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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 168

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 168

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 168

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 168 of the classical Mahābhārata with 54 verses.

Total: 54 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.168.1–54 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
धर्माः पितामहेनोक्ता राजधर्माश्रिताः शुभाः । धर्ममाश्रमिणां श्रेष्ठं वक्तुमर्हसि पार्थिव ॥
English Translation
Yudhishthira said You have, O grandfather, described the sacred duties of kings regarding the persons in distress. O king, you should tell me now those foremost of duties of those who lead the (four) modes of life.
सर्वत्र विहितो धर्मः स्वर्ग्यः सत्यफलं तपः । बहुद्वारस्य धर्मस्य नेहास्ति विफला क्रिया ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said Religion has many doors. The observance of the duties sanctioned by religion can never be useless. Duties have been laid down regarding every mode of life. The fruits of Penance with regard to the development of the Soul, are to be had in this worid.
यस्मिन्यस्मिंस्तु विनये यो यो याति विनिश्चयम् । स तमेवाभिजानाति नान्यं भरतसत्तम ॥
English Translation
The object to which one devotes oneself, whatever it may be, O Bharata, and nothing else, appears to as the highest of acquisitions fraught with the greatest of blessings.
यथा यथा च पर्येति लोकतन्त्रमसारवत् । तथा तथा विरागोऽत्र जायते नात्र संशयः ॥
English Translation
When one meditates properly, one comes to know that the things of this world are useless one as straw. Forsooth, one is then freed from attachment of those things.
एवं व्यवसिते लोके बहुदोषे युधिष्ठिर । आत्ममोक्षनिमित्तं वै यतेत मतिमान्नरः ॥
English Translation
When the world, O Yudhishthira, which is full of shortcomings, is so framed, every intelligent man, should try to acquire the liberation of his soul.
नष्टे धने वा दारे वा पुत्रे पितरि वा मृते । यया बुद्ध्या नुदेच्छोकं तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह ॥
English Translation
Yudhishthira said Tell me, O grandfather, by what condition of mind should one kill his grief when he loses his riches, or his wife, or son, or father.
नष्टे धने वा दारे वा पुत्रे पितरि वा मृते । अहो दुःखमिति ध्यायञ्शोकस्यापचितिं चरेत् ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said, When one's wealth is lost, or one's wife or son or father is dead, he certainly says to oneself,-Alas, it is a great sorrow,-But then one should, by the help of meditation, try to kill that grief.
अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम् । यथा सेनजितं विप्रः कश्चिदित्यब्रवीद्वचः ॥
English Translation
Regarding it is mentioned the old story of the speech that a twice-born friend of his, coming to Senajit's court, made to that king.
पुत्रशोकाभिसंतप्तं राजानं शोकविह्वलम् । विषण्णवदनं दृष्ट्वा विप्रो वचनमब्रवीत् ॥
English Translation
Seeing the monarch stricken with grief and burning with sorrow on account of the death of his son, the Brahmana said to that king of very
किं नु खल्वसि मूढस्त्वं शोच्यः किमनुशोचसि । यदा त्वामपि शोचन्तः शोच्या यास्यन्ति तां गतिम् ॥
English Translation
Why are you stupefied? You are without any intelligence. You are yourself an object of grief, why do you grieve (for others)? A few days hence others will grieve for you, and in their turn they will be grieved for by others still.
त्वं चैवाहं च ये चान्ये त्वां राजन्पर्युपासते । सर्वे तत्र गमिष्यामो यत एवागता वयम् ॥
English Translation
Yourself, myself, and others who wait upon you, O king, shall all repair whence all of us have come.
का बुद्धिः किं तपो विप्र कः समाधिस्तपोधन । किं ज्ञानं किं श्रुतं वा ते यत्प्राप्य न विषीदसि ॥
English Translation
Senajit said What is that intelligence, what that penance, O learned Brahmana, what that concentration of mind, O you having asceticism for wealth, what that knowledge, and what that learning, by gaining which you do not give way to grief?
पश्य भूतानि दुःखेन व्यतिषक्तानि सर्वशः । आत्मापि चायं न मम सर्वा वा पृथिवी मम ॥
यथा मम तथान्येषामिति बुद्ध्या न मे व्यथा । एतां बुद्धिमहं प्राप्य न प्रहृष्ये न च व्यथे ॥
यथा काष्ठं च काष्ठं च समेयातां महोदधौ । समेत्य च व्यपेयातां तद्वद्भूतसमागमः ॥
English Translation
Having gained such an understanding, I do not give way to joy or to grief. As two pieces of wood floating on the sea meet together at one time and are again separated, so is the union of (living) creatures in this world.
एवं पुत्राश्च पौत्राश्च ज्ञातयो बान्धवास्तथा । तेषु स्नेहो न कर्तव्यो विप्रयोगो हि तैर्ध्रुवम् ॥
English Translation
Sons, grandsons, kinsmen relatives, are all of this nature. One should One should never feel attachment for them, for separation with them is inevitable.
अदर्शनादापतितः पुनश्चादर्शनं गतः । न त्वासौ वेद न त्वं तं कः सन्कमनुशोचसि ॥
English Translation
Your son came from an invisible quarter. He has gone away and become invisible. He did not know you. You did not know him. Who are you and for whom do you grieve.
तृष्णार्तिप्रभवं दुःखं दुःखार्तिप्रभवं सुखम् । सुखात्संजायते दुःखमेवमेतत्पुनः पुनः । सुखस्यानन्तरं दुःखं दुःखस्यानन्तरं सुखम् ॥
English Translation
Grief is the child of the disease created by desire. Happiness again comes when the disease of desire is cured. From joy originates sorrow, and sorrow comes again and again.
सुखात्त्वं दुःखमापन्नः पुनरापत्स्यसे सुखम् । न नित्यं लभते दुःखं न नित्यं लभते सुखम् ॥
English Translation
After happiness sorrow has come to you. You will again enjoy happiness for good and no one enjoys happiness for good.
नालं सुखाय सुहृदो नालं दुःखाय शत्रवः । न च प्रज्ञालमर्थानां न सुखानामलं धनम् ॥
English Translation
Friends are not the root of one's happiness. Enemies are not the root of one's misery. Wisdom cannot bring on wealth; wealth cannot give happiness.
न बुद्धिर्धनलाभाय न जाड्यमसमृद्धये । लोकपर्यायवृत्तान्तं प्राज्ञो जानाति नेतरः ॥
English Translation
Intelligence cannot give wealth, nor is stupidity the cause of poverty. Only a wise man, and none else, understands the order of the world.
बुद्धिमन्तं च मूढं च शूरं भीरुं जडं कविम् । दुर्बलं बलवन्तं च भागिनं भजते सुखम् ॥
English Translation
Of the intelligent, the heroic, the foolish, the cowardly, the idiotic, the earned, the weak, or the strong, happiness comes to him only for whom it is ordained.
धेनुर्वत्सस्य गोपस्य स्वामिनस्तस्करस्य च । पयः पिबति यस्तस्या धेनुस्तस्येति निश्चयः ॥
English Translation
The cow belongs to the calf, to the cowherd who is her master, and to the thief. Indeed, she is his who drinks her milk.
ये च मूढतमा लोके ये च बुद्धेः परं गताः । ते नराः सुखमेधन्ते क्लिश्यत्यन्तरितो जनः ॥
English Translation
They whose understandings are dormant, and they who have that state of the mind which lies beyond the range of the intellect, succeed in enjoying happiness. Only they who are between these two classes, suffer misery.
अन्त्येषु रेमिरे धीरा न ते मध्येषु रेमिरे । अन्त्यप्राप्तिं सुखामाहुर्दुःखमन्तरमन्तयोः ॥
English Translation
The wise find pleasure in the two extremes but not in the intermediate states. The sages have said that the attainment of any of these two extremes form happiness. Misery lies in the intermediate states between the two.
ये तु बुद्धिसुखं प्राप्ता द्वंद्वातीता विमत्सराः । तान्नैवार्था न चानर्था व्यथयन्ति कदाचन ॥
English Translation
Those who have succeeded in acquiring real happiness, and who have become freed from the pleasures and pains of this world, and who are shorn of envy, are never moved by either the accession of wealth or its loss.
अथ ये बुद्धिमप्राप्ता व्यतिक्रान्ताश्च मूढताम् । तेऽतिवेलं प्रहृष्यन्ति संतापमुपयान्ति च ॥
English Translation
Those who have not gained that intelligence which brings on real happiness, but who have got over folly and ignorance yield to excessive joy and excessive misery.
नित्यप्रमुदिता मूढा दिवि देवगणा इव । अवलेपेन महता परिदृब्धा विचेतसः ॥
English Translation
Men who have no ideas of right or wrong, who are beside themselves with pride and with success over others, give way to transports of delight like the celestials.
सुखं दुःखान्तमालस्यं दुःखं दाक्ष्यं सुखोदयम् । भूतिश्चैव श्रिया सार्धं दक्षे वसति नालसे ॥
English Translation
Happiness must terminate in misery. Idleness is misery; while cleverness (in action) is the root of felicity. Affluence and prosperity live in a clever man, but not in an idle wight.
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