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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 275

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 275

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 275

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 275 of the classical Mahābhārata with 22 verses.

Total: 22 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.275.1–22 • 250 Lexicon Terms
शोकाद्दुःखाच्च मृत्योश्च त्रस्यन्ति प्राणिनः सदा । उभयं मे यथा न स्यात्तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह ॥
English Translation
Yudhishthira said Living creatures always dread sorrow and death. Tell me, O grandfather, how the occurrence of these two may be warded off.
अत्रैवोदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम् । नारदस्य च संवादं समङ्गस्य च भारत ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said Regarding it, O Bharata, is cited the old discourse between Narada and Samanga.
उरसेव प्रणमसे बाहुभ्यां तरसीव च । संप्रहृष्टमना नित्यं विशोक इव लक्ष्यसे ॥
English Translation
Narada said You salute your elders by prostrating yourself on the ground till your chest touches the ground. You appear to be engaged in crossing (the river of life) with your hands. You appear to be always free from sorrow and greatly cheerful.
उद्वेगं नेह ते किंचित्सुसूक्ष्ममपि लक्षये । नित्यतृप्त इव स्वस्थो बालवच्च विचेष्टसे ॥
English Translation
I do not see that have the least anxiety. You are always content and happy, and you appear to play happily like a child.
भूतं भव्यं भविष्यच्च सर्वं सत्त्वेषु मानद । तेषां तत्त्वानि जानामि ततो न विमना ह्यहम् ॥
English Translation
Samanga said O giver of honours, I know the truth about the Past, the Present, and the Future. Hence I never become dispirited.
उपक्रमानहं वेद पुनरेव फलोदयान् । लोके फलानि चित्राणि ततो न विमना ह्यहम् ॥
English Translation
I know also what the commencement of acts is in this world, what, of their fruits and how different are those fruits. Hence I never give way to sorrow.
अगाधाश्चाप्रतिष्ठाश्च गतिमन्तश्च नारद । अन्धा जडाश्च जीवन्ति पश्यास्मानपि जीवतः ॥
English Translation
You see, O Narada, the illiterate, the destitute, the prosperous, the blind, idiots and madmen, and ourselves also, all live.
विहितेनैव जीवन्ति अरोगाङ्गा दिवौकसः । बलवन्तोऽबलाश्चैव तद्वदस्मान्सभाजय ॥
English Translation
These live by virtue of their pristine deeds. The very gods, who are freed from diseases, exist by virtue of their pristine deeds. The strong and the weak, all, live by virtue of their pristine deeds. It is proper, therefore, you should regard us with respect.
सहस्रिणश्च जीवन्ति जीवन्ति शतिनस्तथा । शाकेन चान्ये जीवन्ति पश्यास्मानपि जीवतः ॥
English Translation
The masters of thousands live. The master of hundreds also live. They who overwhelmed with sorrow live. See, we too are living.
यदा न शोचेमहि किं नु न स्या;द्धर्मेण वा नारद कर्मणा वा । कृतान्तवश्यानि यदा सुखानि; दुःखानि वा यन्न विधर्षयन्ति ॥
English Translation
When we, O Narada. do not yield to grief, what can the practice of the duties or the observance of acts do to us? And since all joys and sorrows do not terminate, they are, therefore, unable to agitate us at all. are
यस्मै प्रज्ञां कथयन्ते मनुष्याः; प्रज्ञामूलो हीन्द्रियाणां प्रसादः । मुह्यन्ति शोचन्ति यदेन्द्रियाणि; प्रज्ञालाभो नास्ति मूढेन्द्रियस्य ॥
English Translation
Indeed, the very root of wisdom, is the freedom of the senses from mistake. It is the senses which produce error and grief. One whose senses are subject to mistake can never be said to have acquired wisdom.
मूढस्य दर्पः स पुनर्मोह एव; मूढस्य नायं न परोऽस्ति लोकः । न ह्येव दुःखानि सदा भवन्ति; सुखस्य वा नित्यशो लाभ एव ॥
English Translation
That pride which a man, subject to error, entertains, is only a form of the error to which he is subject. As regards the man of error, neither this world nor the next is for him. It should be remembered that griefs do not last for ever and that happiness cannot be acquired always.
भावात्मकं संपरिवर्तमानं; न मादृशः संज्वरं जातु कुर्यात् । इष्टान्भोगान्नानुरुध्येत्सुखं वा; न चिन्तयेद्दुःखमभ्यागतं वा ॥
English Translation
One like me would never adopt worldly life with all its changes and painful incidents. Such a one would not care for objects of enjoyments, and would not think at all of the happiness which they yield, or, indeed, of the griefs that come on.
समाहितो न स्पृहयेत्परेषां; नानागतं नाभिनन्देत लाभम् । न चापि हृष्येद्विपुलेऽर्थलाभे; तथार्थनाशे च न वै विषीदेत् ॥
English Translation
One capable of depending on his own self, would never hanker after the possessions of others; would not think of unfair gains, would not feel overjoyed at the acquisition of even immense riches; and would not give way to sorrow at the loss of riches.
न बान्धवा न च वित्तं न कौली; न च श्रुतं न च मन्त्रा न वीर्यम् । दुःखात्त्रातुं सर्व एवोत्सहन्ते; परत्र शीले न तु यान्ति शान्तिम् ॥
English Translation
Neither friends, nor riches, nor high birth, nor sacred learning, nor Mantras, nor energy, can succeed in saying one from sorrow in the next world. It is only by conduct that one can acquire happiness there.
नास्ति बुद्धिरयुक्तस्य नायोगाद्विद्यते सुखम् । धृतिश्च दुःखत्यागश्चाप्युभयं नः सुखोदयम् ॥
English Translation
The understanding of the man who is not acquainted with Yoga can never be directed towards Liberation. One unacquainted with Yoga can never gain happiness. Patience and the determination to shake off sorrow, these two mark the setting in of happiness.
प्रियं हि हर्षजननं हर्ष उत्सेकवर्धनः । उत्सेको नरकायैव तस्मात्तं संत्यजाम्यहम् ॥
English Translation
Anything agreeable brings on pleasure. Pleasure induced pride. Pride, again, produces sorrow. For these reasons, I avoid all these.
एताञ्शोकभयोत्सेकान्मोहनान्सुखदुःखयोः । पश्यामि साक्षिवल्लोके देहस्यास्य विचेष्टनात् ॥
English Translation
Grief, Fear, Pride,—these that stupefy the heart, and also Pleasure and Pain, I see as witness since my body is endued with life and moves about.
अर्थकामौ परित्यज्य विशोको विगतज्वरः । तृष्णामोहौ तु संत्यज्य चरामि पृथिवीमिमाम् ॥
English Translation
Knowing both riches and pleasure, and thirst and mistake, I wander over the Earth, freed from grief and every sort of anxiety of heart.
न मृत्युतो न चाधर्मान्न लोभान्न कुतश्चन । पीतामृतस्येवात्यन्तमिह चामुत्र वा भयम् ॥
English Translation
Like one that has drunk nectar I have no fear, either in this world or in the next, of death, or sin, or cupidity, or anything of that sort.
एतद्ब्रह्मन्विजानामि महत्कृत्वा तपोऽव्ययम् । तेन नारद संप्राप्तो न मां शोकः प्रबाधते ॥
English Translation
I have gained this knowledge, O Brahmana, as the outcome of my severe and indestructible penances. Therefore, O Narada, even when it comes to me, cannot affect me.
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