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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 293

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 293

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 293

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 293 of the classical Mahābhārata with 51 verses.

Total: 51 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.293.1–51 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
एवमप्रतिबुद्धत्वादबुद्धजनसेवनात् । सर्गकोटिसहस्राणि पतनान्तानि गच्छति ॥
English Translation
Yudhishthira said It is thus, on account of his Ignorance and his association with others who are invested with Ignorance, that Individual Soul passes through millions and millions of births every one of which has dissolution in the end.
धाम्ना धामसहस्राणि मरणान्तानि गच्छति । तिर्यग्योनौ मनुष्यत्वे देवलोके तथैव च ॥
English Translation
On account of his transformation into Intelligence invested with Ignorance, Individual Soul goes to millions of abodes, every one of which is liable to end in Jostruction, among intermediate beings and men and the gods.
चन्द्रमा इव कोशानां पुनस्तत्र सहस्रशः । लीयतेऽप्रतिबुद्धत्वादेवमेष ह्यबुद्धिमान् ॥
English Translation
On account of Ignorance, Individual Soul like the Moon, has to wax and wane thousands and thousands of times. This is truly the nature of Individual Soul when invested with Ignorance. Know that the Moon has in reality full sixteen portions. Only fifteen of these are subject to increase and decrease. The sixteenth remains constant. after the manner of the Moon, Individual Soul too has full appear and disappear. The sixteenth is subject to no change.
कलाः पञ्चदशा योनिस्तद्धाम इति पठ्यते । नित्यमेतद्विजानीहि सोमः षोडशमी कला ॥
कलायां जायतेऽजस्रं पुनः पुनरबुद्धिमान् । धाम तस्योपयुञ्जन्ति भूय एव तु जायते ॥
English Translation
Invested with Ignorance, Individual Soul repeatedly and continually takes birth in the fifteen portions, named above. With the etemai and immutable portion of Individual Soul the principal elements become united and this union takes place repeatedly.
षोडशी तु कला सूक्ष्मा स सोम उपधार्यताम् । न तूपयुज्यते देवैर्देवानुपयुनक्ति सा ॥
English Translation
That sixteenth portion is subtile. It should be known as Soma. It is never upheld by the senses. On the other hand, the senses are upheld by it.
एवं तां क्षपयित्वा हि जायते नृपसत्तम । सा ह्यस्य प्रकृतिर्दृष्टा तत्क्षयान्मोक्ष उच्यते ॥
English Translation
Since those sixteen portions are the cause of the birth of creatures, creatures can never, O king, take birth without their help. They are called Nature. The destruction of Jiva's liability to be united with nature is called Liberation.
तदेवं षोडशकलं देहमव्यक्तसंज्ञकम् । ममायमिति मन्वानस्तत्रैव परिवर्तते ॥
पञ्चविंशस्तथैवात्मा तस्यैवा प्रतिबोधनात् । विमलस्य विशुद्धस्य शुद्धानिलनिषेवणात् ॥
अशुद्ध एव शुद्धात्मा तादृग्भवति पार्थिव । अबुद्धसेवनाच्चापि बुद्धोऽप्यबुधतां व्रजेत् ॥
तथैवाप्रतिबुद्धोऽपि ज्ञेयो नृपतिसत्तम । प्रकृतेस्त्रिगुणायास्तु सेवनात्प्राकृतो भवेत् ॥
English Translation
Though, O king, free from error of every sort, yet on account of its devotion to the three qualities of Nature, it becomes endued with those attributes.
अक्षरक्षरयोरेष द्वयोः संबन्ध इष्यते । स्त्रीपुंसोर्वापि भगवन्संबन्धस्तद्वदुच्यते ॥
English Translation
Janaka said O holy one, it has been said that the relation between male and female is like that which exists between the Indestructible and the Destructible.
ऋते न पुरुषेणेह स्त्री गर्भं धारयत्युत । ऋते स्त्रियं न पुरुषो रूपं निर्वर्तयेत्तथा ॥
English Translation
Without a male, a female can never conceive. Without a female, a male also can never create a form.
अन्योन्यस्याभिसंबन्धादन्योन्यगुणसंश्रयात् । रूपं निर्वर्तयत्येतदेवं सर्वासु योनिषु ॥
English Translation
On account of their union with each other, and each depending upon the qualities of the other, forms are seen to spring up. This is the case with all orders of being.
रत्यर्थमभिसंरोधादन्योन्यगुणसंश्रयात् । ऋतौ निर्वर्तते रूपं तद्वक्ष्यामि निदर्शनम् ॥
English Translation
Through each other's union for purposes of (sexual) intercourse, and through each depending upon the qualities of the other, forms (of living creatures) flow in seasons. I shall tell you the indications thereof.
ये गुणाः पुरुषस्येह ये च मातृगुणास्तथा । अस्थि स्नायु च मज्जा च जानीमः पितृतो द्विज ॥
English Translation
Hear what the qualities are which belong to the father and what those are which belong to mother. Bones, sinews, and marrow, O twiceborn one, we know, originate from the father.
त्वङ्मांसं शोणितं चैव मातृजान्यपि शुश्रुम । एवमेतद्द्विजश्रेष्ठ वेदशास्त्रेषु पठ्यते ॥
English Translation
Skin, flesh, and blood, we hear, originate from the mother. Even this, O foremost of twice-born ones, is what may be read of in the Veda and other scriptures.
प्रमाणं यच्च वेदोक्तं शास्त्रोक्तं यच्च पठ्यते । वेदशास्त्रप्रमाणं च प्रमाणं तत्सनातनम् ॥
English Translation
Whatever is read as said in the Vedas and in other scriptures is considered as authority. The authority, again, of the Vedas and other scriptures, is eternal.
एवमेवाभिसंबद्धौ नित्यं प्रकृतिपूरुषौ । पश्यामि भगवंस्तस्मान्मोक्षधर्मो न विद्यते ॥
English Translation
If Nature and Soul be always united together in this way by each opposing and cach depending on the other's qualities, I see, O holy one, that Liberation cannot exist. You, O holy one, are gifted with spiritual vision so that you see all things as if they are present before your eyes. If, therefore, there be any direct evidence of the existence of Liberation, do speak of it to me.
अथ वानन्तरकृतं किंचिदेव निदर्शनम् । तन्ममाचक्ष्व तत्त्वेन प्रत्यक्षो ह्यसि सर्वथा ॥
मोक्षकामा वयं चापि काङ्क्षामो यदनामयम् । अदेहमजरं दिव्यमतीन्द्रियमनीश्वरम् ॥
English Translation
We are desirous of acquiring Liberation. Indeed, we wish to acquire That which is auspicious, bodiless, not subject to decrepitude, eternal, beyond the perception of the senses, and having nothing superior to it.
यदेतदुक्तं भवता वेदशास्त्रनिदर्शनम् । एवमेतद्यथा चैतन्न गृह्णाति तथा भवान् ॥
English Translation
Vashishtha said What you say about the characteristics of the Vedas and the other scriptures is even so. You understand those marks in the way in which they should be understood.
धार्यते हि त्वया ग्रन्थ उभयोर्वेदशास्त्रयोः । न तु ग्रन्थस्य तत्त्वज्ञो यथावत्त्वं नरेश्वर ॥
English Translation
O lord of kings, you only understand aright the texts of the Vedas and other scriptures without understanding the true senses or meaning of those texts, remembering them fruitlessly.
यो हि वेदे च शास्त्रे च ग्रन्थधारणतत्परः । न च ग्रन्थार्थतत्त्वज्ञस्तस्य तद्धारणं वृथा ॥
English Translation
Indeed, one who remembers a work without understanding their meaning, is said to carry an useless load. He, however, who understands the true meaning of a treatise, is said to have studied that work to purpose.
भारं स वहते तस्य ग्रन्थस्यार्थं न वेत्ति यः । यस्तु ग्रन्थार्थतत्त्वज्ञो नास्य ग्रन्थागमो वृथा ॥
English Translation
Indeed, one who remembers a work without understanding their meaning, is said to carry an useless load. He, however, who understands the true meaning of a treatise, is said to have studied that work to purpose.
ग्रन्थस्यार्थं च पृष्टः संस्तादृशो वक्तुमर्हति । यथा तत्त्वाभिगमनादर्थं तस्य स विन्दति ॥
English Translation
Asked about the meaning of a text, one should communicate that meaning which he has understood by a careful study.
यस्तु संसत्सु कथयेद्ग्रन्थार्थं स्थूलबुद्धिमान् । स कथं मन्दविज्ञानो ग्रन्थं वक्ष्यति निर्णयात् ॥
English Translation
That person of dull intelligence who refuses to explain the meanings of text in the midst of an assemblage of the learned, that person of foolish understanding, never succeeds in explaining the meaning aright.
निर्णयं चापि छिद्रात्मा न तं वक्ष्यति तत्त्वतः । सोपहासात्मतामेति यस्माच्चैवात्मवानपि ॥
English Translation
An ignorant wight, going to explain the true meaning of treatises, incurs ridicule. Even those endued with a knowledge of the Soul have to incurs ridicule on such occasions.
तस्मात्त्वं शृणु राजेन्द्र यथैतदनुदृश्यते । याथातथ्येन सांख्येषु योगेषु च महात्मसु ॥
English Translation
Listen now to me, O king, as to how the subject of Liberation has been explained among the great persons conversant with the Sankhya and the Yoga Systems of Philosophy.
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