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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 219

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 219

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 219

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 219 of the classical Mahābhārata with 24 verses.

Total: 24 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.219.1–24 • 250 Lexicon Terms
अत्रैवोदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम् । शतक्रतोश्च संवादं नमुचेश्च युधिष्ठिर ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said Regarding it, О Yudhisthira, is cited the old discourse between Prahlada and Indra.
श्रिया विहीनमासीनमक्षोभ्यमिव सागरम् । भवाभवज्ञं भूतानामित्युवाच पुरंदरः ॥
English Translation
When the Asura Namuchi, who knew well the birth and the death of all creatures was sitting, shorn of prosperity but undisturbed at heart like the huge ocean in perfect stillness, Purandara addressed him these words-..
बद्धः पाशैश्च्युतः स्थानाद्द्विषतां वशमागतः । श्रिया विहीनो नमुचे शोचस्याहो न शोचसि ॥
English Translation
You are now bound in fetters, fallen off from your former position, brought under the sway of your foes, and divested of prosperity. Your present circumstances are such as may well give room to grief. Yet how is it, O Prahlada, that you do not grieve.
अनवाप्यं च शोकेन शरीरं चोपतप्यते । अमित्राश्च प्रहृष्यन्ति नास्ति शोके सहायता ॥
English Translation
‘By indulging in such sorrow as cannot be avoided one only wastes his body any cheering his enemies. Then, again, no one can lighten another's sorrow by putting any portion of it upon oneself. For these reasons, O Shakra, I do not grieve. All this that you see has one end.
तस्माच्छक्र न शोचामि सर्वं ह्येवेदमन्तवत् । संतापाद्भ्रश्यते रूपं धर्मश्चैव सुरेश्वर ॥
English Translation
Indulgence in sorrow mars personal beauty, prosperity, life, and virtue itself, O king of the gods.
विनीय खलु तद्दुःखमागतं वैमनस्यजम् । ध्यातव्यं मनसा हृद्यं कल्याणं संविजानता ॥
English Translation
Forsooth, suppressing that sorrow which comes upon oneself and which is begotten by a weak mind, one endued with true knowledge should reflect in his mind of that which yields the highest good not which lives in the heart itself.
यथा यथा हि पुरुषः कल्याणे कुरुते मनः । तदैवास्य प्रसीदन्ति सर्वार्था नात्र संशयः ॥
English Translation
When one sets his mind upon what is for one's highest good, forsooth, the result that all his objects are accomplished.
एकः शास्ता न द्वितीयोऽस्ति शास्ता; गर्भे शयानं पुरुषं शास्ति शास्ता । तेनानुशिष्टः प्रवणादिवोदकं; यथा नियुक्तोऽस्मि तथा वहामि ॥
English Translation
There is One Ordainer, and no second. His sway extends the embryo. Controlled by the great Ordainer I go on as He moves me on, like water running along a downward path.
भावाभावावभिजानन्गरीयो; जानामि श्रेयो न तु तत्करोमि । आशाः सुशर्म्याः सुहृदां सुकुर्व;न्यथा नियुक्तोऽस्मि तथा वहामि ॥
English Translation
Knowing what is existence and what liberation, and understanding also that the latter is superior to the former, I do not, however, try to attain to it. Doing virtuous and sinful acts I go on as He moves me on.
यथा यथास्य प्राप्तव्यं प्राप्नोत्येव तथा तथा । भवितव्यं यथा यच्च भवत्येव तथा तथा ॥
English Translation
One gets those things that are ordained to be got. That which is to happen actually takes place.
यत्र यत्रैव संयुङ्क्ते धाता गर्भं पुनः पुनः । तत्र तत्रैव वसति न यत्र स्वयमिच्छति ॥
English Translation
Over even One has repeatedly to live in such wombs in which one is placed by the Ordainer. He has no choice in the matter.
भावो योऽयमनुप्राप्तो भवितव्यमिदं मम । इति यस्य सदा भावो न स मुह्येत्कदाचन ॥
English Translation
That person never feels himself stupefied, who when placed in any particular condition, accepts it as that which he was ordained to be placed in.
पर्यायैर्हन्यमानानामभियोक्ता न विद्यते । दुःखमेतत्तु यद्द्वेष्टा कर्ताहमिति मन्यते ॥
English Translation
Men are affected by pleasure and pain that come by turns in Time. There is no personal agency in this matter. In this lies sorrow.
ऋषींश्च देवांश्च महासुरांश्च; त्रैविद्यवृद्धांश्च वने मुनींश्च । कान्नापदो नोपनमन्ति लोके; परावरज्ञास्तु न संभ्रमन्ति ॥
English Translation
Who is there amongst Rishis, gods, great Asuras, persons fully conversant with the three Vedas, and hermits living in the forest, whom calamities do not approach? Those, however, who know well, the Soul and not-Soul never fear calamities.
न पण्डितः क्रुध्यति नापि सज्जते; न चापि संसीदति न प्रहृष्यति । न चार्थकृच्छ्रव्यसनेषु शोचति; स्थितः प्रकृत्या हिमवानिवाचलः ॥
English Translation
The wise person, naturally standing immovable like Himavat, never yields to anger; never allows himself to be addicted to the objects of the senses; never suffers pain in sorrow or rejoices in happiness. When overwhelmed with even great afflictions, such a person never grieves.
यमर्थसिद्धिः परमा न हर्षये;त्तथैव काले व्यसनं न मोहयेत् । सुखं च दुःखं च तथैव मध्यमं; निषेवते यः स धुरंधरो नरः ॥
English Translation
That person is, indeed, a great man whom even great success cannot gladden and even great calamities cannot stupefy, and who bears pleasure and pain, and that which is between them both, with an unaffected mind.
यां यामवस्थां पुरुषोऽधिगच्छे;त्तस्यां रमेतापरितप्यमानः । एवं प्रवृद्धं प्रणुदेन्मनोजं; संतापमायासकरं शरीरात् ॥
English Translation
A person should always be cheerful and not sorry into whatever condition he may fall, thus should a person remove his increasing sorrow which is born in his mind and that is (if not removed) sure to give pain.
तत्सदः स परिषत्सभासदः; प्राप्य यो न कुरुते सभाभयम् । धर्मतत्त्वमवगाह्य बुद्धिमा;न्योऽभ्युपैति स पुमान्धुरंधरः ॥
English Translation
That concourse of learned men engaged in the discussion of the ethics of both the Shrutis and the Smritis is not a good assembly,-indeed, that does not deserve to be called so,-entering which a wicked man is not stricken with fear. That men is the foremost of his sex, who having made a proper enquiry after righteousness acts according to the conclusions to which he arrives.
प्राज्ञस्य कर्माणि दुरन्वयानि; न वै प्राज्ञो मुह्यति मोहकाले । स्थानाच्च्युतश्चेन्न मुमोह गौतम;स्तावत्कृच्छ्रामापदं प्राप्य वृद्धः ॥
English Translation
The acts of a wise man are not easily understood. A wise man is never stupefied when afflictions overtake him. Even if he falls away from his position like Gautama in his old age, on account of the direst calamity, he does not allow himself to be stupefied.
न मन्त्रबलवीर्येण प्रज्ञया पौरुषेण वा । अलभ्यं लभते मर्त्यस्तत्र का परिदेवना ॥
English Translation
Can a person by Mantras, strength, energy, wisdom, prowess, behaviour, conduct, or wealth, acquire that which has not been ordained to be acquired by him? What sorrow then is there if a person cannot acquire that which he seeks at heart.
यदेवमनुजातस्य धातारो विदधुः पुरा । तदेवानुभविष्यामि किं मे मृत्युः करिष्यति ॥
English Translation
Before I was born, the ordainers had ordained that I am to do and suffer. I am fulfilling what was thus ordained for me. What then can death do to me.
लब्धव्यान्येव लभते गन्तव्यान्येव गच्छति । प्राप्तव्यान्येव प्राप्नोति दुःखानि च सुखानि च ॥
English Translation
One gets only what has been ordained. One goes whence he was ordained to go. Those sorrows and joys only are obtained that are ordained so.
एतद्विदित्वा कार्त्स्न्येन यो न मुह्यति मानवः । कुशलः सुखदुःखेषु स वै सर्वधनेश्वरः ॥
English Translation
That man who, knowing this well, does not allow himself to be stupefied, and who is contented with both happiness and misery, is considered as the foremost of his sex.
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