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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 241

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 241

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 241

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 241 of the classical Mahābhārata with 15 verses.

Total: 15 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.241.1–15 • 250 Lexicon Terms
सृजते तु गुणान्सत्त्वं क्षेत्रज्ञस्त्वनुतिष्ठति । गुणान्विक्रियतः सर्वानुदासीनवदीश्वरः ॥
English Translation
The objects by which one is encircled are created by the Understanding. Without being connected with them, the Soul stands aloof, lording over them. The Understanding creates all objects. The three principal qualities are continually being transformed. The Soul, gifled with power, lords over them all, without, however, mingling with them.
स्वभावयुक्तं तत्सर्वं यदिमान्सृजते गुणान् । ऊर्णनाभिर्यथा सूत्रं सृजते तन्तुवद्गुणान् ॥
English Translation
The objects created by the Understanding partake of its own nature. Like the threads created by the spider, the objects created by the Understanding partake of the nature of Understanding.
प्रध्वस्ता न निवर्तन्ते प्रवृत्तिर्नोपलभ्यते । एवमेके व्यवस्यन्ति निवृत्तिरिति चापरे ॥
English Translation
When destroyed, the qualities do not cease to exist; only, their existence becomes invisible. When, however, a thing is beyond the range of the senses, its existence (or otherwise) is understood by inference. This is the opinion of some persons. Others hold that with destruction the qualities cease to be. are
उभयं संप्रधार्यैतदध्यवस्येद्यथामति । अनेनैव विधानेन भवेद्गर्भशयो महान् ॥
English Translation
Meditating duly upon these two opinions, one should try his best according to the way one thinks proper. It is by this way that one should acquire eminence and take refuge in his own Soul alone.
अनादिनिधनं नित्यमासाद्य विचरेन्नरः । अक्रुध्यन्नप्रहृष्यंश्च नित्यं विगतमत्सरः ॥
English Translation
The Soul is without beginning and without end. Understanding his Soul properly man should move and act, without yielding to anger, without indulging in joy, and always shorn of envy.
इत्येवं हृदयग्रन्थिं बुद्धिचिन्तामयं दृढम् । अतीत्य सुखमासीत अशोचंश्छिन्नसंशयः ॥
English Translation
Cutting by this means the knot that is in his heart, created by the faculties of the Understanding, which is hard (to cut), but which can be destroyed by knowledge, one should live happily, without yielding to grief, and with his doubts removed.
तप्येयुः प्रच्युताः पृथ्व्या यथा पूर्णां नदीं नराः । अवगाढा ह्यविद्वांसो विद्धि लोकमिमं तथा ॥
English Translation
Know that they who mix in worldly affairs, are as distressed in body and mind as persons ignorant of the art of swimming when they fall from the land into a vast and deep river.
न तु ताम्यति वै विद्वान्स्थले चरति तत्त्ववित् । एवं यो विन्दतेऽऽत्मानं केवलं ज्ञानमात्मनः ॥
English Translation
Being conversant with the truth, the learned man, however, is never distressed, for he feels like one walking over firm land. Indeed, he who perceives his Soul to be such, viz., as full of consciousness which has knowledge alone for its mark, is never distressed.
एवं बुद्ध्वा नरः सर्वां भूतानामागतिं गतिम् । समवेक्ष्य शनैः सम्यग्लभते शममुत्तमम् ॥
English Translation
By thus knowing the origin and end of all creatures, and by thus apprehending their distinctions, a person succeeds in acquiring high felicity.
एतद्वै जन्मसामर्थ्यं ब्राह्मणस्य विशेषतः । आत्मज्ञानं शमश्चैव पर्याप्तं तत्परायणम् ॥
English Translation
This knowledge is the possession of a Brahmana in particular by virtue of his birth. Knowledge of the Soul, and happiness like above, are each fully sufficient to lead to Liberation.
एतद्बुद्ध्वा भवेद्बुद्धः किमन्यद्बुद्धलक्षणम् । विज्ञायैतद्विमुच्यन्ते कृतकृत्या मनीषिणः ॥
English Translation
By gaining such knowledge one really becomes learned. What else is the mark of a person of knowledge? Having gained such knowledge, the wise men consider themselves successful and become liberated. Those things which produce fear to men shorn of knowledge do not do so to those who are gifted with knowledge. There is no end higher than the eternal end which is acquired by a learned person.
न भवति विदुषां महद्भयं; यदविदुषां सुमहद्भयं भवेत् । न हि गतिरधिकास्ति कस्यचि;द्भवति हि या विदुषः सनातनी ॥
English Translation
By gaining such knowledge one really becomes learned. What else is the mark of a person of knowledge? Having gained such knowledge, the wise men consider themselves successful and become liberated. Those things which produce fear to men shorn of knowledge do not do so to those who are gifted with knowledge. There is no end higher than the eternal end which is acquired by a learned person.
लोकमातुरमसूयते जन;स्तत्तदेव च निरीक्ष्य शोचते । तत्र पश्य कुशलानशोचतो; ये विदुस्तदुभयं कृताकृतम् ॥
English Translation
One sees with aversion all earthly objects of enjoyment which are, of course, full of shortcomings. Again seeing others pursue such objects with pleasure, another is filled with sorrow. But they who are conversant with both objects, viz., that which is fictitious and that which is not so, are never grieved and are truly happy.
यत्करोत्यनभिसंधिपूर्वकं; तच्च निर्णुदति यत्पुरा कृतम् । न प्रियं तदुभयं न चाप्रियं; तस्य तज्जनयतीह कुर्वतः ॥
English Translation
What a man does without expectation of fruits dissipates his acts of a pristine life. The acts, however, of such a person both of this end and his pristine life cannot lead to Liberation. On the other hand, such destruction of former acts and such acts of this life cannot bring what is disagreeable (viz., hell), even if the wise man engages in acts.
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