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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 2 of 2 (Verses 24 shown)
सुखं वा यदि वा दुःखं द्वेष्यं वा यदि वा प्रियम् । प्राप्तं प्राप्तमुपासीत हृदयेनापराजितः ॥
English Translation
Be it happiness or be it misery, be it pleasant or be it otherwise, what comes to one should be enjoyed or put up with an unconquered heart.
शोकस्थानसहस्राणि हर्षस्थानशतानि च । दिवसे दिवसे मूढमाविशन्ति न पण्डितम् ॥
English Translation
Every day a thousand occasions for sorrow, and a hundred occasions for fear attack an ignorant and foolish man but a wise man is never so affected.
बुद्धिमन्तं कृतप्रज्ञं शुश्रूषुमनसूयकम् । दान्तं जितेन्द्रियं चापि शोको न स्पृशते नरम् ॥
English Translation
Sorrow can never touch an intelligent man, one who has acquired wisdom, one who obeys the instructions of his elders, one who has no envy, and one who has controlled his self.
एतां बुद्धिं समास्थाय गुप्तचित्तश्चरेद्बुधः । उदयास्तमयज्ञं हि न शोकः स्प्रष्टुमर्हति ॥
English Translation
Depending upon such an understanding, and guarding his heart (against the influences of desire and the passions), the wise man should work on in this world. Indeed, sorrow cannot affect him who knows that Supreme Self from which everything emanate and to which everything disappears.
यन्निमित्तं भवेच्छोकस्त्रासो वा दुःखमेव वा । आयासो वा यतोमूलस्तदेकाङ्गमपि त्यजेत् ॥
English Translation
The very root of grief, or heart-burning, or sorrow or of action, should, even if it be a part of one's body, the cast off.
यद्यत्त्यजति कामानां तत्सुखस्याभिपूर्यते । कामानुसारी पुरुषः कामाननु विनश्यति ॥
English Translation
If objects, of desire, are renounced they become sources of happiness. The man who follows objects of desire is ruined in that pursuit.
यच्च कामसुखं लोके यच्च दिव्यं महत्सुखम् । तृष्णाक्षयसुखस्यैते नार्हतः षोडशीं कलाम् ॥
English Translation
Neither the happiness which is derived from a gratification of the senses nor that great happiness which one may enjoy in heaven, even comes up to a sixteenth part of the happiness which originates from the destruction of all desire.
पूर्वदेहकृतं कर्म शुभं वा यदि वाशुभम् । प्राज्ञं मूढं तथा शूरं भजते यादृशं कृतम् ॥
English Translation
The consequences of pristine decds, right or wrong, affect the wise and the foolish, the brave and the mind.
एवमेव किलैतानि प्रियाण्येवाप्रियाणि च । जीवेषु परिवर्तन्ते दुःखानि च सुखानि च ॥
English Translation
Thus joy and sorrow, the agreeable and the disagreeable, continually revolve among living creatures.
तदेवं बुद्धिमास्थाय सुखं जीवेद्गुणान्वितः । सर्वान्कामाञ्जुगुप्सेत सङ्गान्कुर्वीत पृष्ठतः । वृत्त एष हृदि प्रौढो मृत्युरेष मनोमयः ॥
English Translation
Thus knowing an intelligent and wise man lives at ease. A person should renounce all his desires, and never give way to anger.
यदा संहरते कामान्कूर्मोऽङ्गानीव सर्वशः । तदात्मज्योतिरात्मा च आत्मन्येव प्रसीदति ॥
English Translation
When a person withdraws all his desires like a tortoise withdrawing all its limbs, then its soul, which is self-luminous, can see itself.
किंचिदेव ममत्वेन यदा भवति कल्पितम् । तदेव परितापार्थं सर्वं संपद्यते तदा ॥
English Translation
That object, whatever it may be, which one considers as his own, is a source of grief and heart-burning.
न बिभेति यदा चायं यदा चास्मान्न बिभ्यति । यदा नेच्छति न द्वेष्टि ब्रह्म संपद्यते तदा ॥
English Translation
When a person himself feels no fear and is feared by no one, when he has no desire and no hatred, he is then said to attain to the state of Brahima.
उभे सत्यानृते त्यक्त्वा शोकानन्दौ भयाभये । प्रियाप्रिये परित्यज्य प्रशान्तात्मा भविष्यसि ॥
English Translation
Renouncing both truth and falsehood, grief and joy, fear and courage, the agreeable and the disagreeable, you may acquire equanimity of soul.
यदा न कुरुते धीरः सर्वभूतेषु पापकम् । कर्मणा मनसा वाचा ब्रह्म संपद्यते तदा ॥
English Translation
When a person does no wrong to any creature, in thought, word, or deed, he is then said to attain to a state of Brahma.
या दुस्त्यजा दुर्मतिभिर्या न जीर्यति जीर्यतः । योऽसौ प्राणान्तिको रोगस्तां तृष्णां त्यजतः सुखम् ॥
English Translation
He alone enjoys true happiness who can renounce that thirst which cannot be cast off by the misguided, which does not decay with decrepitude, and which is considered as a fatal disease.
अत्र पिङ्गलया गीता गाथाः श्रूयन्ति पार्थिव । यथा सा कृच्छ्रकालेऽपि लेभे धर्मं सनातनम् ॥
English Translation
About it, O king, are heard the verses sung by Pingala regarding the way in which she had acquired eternal inerit even at a very unfavourable time.
संकेते पिङ्गला वेश्या कान्तेनासीद्विनाकृता । अथ कृच्छ्रगता शान्तां बुद्धिमास्थापयत्तदा ॥
English Translation
Having gone to the appointed place, a fallen woman of the name of Pingala could not enjoy the company of her lover through an accident. At that time of great misery, she acquired equanimity of soul.
उन्मत्ताहमनुन्मत्तं कान्तमन्ववसं चिरम् । अन्तिके रमणं सन्तं नैनमध्यगमं पुरा ॥
English Translation
Pingala said Alas, I have for many years lived ignorantly, by the side of tha dear Self in whom there is nothing but tranquility. Death has been at my door. Ere this, I did not, however, approach that Essence of Purity.
एकस्थूणं नवद्वारमपिधास्याम्यगारकम् । का हि कान्तमिहायान्तमयं कान्तेति मंस्यते ॥
English Translation
I shall cover this house of one column and nine doors, i.e., body, (by means of true knowledge). What woman is there who considers that dear. Supreme Soul, even when He is so near, as really dear.
अकामाः कामरूपेण धूर्ता नरकरूपिणः । न पुनर्वञ्चयिष्यन्ति प्रतिबुद्धास्मि जागृमि ॥
English Translation
I am now awake. I have been roused from the sleep of ignorance. I am no longer under the influence of desire. Human lovers, who are, in fact, so many embodiments of hell, shall no longer impose upon me by approaching me lustfully.
अनर्थोऽपि भवत्यर्थो दैवात्पूर्वकृतेन वा । संबुद्धाहं निराकारा नाहमद्याजितेन्द्रिया ॥
English Translation
Evil yields good through destiny or through pristine deeds. Roused from the sleep of ignorance, I have renounced all desire for worldly objects. I have gained a complete mastery over my senses.
सुखं निराशः स्वपिति नैराश्यं परमं सुखम् । आशामनाशां कृत्वा हि सुखं स्वपिति पिङ्गला ॥
English Translation
One freed from desire and hope sleeps happily. Freedom from hope and desire is happiness. Having renounced desire and hope, Pingala sleeps happily.
एतैश्चान्यैश्च विप्रस्य हेतुमद्भिः प्रभाषितैः । पर्यवस्थापितो राजा सेनजिन्मुमुदे सुखम् ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said Consoled with these and other words of the learned Brahmana, king Senajit enjoyed delight and became very happy.
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