननुभवन्मा शुचस्त्वमनागतान् ॥
English Translation
Wishing to possess only that which is obtainable and not what is unobtainable, do you enjoy your present belongings and never grieve for what is absent.
यथा लब्धोपपन्नार्थस्तथा कौसल्य रंस्यसे । कच्चिच्छुद्धस्वभावेन श्रिया हीनो न शोचसि ॥
English Translation
Be you satisfied, O prince of Koshala, with whatever you can easily get. Even if divested of prosperity, do not grieve for it but try to maintain a pure character.
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