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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 287

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 287

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 287

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 287 of the classical Mahābhārata with 46 verses.

Total: 46 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.287.1–46 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
पुनरेव तु पप्रच्छ जनको मिथिलाधिपः । पराशरं महात्मानं धर्मे परमनिश्चयम् ॥
English Translation
Daksha said Once again Janaka, the king of Mithila, asked the great Parashara gifted with certain knowledge regarding all duties.
किं श्रेयः का गतिर्ब्रह्मन्किं कृतं न विनश्यति । क्व गतो न निवर्तेत तन्मे ब्रूहि महामुने ॥
English Translation
Janaka said What yields good? What is the best path (for living creatures)? What is that which being done is never destroyed? What is that spot going where one has not to return? Tell me all this, O you of great intelligence.
असङ्गः श्रेयसो मूलं ज्ञानं ज्ञानगतिः परा । चीर्णं तपो न प्रणश्येद्वापः क्षेत्रे न नश्यति ॥
English Translation
Parashara said Dissociation is the root of what is good. Knowledge is the greatest path. Penances practised are never destroyed. Gifts also, made to worthy persons, are not lost.
छित्त्वाधर्ममयं पाशं यदा धर्मेऽभिरज्यते । दत्त्वाभयकृतं दानं तदा सिद्धिमवाप्नुयात् ॥
English Translation
When one, snapping the fetters of sin, begins to take pleasure in virtue, and when one makes that highest of all gifts, viz., the promise of all harmlessness to all creatures, then does one acquire success.
यो ददाति सहस्राणि गवामश्वशतानि च । अभयं सर्वभूतेभ्यस्तद्दानमतिवर्तते ॥
English Translation
He who gives away thousands of kine and hundreds of horses, and who promises harmlessness to all creatures receives in return the promise of harmlessness from all.
वसन्विषयमध्येऽपि न वसत्येव बुद्धिमान् । संवसत्येव दुर्बुद्धिरसत्सु विषयेष्वपि ॥
English Translation
One may live in the midst of all sorts or riches and cnjoyment, yet, if blessed with intelligence, one does not live in them; while he who is shorn of intelligence lives wholly in objects of enjoyment which unsubstantial.
नाधर्मः श्लिष्यते प्राज्ञमापः पुष्करपर्णवत् । अप्राज्ञमधिकं पापं श्लिष्यते जतु काष्ठवत् ॥
English Translation
Sin cannot attach to a wise man as water cannot drench the leaves of the lotus. Sin sticks more firmly to him who is without attachment as lac and wood stick firmly to each other.
नाधर्मः कारणापेक्षी कर्तारमभिमुञ्चति । कर्ता खलु यथाकालं तत्सर्वमभिपद्यते । न भिद्यन्ते कृतात्मान आत्मप्रत्ययदर्शिनः ॥
English Translation
Sin, which cannot be dissipated except by endurance of its fruits, never leaves the doer. The doer, when the time comes, has to suffer the consequences thereof. They, however, who are of purified souls and who realise the cxistence of Brahma, are never afflicted by the fruits of their deeds. are even
बुद्धिकर्मेन्द्रियाणां हि प्रमत्तो यो न बुध्यते । शुभाशुभेषु सक्तात्मा प्राप्नोति सुमहद्भयम् ॥
English Translation
Careless in about one's senses of knowledge and of action, one who is not conscious of his wicked deeds, and whose heart is attached to both good and bad, becomes afflicted with great fear.
वीतरागो जितक्रोधः सम्यग्भवति यः सदा । विषये वर्तमानोऽपि न स पापेन युज्यते ॥
English Translation
One who at all times becomes entirely freed from attachments and who completely subdues the passion of anger, is never sullied by sin even if he lives in the enjoyment of worldly objects.
मर्यादायां धर्मसेतुर्निबद्धो नैव सीदति । पुष्टस्रोत इवायत्तः स्फीतो भवति संचयः ॥
English Translation
As a dyke set across a river, if not washed away, makes the waters thereof to swell up, so the man who, without being attached to objects of pleasure, creates the dyke of virtue whose materials consist of the limitations set down in the scriptures, has never to wane away. On the other hand, his merits and penances, increase.
यथा भानुगतं तेजो मणिः शुद्धः समाधिना । आदत्ते राजशार्दूल तथा योगः प्रवर्तते ॥
English Translation
As the pure gem absorbs and attracts to itself, according to the natural law, the rays of the Sun, so, O foremost of kings, does Yoga proceed by help of rapt attention.
यथा तिलानामिह पुष्पसंश्रया;त्पृथक्पृथग्याति गुणोऽतिसौम्यताम् । तथा नराणां भुवि भावितात्मनां; यथाश्रयं सत्त्वगुणः प्रवर्तते ॥
English Translation
As sesame seeds, for being always with sweet-scented flowers, become in respect of quality very sweet, so the quality of Goodness arises in men proportionate to the extent of their association with persons of purified souls.
जहाति दारानिहते न संपदः; सदश्वयानं विविधाश्च याः क्रियाः । त्रिविष्टपे जातमतिर्यदा नर;स्तदास्य बुद्धिर्विषयेषु भिद्यते ॥
English Translation
When one becomes desirous of living in heaven, he abandons his wives and riches and rank and vehicles and various sorts of good deeds. indeed, when one gets such a bent of mind, his understanding is said to be dissociated from the objects of the senses.
प्रसक्तबुद्धिर्विषयेषु यो नरो; यो बुध्यते ह्यात्महितं कदा च न । स सर्वभावानुगतेन चेतसा; नृपामिषेणेव झषो विकृष्यते ॥
English Translation
That man who, with understanding attached to the objects of the senses, becomes blind to what is for his real well-beings, is dragged by his heart which runs after all earthly objects, like a fish by the bait of meat.
संघातवान्मर्त्यलोकः परस्परमपाश्रितः । कदलीगर्भनिःसारो नौरिवाप्सु निमज्जति ॥
English Translation
Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another. They are weak like the pith of the banana plant. They sink in the world's ocean like a boat.
न धर्मकालः पुरुषस्य निश्चितो; न चापि मृत्युः पुरुषं प्रतीक्षते । क्रिया हि धर्मस्य सदैव शोभना; यदा नरो मृत्युमुखेऽभिवर्तते ॥
English Translation
There is no fixed time for the acquisition of virtue. Death waits for no man. When man is constantly running towards the jaws of Death, the doing of pious deeds is proper at all times.
यथान्धः स्वगृहे युक्तो ह्यभ्यासादेव गच्छति । तथा युक्तेन मनसा प्राज्ञो गच्छति तां गतिम् ॥
English Translation
Like a blind man who, with attention, can move about his own house, the wise man, with mind fixed on Yoga, can proceed along the road.
मरणं जन्मनि प्रोक्तं जन्म वै मरणाश्रितम् । अविद्वान्मोक्षधर्मेषु बद्धो भ्रमति चक्रवत् ॥
English Translation
It has been said that death originates from birth. Birth is subject to the control of death. One unacquainted with the course of the duties of Liberation revolves like a wheel between birth and death, unable to free himself from that fate.
यथा मृणालोऽनुगतमाशु मुञ्चति कर्दमम् । तथात्मा पुरुषस्येह मनसा परिमुच्यते । मनः प्रणयतेऽऽत्मानं स एनमभियुञ्जति ॥
English Translation
As the lotus stalk quickly leaves the mire attached to it, so the Soul can quickly renounce the mind.
परार्थे वर्तमानस्तु स्वकार्यं योऽभिमन्यते । इन्द्रियार्थेषु सक्तः सन्स्वकार्यात्परिहीयते ॥
English Translation
Engaged amid the objects of the senses, one who considers such engagement to be his employment falls away from his true employment on account of such devotion to those objects.
अधस्तिर्यग्गतिं चैव स्वर्गे चैव परां गतिम् । प्राप्नोति स्वकृतैरात्मा प्राज्ञस्येहेतरस्य च ॥
English Translation
The soul of the wise man acquires, through its pious deeds, a state of great happiness in heaven, while that of the man who is not endued with wisdom sinks very low or is born among intermediate creatures.
मृन्मये भाजने पक्वे यथा वै न्यस्यते द्रवः । तथा शरीरं तपसा तप्तं विषयमश्नुते ॥
English Translation
As a liquid substance, if kept in a baked earthen pot, does not escape therefrom but remains undiminished similarly, one's body with which one had practised penances enjoys (without rejecting) all objects of pleasure.
विषयानश्नुते यस्तु न स भोक्ष्यत्यसंशयम् । यस्तु भोगांस्त्यजेदात्मा स वै भोक्तुं व्यवस्यति ॥
English Translation
Verily, that man who enjoys earthly objects can never be liberated. That man, however, who renounces such objects, succeeds in enjoying great happiness hereafter.
नीहारेण हि संवीतः शिश्नोदरपरायणः । जात्यन्ध इव पन्थानमावृतात्मा न बुध्यते ॥
English Translation
Like one suffering from blindness and, therefore, incapable of seeing his way, the sensualist, with soul confined in an opaque case, seems to be surrounded by a mist and cannot see (the true object).
वणिग्यथा समुद्राद्वै यथार्थं लभते धनम् । तथा मर्त्यार्णवे जन्तोः कर्मविज्ञानतो गतिः ॥
English Translation
As merchants, going across the sea, make profits according to their capital, so creatures, in this world of men, attain to ends proportionate to their respective deeds.
अहोरात्रमये लोके जरारूपेण संचरन् । मृत्युर्ग्रसति भूतानि पवनं पन्नगो यथा ॥
English Translation
Like a snake devouring air, Death walks in this world made up of days and nights in the form of Decrepitude and devours all ceatures.
स्वयं कृतानि कर्माणि जातो जन्तुः प्रपद्यते । नाकृतं लभते कश्चित्किंचिदत्र प्रियाप्रियम् ॥
English Translation
A creature, when born, enjoys or suffers the fruits of deeds done by him in his pristine lives. There is nothing agreeable or disagreeable which one enjoys or suffers without its being the result of the deeds one has done in his previous lives.
शयानं यान्तमासीनं प्रवृत्तं विषयेषु च । शुभाशुभानि कर्माणि प्रपद्यन्ते नरं सदा ॥
English Translation
Whether lying or proceeding, whether sitting idly or engaged in his business, in whatever state a man may be, his pristine deeds good or bad, always approach him.
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