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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 180

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 180

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 180

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 180 of the classical Mahābhārata with 31 verses.

Total: 31 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.180.1–31 • 250 Lexicon Terms
न प्रणाशोऽस्ति जीवानां दत्तस्य च कृतस्य च । याति देहान्तरं प्राणी शरीरं तु विशीर्यते ॥
English Translation
Bhrigu said The living creature, or what is given, or our other acts, are never destroyed. The death of a creature is only a change of form. The body alone is dissolved.
न शरीराश्रितो जीवस्तस्मिन्नष्टे प्रणश्यति । यथा समित्सु दग्धासु न प्रणश्यति पावकः ॥
English Translation
The living creature, though it depends upon the body, is not destroyed when the body is destroyed. It is not seen after the destroyed. It is not seen after the destruction of the physical body just as fire is not visible after the consumption of the fuel with which it was lighted.
अग्नेर्यथा तथा तस्य यदि नाशो न विद्यते । इन्धनस्योपयोगान्ते स चाग्निर्नोपलभ्यते ॥
English Translation
Bharadwaja said If there is no destruction of the living creature like that of fire, I say, fire itself is not visible after consumption of the fuel (that ignited it).
नश्यतीत्येव जानामि शान्तमग्निमनिन्धनम् । गतिर्यस्य प्रमाणं वा संस्थानं वा न दृश्यते ॥
English Translation
When the supply of a fuel is stopped, the fire is put out, and as far as I know, is destroyed. What has no longer any action should be considered as destroyed, for it proves its non-existence and which no longer occupics any space.
समिधामुपयोगान्ते सन्नेवाग्निर्न दृश्यते । आकाशानुगतत्वाद्धि दुर्ग्रहः स निराश्रयः ॥
English Translation
Bhrigu said, It is true that after the consumption of fuel fire is no longer visible. It mixes with space because there is no longer any visible object wherein it can abide, and hence it cannot be perceived by us.
तथा शरीरसंत्यागे जीवो ह्याकाशवत्स्थितः । न गृह्यते सुसूक्ष्मत्वाद्यथा ज्योतिर्न संशयः ॥
English Translation
Likewise, upon renouncing the body, the creature lives in space, and cannot be seen for its extreme subtility as is the case with fire.
प्राणान्धारयते ह्यग्निः स जीव उपधार्यताम् । वायुसंधारणो ह्यग्निर्नश्यत्युच्छ्वासनिग्रहात् ॥
English Translation
It is fire or heat that kceps us the vital airs called Prana and the others. Know this heat is called life or the living agent. The heat which keeps up vital airs, is extinguished for the suppression of breath.
तस्मिन्नष्टे शरीराग्नौ शरीरं तदचेतनम् । पतितं याति भूमित्वमयनं तस्य हि क्षितिः ॥
English Translation
With the extinction of heat, the body itself loses aniination. Falling down, it it is metamorphosed into earth, its ultimate destination.
जङ्गमानां हि सर्वेषां स्थावराणां तथैव च । आकाशं पवनोऽभ्येति ज्योतिस्तमनुगच्छति । तत्र त्रयाणामेकत्वं द्वयं भूमौ प्रतिष्ठितम् ॥
English Translation
The breath that exists in all mobile and immobile objects mingles with space, and the heat which is in them follows that breath. These three (viz., space, air, and fair), mingle together. The other two (viz., water and earth), exist together in the shape of earth.
यत्र खं तत्र पवनस्तत्राग्निर्यत्र मारुतः । अमूर्तयस्ते विज्ञेया आपो मूर्तास्तथा क्षितिः ॥
English Translation
There is wind where space is, and there is fire where is. They have in reality no forms, and become endued with form only in embodied creatures.
यद्यग्निमारुतौ भूमिः खमापश्च शरीरिषु । जीवः किंलक्षणस्तत्रेत्येतदाचक्ष्व मेऽनघ ॥
English Translation
Bharadwaja said If in the bodies of all living creatures there are heat, wind, earth, space, and water, what then are the sins of the living agent? Tell me these, O sinless one.
पञ्चात्मके पञ्चरतौ पञ्चविज्ञानसंयुते । शरीरे प्राणिनां जीवं ज्ञातुमिच्छामि यादृशम् ॥
English Translation
I wish to know the nature of the life that exists in the bodies of living beings,composed of the five principal elements, engaged in the five principal elements, engaged in the five acts, endued with the five senses and animation.
मांसशोणितसंघाते मेदःस्नाय्वस्थिसंचये । भिद्यमाने शरीरे तु जीवो नैवोपलभ्यते ॥
English Translation
After the dissolution of the body which is a compound of flesh and blood, a mass of fat, sinews and bones, that which is the living agent is not seen.
यद्यजीवं शरीरं तु पञ्चभूतसमन्वितम् । शारीरे मानसे दुःखे कस्तां वेदयते रुजम् ॥
English Translation
If this body, composed of the give elements, has no life, who or what then is that which feels misery on account of either physical or metal pain?
शृणोति कथितं जीवः कर्णाभ्यां न शृणोति तत् । महर्षे मनसि व्यग्रे तस्माज्जीवो निरर्थकः ॥
English Translation
The living agent hears what is said, through the ears. It is, again, the fact, O great Rishi, that the same agent hears not when the mind is elsewhere engaged. It appears, therefore, that what is called the living agent serves no purpose.
सर्वं पश्यति यद्दृश्यं मनोयुक्तेन चक्षुषा । मनसि व्याकुले तद्धि पश्यन्नपि न पश्यति ॥
English Translation
What the living agent sces with eyes acting in unison with the mind, the eye sees not, even when lying before it, if the mind elsewhere engaged.
न पश्यति न च ब्रूते न शृणोति न जिघ्रति । न च स्पर्शरसौ वेत्ति निद्रावशगतः पुनः ॥
English Translation
Then again, when it is asleep, that agent neither sees nor smells, nor hears, nor speaks, nor feels the perceptions of touch and taste.
हृष्यति क्रुध्यति च कः शोचत्युद्विजते च कः । इच्छति ध्यायति द्वेष्टि वाचमीरयते च कः ॥
English Translation
Who or what then is that which feels joy, becomes angry, or sorry and suffers tribulation? What is that which wishes, thinks, feels hatred and utters words.
न पञ्चसाधारणमत्र किंचि;च्छरीरमेको वहतेऽन्तरात्मा । स वेत्ति गन्धांश्च रसाञ्श्रुतिं च; स्पर्शं च रूपं च गुणाश्च येऽन्ये ॥
English Translation
Bhrigu said The mind, like the body also, is made of the five elements. Therefore it is useless regarding the acts mentioned by you. Only the soul sustains the body. It is he that perceives smell, taste, sound, touch, forin and other properties.
पञ्चात्मके पञ्चगुणप्रदर्शी; स सर्वगात्रानुगतोऽन्तरात्मा । स वेत्ति दुःखानि सुखानि चात्र; तद्विप्रयोगात्तु न वेत्ति देहः ॥
English Translation
Permeating all the limbs, that Soul witness the acts of the mind possessing five attributes and living within the body composed of the five elements. It is he who feels pleasure and pain, and when separated from him the body does not feel them.
यदा न रूपं न स्पर्शो नोष्मभावश्च पावके । तदा शान्ते शरीराग्नौ देहं त्यक्त्वा स नश्यति ॥
English Translation
When one has no perception of form or of touch, when there is no heat in the fire of the body,—when the animal heat is gone,-the body, being renounced by the Soul, meets with destruction.
अम्मयं सर्वमेवेदमापो मूर्तिः शरीरिणाम् । तत्रात्मा मानसो ब्रह्मा सर्वभूतेषु लोककृत् ॥
English Translation
The whole universe is made of water. Water is the form of all embodied creatures. In that water lives the Soul which is seen in the mind. That Soul is the Creator Brahman who exists in all things.
आत्मानं तं विजानीहि सर्वलोकहितात्मकम् । तस्मिन्यः संश्रितो देहे ह्यब्बिन्दुरिव पुष्करे ॥
English Translation
Know that Soul. He is full of universal benevolence. He lives in the body like a drop of water in a lotus.
क्षेत्रज्ञं तं विजानीहि नित्यं लोकहितात्मकम् । तमो रजश्च सत्त्वं च विद्धि जीवगुणानिमान् ॥
English Translation
Know well what is called Kshetrajna and which had universal benevolence. Goodness, darkness, and ignorance are the three attributes of the living agent.
सचेतनं जीवगुणं वदन्ति; स चेष्टते चेष्टयते च सर्वम् । ततः परं क्षेत्रविदं वदन्ति; प्रावर्तयद्यो भुवनानि सप्त ॥
English Translation
The learned hold that the Soul had Consciousness and has the attributes of life. The Soul works and makes everything to work. Persons cognisant of the Soul say that the Soul is different from life. It is the Supreme Soul that has created the seven words and makes them works.
न जीवनाशोऽस्ति हि देहभेदे; मिथ्यैतदाहुर्मृत इत्यबुद्धाः । जीवस्तु देहान्तरितः प्रयाति; दशार्धतैवास्य शरीरभेदः ॥
English Translation
There is no destruction of the living agent even when the body is dissolved. Men shorn of intelligence say that it dies. That is in fact false. All that the living agent does is that it goes from one body to another. What is called death is merely the dissolution of the body.
एवं सर्वेषु भूतेषु गूढश्चरति संवृतः । दृश्यते त्वग्र्यया बुद्ध्या सूक्ष्मया तत्त्वदर्शिभिः ॥
English Translation
It is thus that the Soul, covered with various forms, goes form to form, unseen and unnoticed by others. Persons endued with true Knowledge witness the Soul by their keen and subtile intelligence.
तं पूर्वापररात्रेषु युञ्जानः सततं बुधः । लघ्वाहारो विशुद्धात्मा पश्यत्यात्मानमात्मनि ॥
English Translation
Living on restricted diet, and with heart purged of all sins, devoting himself to meditation, a wise man succeeds every night, before sleep and after sleep, in sceing Soul by the help of his Soul.
चित्तस्य हि प्रसादेन हित्वा कर्म शुभाशुभम् । प्रसन्नात्मात्मनि स्थित्वा सुखमक्षयमश्नुते ॥
English Translation
The king, effulgent, like fire living within the mind is called the living agent. It is from that Lord of everything that this creation has originated. This is the conclusion of the enquiry into the origin of creatures and the soul.
मानसोऽग्निः शरीरेषु जीव इत्यभिधीयते । सृष्टिः प्रजापतेरेषा भूताध्यात्मविनिश्चये ॥
English Translation
The king, effulgent, like fire living within the mind is called the living agent. It is from that Lord of everything that this creation has originated. This is the conclusion of the enquiry into the origin of creatures and the soul.
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