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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 294

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 294

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 294

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 294 of the classical Mahābhārata with 50 verses.

Total: 50 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.294.1–50 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
नानात्वैकत्वमित्युक्तं त्वयैतदृषिसत्तम । पश्यामि चाभिसंदिग्धमेतयोर्वै निदर्शनम् ॥
English Translation
Janaka said You have, O foremost of Rishis, said that Unity is the attribute of that which is Indestructible and variety or multiplicity is the attribute of what is known as Destructible. I have not, however, clearly understood the nature of these two. Doubts are still in my mind.
तथाप्रबुद्धबुद्धाभ्यां बुध्यमानस्य चानघ । स्थूलबुद्ध्या न पश्यामि तत्त्वमेतन्न संशयः ॥
English Translation
Ignorant men consider the Soul as endued with multiplicity. They, however, who are endued with knowledge and wisdom consider the Soul to be one and the same. I, however, have a very dull understanding. I am, therefore, unable to understand how all this can take place.
अक्षरक्षरयोरुक्तं त्वया यदपि कारणम् । तदप्यस्थिरबुद्धित्वात्प्रनष्टमिव मेऽनघ ॥
English Translation
I have almost forgotten the causes also that you have attributed to the unity and the multiplicity of the Indestructible and the Destructible on account of the restlessness of my understanding.
तदेतच्छ्रोतुमिच्छामि नानात्वैकत्वदर्शनम् । बुद्धमप्रतिबुद्धं च बुध्यमानं च तत्त्वतः ॥
English Translation
I, therefore, wish to hear you once more discourse to me on those subjects of unity and multiplicity, on him who is gifted with knowledge, on what is shorn of knowledge, on Individual Soul, Knowledge, Ignorance, on Indestructible, Destructible, and the Sankhya and the Yoga systems, in detail and separately and agreeable to the truth.
विद्याविद्ये च भगवन्नक्षरं क्षरमेव च । सांख्यं योगं च कार्त्स्न्येन पृथक्चैवापृथक्च ह ॥
हन्त ते संप्रवक्ष्यामि यदेतदनुपृच्छसि । योगकृत्यं महाराज पृथगेव शृणुष्व मे ॥
English Translation
Vashishtha said I shall tell you what you ask. Listen, however, to me, O king, as I explain to you the practices of Yoga separately.
योगकृत्यं तु योगानां ध्यानमेव परं बलम् । तच्चापि द्विविधं ध्यानमाहुर्वेदविदो जनाः ॥
English Translation
Contemplation, which forms an obligatory practice with Yogins, is their highest power, Those conversant with Yoga say that that Contemplation is of two sorts.
एकाग्रता च मनसः प्राणायामस्तथैव च । प्राणायामस्तु सगुणो निर्गुणो मनसस्तथा ॥
English Translation
One is the concentration of the mind, and the other is called Pranayama (suppression of vital airs). Pranayama is said to be real; while concentration of mind is unsubstantial to it.
मूत्रोत्सर्गे पुरीषे च भोजने च नराधिप । त्रिकालं नाभियुञ्जीत शेषं युञ्जीत तत्परः ॥
English Translation
Excepting the three times when a man passes urine and stools and eats, one should devote his entire time to contemplation.
इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेभ्यो निवर्त्य मनसा मुनिः । दशद्वादशभिर्वापि चतुर्विंशात्परं ततः ॥
English Translation
Withdrawing the senses from their objects by the help of the mind, one gifted with intelligence, having made oneself pure, should, according to the twenty-two modes of transmitting the Prana breath, unite the Individual Soul with That which is above the four and twentieth topic which is regarded by the wise as living in every part of the body and as above decay and destruction.
तं चोदनाभिर्मतिमानात्मानं चोदयेदथ । तिष्ठन्तमजरं तं तु यत्तदुक्तं मनीषिभिः ॥
English Translation
Withdrawing the senses from their objects by the help of the mind, one gifted with intelligence, having made oneself pure, should, according to the twenty-two modes of transmitting the Prana breath, unite the Individual Soul with That which is above the four and twentieth topic which is regarded by the wise as living in every part of the body and as above decay and destruction.
तैश्चात्मा सततं ज्ञेय इत्येवमनुशुश्रुम । द्रव्यं ह्यहीनमनसो नान्यथेति विनिश्चयः ॥
English Translation
It is by means of those twenty-two modes that the Soul may always be known. It is certain that this practice of Yoga is his whose mind is never possessed by evil passions. It is not any other person's.
विमुक्तः सर्वसङ्गेभ्यो लघ्वाहारो जितेन्द्रियः । पूर्वरात्रे परे चैव धारयेत मनोऽऽत्मनि ॥
स्थिरीकृत्येन्द्रियग्रामं मनसा मिथिलेश्वर । मनो बुद्ध्या स्थिरं कृत्वा पाषाण इव निश्चलः ॥
English Translation
Freed from all attachments, abstemious in diet, and controlling all the senses, one should fix his mind on the Soul, during the first and the last part of the night, after having, O king of Mithila, stopped the functions of all the senses, quieted the mind by the understanding, and assumed a posture as motionless as that of stone.
स्थाणुवच्चाप्यकम्पः स्याद्गिरिवच्चापि निश्चलः । बुधा विधिविधानज्ञास्तदा युक्तं प्रचक्षते ॥
English Translation
When men of knowledge, conversant with the rules of Yoga, become as fixed as a stake of wood, and as immovable as a mountain, then they are said to be in Yoga.
न शृणोति न चाघ्राति न रस्यति न पश्यति । न च स्पर्शं विजानाति न संकल्पयते मनः ॥
English Translation
When one does not hear, and smell and taste, and see; when one does not feel any touch; when one's mind is perfectly free from every purpose; when one is not conscious of any thing, when one cherishes no thought, when one becomes like a piece of wood, then is he called by the wise to be in perfect Yoga.
न चाभिमन्यते किंचिन्न च बुध्यति काष्ठवत् । तदा प्रकृतिमापन्नं युक्तमाहुर्मनीषिणः ॥
English Translation
When one does not hear, and smell and taste, and see; when one does not feel any touch; when one's mind is perfectly free from every purpose; when one is not conscious of any thing, when one cherishes no thought, when one becomes like a piece of wood, then is he called by the wise to be in perfect Yoga.
निवाते च यथा दीप्यन्दीपस्तद्वत्स दृश्यते । निरिङ्गश्चाचलश्चोर्ध्वं न तिर्यग्गतिमाप्नुयात् ॥
English Translation
At such a time one shines like a limp that burns in a place where blows no wind; at such a time one becomes freed even from his subtile form, and perfectly at one with Brahma. When one acquires such progress, he has no longer to ascend or to fall among intermediate beings.
तदा तमनुपश्येत यस्मिन्दृष्टे तु कथ्यते । हृदयस्थोऽन्तरात्मेति ज्ञेयो ज्ञस्तात मद्विधैः ॥
English Translation
When persons like ourselves say that there has been a complete identification of Knower, the Known, and Knowledge, then is the Yogin said to see the Supreme Self.
विधूम इव सप्तार्चिरादित्य इव रश्मिमान् । वैद्युतोऽग्निरिवाकाशे दृश्यतेऽऽत्मा तथात्मनि ॥
English Translation
While in Yoga, the Supreme Soul shows itself in the Yogin's heart like a burning fire, or like the bright Sun or like the lightning's spark in the firmament.
यं पश्यन्ति महात्मानो धृतिमन्तो मनीषिणः । ब्राह्मणा ब्रह्मयोनिष्ठा ह्ययोनिममृतात्मकम् ॥
English Translation
That Supreme Soul which is Unborn and which is the essence of nectar, which is seen by great Brahmanas gifted with intelligence and wisdom and conversant with the Vedas, is subtiler than what is subtile and greater than what is great. That Soul, though living in all creatures, is not seen by them.
तदेवाहुरणुभ्योऽणु तन्महद्भ्यो महत्तरम् । तदन्तः सर्वभूतेषु ध्रुवं तिष्ठन्न दृश्यते ॥
English Translation
That Supreme Soul which is Unborn and which is the essence of nectar, which is seen by great Brahmanas gifted with intelligence and wisdom and conversant with the Vedas, is subtiler than what is subtile and greater than what is great. That Soul, though living in all creatures, is not seen by them.
बुद्धिद्रव्येण दृश्येत मनोदीपेन लोककृत् । महतस्तमसस्तात पारे तिष्ठन्नतामसः ॥
English Translation
The Creator of the worlds, He is seen only by a person gifted with wealth of intelligence when helped by the lamp of the mind. He lives on the other shore of the Darkness and is above the Ishvara.
स तमोनुद इत्युक्तस्तत्त्वज्ञैर्वेदपारगैः । विमलो वितमस्कश्च निर्लिङ्गोऽलिङ्गसंज्ञितः ॥
English Translation
Persons conversant with the Vedas and endued with omniscience call Him the remover of Darkness, stainless, above Darkness, and with and without attributes.
योगमेतद्धि योगानां मन्ये योगस्य लक्षणम् । एवं पश्यं प्रपश्यन्ति आत्मानमजरं परम् ॥
English Translation
This is what is called the Yoga of Yogins. What else is the mark of Yoga? By such practices do Yogins succeed in seeing the Supreme Soul that is above destruction and decay.
योगदर्शनमेतावदुक्तं ते तत्त्वतो मया । सांख्यज्ञानं प्रवक्ष्यामि परिसंख्यानिदर्शनम् ॥
English Translation
This much that I have told you in detail is about the Science of Yoga. I shall now describe to you that Sankhya philosophy by which the Supreme Soul is seen through the gradual destruction of mistakes.
अव्यक्तमाहुः प्रकृतिं परां प्रकृतिवादिनः । तस्मान्महत्समुत्पन्नं द्वितीयं राजसत्तम ॥
English Translation
The Sankhyas, whose System is built on Nature, say that Nature, which is Unmanifest, is the foremost. From Nature they say, O king, the second principle called Greatness is produced.
अहंकारस्तु महतस्तृतीयमिति नः श्रुतम् । पञ्च भूतान्यहंकारादाहुः सांख्यानुदर्शिनः ॥
English Translation
We have heard that from Greatness originates the third principle called Consciousness. The Sankhyas blessed with sight of the Soul say that from Consciousness originate the five subtile essences of sound, form, touch, taste, and scent.
एताः प्रकृतयस्त्वष्टौ विकाराश्चापि षोडश । पञ्च चैव विशेषा वै तथा पञ्चेन्द्रियाणि च ॥
English Translation
All these eight they call by the name of Nature. The changes of these eight are sixteen in number. They are the five gross essences of ether, light, earth, water and wind, and the ten senses of action and of knowledge including the mind.
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