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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 191

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 191

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 191

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 191 of the classical Mahābhārata with 12 verses.

Total: 12 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.191.1–12 • 250 Lexicon Terms
कीदृशो जापको याति निरयं वर्णयस्व मे । कौतूहलं हि मे जातं तद्भवान्वक्तुमर्हति ॥
English Translation
Yudhishthira said Tell me what sort of hell is obtained by a Reciter? I am curious, O king, to know this. You should describe this subject to me.'
धर्मस्यांशः प्रसूतोऽसि धर्मिष्ठोऽसि स्वभावतः । धर्ममूलाश्रयं वाक्यं शृणुष्वावहितोऽनघ ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said “You have originated from a portion of the good of righteousness. You are by nature observant of righteousness. Listen, O sinless one, with undivided attention, to these words having righteousness for their root.
अमूनि यानि स्थानानि देवानां परमात्मनाम् । नानासंस्थानवर्णानि नानारूपफलानि च ॥
दिव्यानि कामचारीणि विमानानि सभास्तथा । आक्रीडा विविधा राजन्पद्मिन्यश्चामलोदकाः ॥
चतुर्णां लोकपालानां शुक्रस्याथ बृहस्पतेः । मरुतां विश्वदेवानां साध्यानामश्विनोरपि ॥
रुद्रादित्यवसूनां च तथान्येषां दिवौकसाम् । एते वै निरयास्तात स्थानस्य परमात्मनः ॥
अभयं चानिमित्तं च न च क्लेशभयावृतम् । द्वाभ्यां मुक्तं त्रिभिर्मुक्तमष्टाभिस्त्रिभिरेव च ॥
English Translation
The region last spoken of it shorn of fear, increate, without pain of any sort, without any agreeable or disagreeable element, beyond the reach of the three qualities, freed from the eight things (viz., the five primal elements, the senses, the mind, and the intellect), without the three (distinctions between the knower, the known, and act knowing); freed also from the four attributes (seeing, hearing, thinking, and knowing), without the fourfold causes (of knowledge) without joy and delight ard sorrow and disease.
चतुर्लक्षणवर्जं तु चतुष्कारणवर्जितम् । अप्रहर्षमनानन्दमशोकं विगतक्लमम् ॥
कालः संपच्यते तत्र न कालस्तत्र वै प्रभुः । स कालस्य प्रभू राजन्स्वर्गस्यापि तथेश्वरः ॥
English Translation
Time makes it appearance there for usc. Time is not the ruler there. That supreme region is the ruler of Time as also of Heaven.
आत्मकेवलतां प्राप्तस्तत्र गत्वा न शोचति । ईदृशं परमं स्थानं निरयास्ते च तादृशाः ॥
English Translation
That Reciter who becomes identified with his Soul (by withdrawing everything into it) goes there. He has, after this, never to experience any sorrow. This region is called Supreme. The other regions are hell.
एते ते निरयाः प्रोक्ताः सर्व एव यथातथम् । तस्य स्थानवरस्येह सर्वे निरयसंज्ञिताः ॥
English Translation
I have not told you of all those regions that are called hell. Indeed, as compared with that foremost of regions all the others are called hell.'
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