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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 187

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 187

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 187

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 187 of the classical Mahābhārata with 61 verses.

Total: 61 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.187.1–61 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 3 (Verses 30 shown)
अध्यात्मं नाम यदिदं पुरुषस्येह चिन्त्यते । यदध्यात्मं यतश्चैतत्तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह ॥
English Translation
Yudhishthira said Tell me, O grandfather, what and of what nature is that which passes by the name of Adhyatma (spiritual) and which is laid down for ever person.
अध्यात्ममिति मां पार्थ यदेतदनुपृच्छसि । तद्व्याख्यास्यामि ते तात श्रेयस्करतरं सुखम् ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said This Adhyatma, O son of Pritha, that you ask me about, I will presently describe. It is, O son, highly agreeable and productive of great happiness.
यज्ज्ञात्वा पुरुषो लोके प्रीतिं सौख्यं च विन्दति । फललाभश्च सद्यः स्यात्सर्वभूतहितं च तत् ॥
English Translation
Great teachers have (before this) described the Creation and the Destruction of the universe). Knowing those truths, a person may acquire, even in this world, great satisfaction and happiness. Such knowledge also bring on the acquisition of great fruits, and it is highly beneficial to all creatures.
पृथिवी वायुराकाशमापो ज्योतिश्च पञ्चमम् । महाभूतानि भूतानां सर्वेषां प्रभवाप्ययौ ॥
English Translation
Earth, Wind, Ether, Water, and Light forming the fifth, are the great elements. These are the origin and the destruction of all creatures.
ततः सृष्टानि तत्रैव तानि यान्ति पुनः पुनः । महाभूतानि भूतेषु सागरस्योर्मयो यथा ॥
English Translation
To Him from whom these great primal elements spring, they return again and again severing themselves from all creatures like the wave of the ocean.
प्रसार्य च यथाङ्गानि कूर्मः संहरते पुनः । तद्वद्भूतानि भूतात्मा सृष्ट्वा संहरते पुनः ॥
English Translation
As the tortoise extends its limbs and withdraws them again, so the Supreme Soul creates all objects and again withdraws them into Himself.
महाभूतानि पञ्चैव सर्वभूतेषु भूतकृत् । अकरोत्तेषु वैषम्यं तत्तु जीवोऽनु पश्यति ॥
English Translation
The Creator places the five primary clements in all created objects in different proportions. The living creature, however, does not mark it.
शब्दः श्रोत्रं तथा खानि त्रयमाकाशयोनिजम् । वायोस्त्वक्स्पर्शचेष्टाश्च वागित्येतच्चतुष्टयम् ॥
English Translation
Sound, the organ of hearing, and all holes,-these three, originate from Space Touch, action, and skin are the three-fold attributes of the Wind.
रूपं चक्षुस्तथा पक्तिस्त्रिविधं तेज उच्यते । रसः क्लेदश्च जिह्वा च त्रयो जलगुणाः स्मृताः ॥
English Translation
Form, cye, and digestion are the three-fold attributes of Fire or Energy. Taste all liquid secretions, and the tongue are the three attributes of Water.
घ्रेयं घ्राणं शरीरं च ते तु भूमिगुणास्त्रयः । महाभूतानि पञ्चैव षष्ठं तु मन उच्यते ॥
English Translation
Smell, the nose, and the body are the three properties, of Earth. The great elements are five. The mind is the sixth.
इन्द्रियाणि मनश्चैव विज्ञानान्यस्य भारत । सप्तमी बुद्धिरित्याहुः क्षेत्रज्ञः पुनरष्टमः ॥
English Translation
The senses and the mind, O Bharata are the organs through which the cognition of a living creature is made. The seventh is the understanding; and the eight is the soul.
चक्षुरालोकनायैव संशयं कुरुते मनः । बुद्धिरध्यवसायाय क्षेत्रज्ञः साक्षिवत्स्थितः ॥
English Translation
The senses are for perceiving; the mind creates uncertainty. The understanding brings all knowledge to certainty. The Soul exists as a witness.
ऊर्ध्वं पादतलाभ्यां यदर्वागूर्ध्वं च पश्यति । एतेन सर्वमेवेदं विद्ध्यभिव्याप्तमन्तरम् ॥
English Translation
All that is above the two feet, all that is behind, and all that is above, are witnessed by the Soul. Know that the Soul permeates the entire being without left vacant.
पुरुषे चेन्द्रियाणीह वेदितव्यानि कृत्स्नशः । तमो रजश्च सत्त्वं च विद्धि भावांस्तदाश्रयान् ॥
English Translation
All men should know fully the senses, the mind and the understanding. The three universal tendencies qualities called Goodness, Darkness and Ignorance, exist, dependent on the senses, the mind, and the understanding.
एतां बुद्ध्वा नरो बुद्ध्या भूतानामागतिं गतिम् । समवेक्ष्य शनैश्चैव लभते शममुत्तमम् ॥
English Translation
Man, by understanding with the help of his intelligence, the manner in which creatures come and leave the world, is sure to attain by and by to steadfast peace.
गुणान्नेनीयते बुद्धिर्बुद्धिरेवेन्द्रियाण्यपि । मनःषष्ठानि सर्वाणि बुद्ध्यभावे कुतो गुणाः ॥
English Translation
or The three qualities lead the understanding to worldly attachments. In this matter, the Understanding is identical with the Senses and the Mind. The Understanding, therefore, is identical with the six (the five senses and the mind), and also with the objects cognised by it. When, however, the Understanding is destroyed, the three qualities cannot produce action.
इति तन्मयमेवैतत्सर्वं स्थावरजङ्गमम् । प्रलीयते चोद्भवति तस्मान्निर्दिश्यते तथा ॥
English Translation
This universe of mobile and iinmobile objects consists of that Intelligence. It is from that Intelligence that everything originales and it is into it that everything originates and it is into it that everything subsides. The scriptures point out, therefore, that everything is a manifestation of Intelligence.
येन पश्यति तच्चक्षुः शृणोति श्रोत्रमुच्यते । जिघ्रति घ्राणमित्याहू रसं जानाति जिह्वया ॥
English Translation
That by which one sees, that is eye hears is the car. That by which one smells is called the organ of smell, and that by which one distinguishes the tastes is called the tongue.
त्वचा स्पृशति च स्पर्शान्बुद्धिर्विक्रियतेऽसकृत् । येन संकल्पयत्यर्थं किंचिद्भवति तन्मनः ॥
English Translation
One acquires perception of touch by the skin that covers the body. That which is called the Intelligence undergoes changes. When the Intelligence desires anything it is called Mind.
अधिष्ठानानि बुद्धेर्हि पृथगर्थानि पञ्चधा । पञ्चेन्द्रियाणि यान्याहुस्तान्यदृश्योऽधितिष्ठति ॥
English Translation
The foundations of the Intelligence are five in number, cach serving a different purpose. They are called the sense. The invisible principle. viz., Intelligence, Depends on them.
पुरुषाधिष्ठिता बुद्धिस्त्रिषु भावेषु वर्तते । कदाचिल्लभते प्रीतिं कदाचिदनुशोचति ॥
English Translation
The Intelligence that exists in a living creature embraces the three qualities. Sometimes it obtains happiness and sometimes misery.
न सुखेन न दुःखेन कदाचिदपि वर्तते । एवं नराणां मनसि त्रिषु भावेष्ववस्थिता ॥
English Translation
Sometimes it becomes shorn of both joy and misery. Thus Intelligence exists on the minds of all men.
सेयं भावात्मिका भावांस्त्रीनेतान्नातिवर्तते । सरितां सागरो भर्ता महावेलामिवोर्मिमान् ॥
English Translation
The Understanding, however, whose chief function is to create elements, transcends those three states as the ocean, the king of rivers, stands against the powerful currents of the rivers that fall into it.
अतिभावगता बुद्धिर्भावे मनसि वर्तते । प्रवर्तमानं हि रजस्तद्भावमनुवर्तते ॥
English Translation
That Intelligence which transcends the three qualities exists in the mind in a purc state, of (unmodified) existence alone. The quality of Darkness, however, that leads to action, soon pursues it.
इन्द्रियाणि हि सर्वाणि प्रदर्शयति सा सदा । प्रीतिः सत्त्वं रजः शोकस्तमो मोहश्च ते त्रयः ॥
English Translation
At that time the Intelligence sets and the senses to action. The properties of the three are these : happiness dwell in Goodness; sorrow in Darkness; delusion in Ignorance.
ये ये च भावा लोकेऽस्मिन्सर्वेष्वेतेषु ते त्रिषु । इति बुद्धिगतिः सर्वा व्याख्याता तव भारत ॥
English Translation
All the states of the mind are included in the three qualities. I have now, O Bharata, described to you the course of the understanding.
इन्द्रियाणि च सर्वाणि विजेतव्यानि धीमता । सत्त्वं रजस्तमश्चैव प्राणिनां संश्रिताः सदा ॥
English Translation
An intelligent man should control all his senses. The three qualities of Goodness, Darkness and Ignorance are always attached to living creatures.
त्रिविधा वेदना चैव सर्वसत्त्वेषु दृश्यते । सात्त्विकी राजसी चैव तामसी चेति भारत ॥
English Translation
Three kinds of intelligence also are seen in every creature, viz., that which depends upon Goodness, that upon darkness, and that upon Ignorance, O Bharata.
सुखस्पर्शः सत्त्वगुणो दुःखस्पर्शो रजोगुणः । तमोगुणेन संयुक्तौ भवतोऽव्यावहारिकौ ॥
English Translation
The quality of goodness brings happiness; the quality of Darkness produces sorrow; and if these two combine with the quality of Ignorance then neither happiness nor sorrow is produced.
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