Special Call Prof. Jay L. Garfield Commemorative Volume · Submissions Open
Announcements Newsletters About Us Contact
Search
MBh
Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 296

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 296

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 296

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 296 of the classical Mahābhārata with 51 verses.

Total: 51 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.296.1–51 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
अप्रबुद्धमथाव्यक्तमिमं गुणविधिं शृणु । गुणान्धारयते ह्येषा सृजत्याक्षिपते तथा ॥
अजस्रं त्विह क्रीडार्थं विकुर्वन्ती नराधिप । आत्मानं बहुधा कृत्वा तान्येव च विचक्षते ॥
एतदेवं विकुर्वाणां बुध्यमानो न बुध्यते । अव्यक्तबोधनाच्चैव बुध्यमानं वदन्त्यपि ॥
English Translation
Carelessly for his sport, O king, does Individual Soul undergo changes and because he is capable of understanding the called action of the Unmanifest, therefore he is the Comprehender.
न त्वेव बुध्यतेऽव्यक्तं सगुणं वाथ निर्गुणम् । कदाचित्त्वेव खल्वेतदाहुरप्रतिबुद्धकम् ॥
English Translation
The Unmanifest or Nature can at no time comprehend Brahma which is really without qualities even when it shows itself with qualities. Hence is Nature called Unintelligent.
बुध्यते यदि वाव्यक्तमेतद्वै पञ्चविंशकम् । बुध्यमानो भवत्येष सङ्गात्मक इति श्रुतिः ॥
English Translation
There is a declaration of the Shrutis that is ever Nature does succeed in knowing the twenty fifth, she then becomes at one with the Individual Soul who is united with her. On account of this Individual Soul or Purusha, who is not manifest and which in his real nature is not subject to changes, comes to be called as the Unawakened or Ignorant.
अनेनाप्रतिबुद्धेति वदन्त्यव्यक्तमच्युतम् । अव्यक्तबोधनाच्चैव बुध्यमानं वदन्त्युत ॥
English Translation
There is a declaration of the Shrutis that is ever Nature does succeed in knowing the twenty fifth, she then becomes at one with the Individual Soul who is united with her. On account of this Individual Soul or Purusha, who is not manifest and which in his real nature is not subject to changes, comes to be called as the Unawakened or Ignorant.
पञ्चविंशं महात्मानं न चासावपि बुध्यते । षड्विंशं विमलं बुद्धमप्रमेयं सनातनम् ॥
English Translation
Indeed, because the twenty-fifth can comprehend the Unmanifest, he is, therefore, called Comprehender. He cannot, however readily, comprehened the twenty-sixth, which is pure, which is Knowledge without duality, which is immeasurable, and which is eternal. The twenty-sixth, however, can know both the Individual Soul and Nature, numbering the twenty-fifth and the twenty-fourth respectively.
सततं पञ्चविंशं च चतुर्विंशं च बुध्यते । दृश्यादृश्ये ह्यनुगतमुभावेव महाद्युती ॥
अव्यक्तं न तु तद्ब्रह्म बुध्यते तात केवलम् । केवलं पञ्चविंशं च चतुर्विंशं न पश्यति ॥
बुध्यमानो यदात्मानमन्योऽहमिति मन्यते । तदा प्रकृतिमानेष भवत्यव्यक्तलोचनः ॥
बुध्यते च परां बुद्धिं विशुद्धाममलां यदा । षड्विंशो राजशार्दूल तदा बुद्धत्वमाव्रजेत् ॥
ततस्त्यजति सोऽव्यक्तं सर्गप्रलयधर्मिणम् । निर्गुणः प्रकृतिं वेद गुणयुक्तामचेतनाम् ॥
ततः केवलधर्मासौ भवत्यव्यक्तदर्शनात् । केवलेन समागम्य विमुक्तोऽऽत्मानमाप्नुयात् ॥
एतत्तत्तत्त्वमित्याहुर्निस्तत्त्वमजरामरम् । तत्त्वसंश्रयणादेतत्तत्त्ववन्न च मानद । पञ्चविंशतितत्त्वानि प्रवदन्ति मनीषिणः ॥
English Translation
O giver of honours, the Soul, though it has the body for its resting place, yet it cannot be said to have acquired the nature of those principles. The wise say that there are five and twenty principles in all.
न चैष तत्त्ववांस्तात निस्तत्त्वस्त्वेष बुद्धिमान् । एष मुञ्चति तत्त्वं हि क्षिप्रं बुद्धस्य लक्षणम् ॥
English Translation
Indeed, O son, the Soul not to be considered as possessed of any of the principles. Endued with Intelligence, it is above the principles. It renounces quickly even that principle which is the mark of Knowledge.
षड्विंशोऽहमिति प्राज्ञो गृह्यमाणोऽजरामरः । केवलेन बलेनैव समतां यात्यसंशयम् ॥
English Translation
When Individual Soul comes to regard himself as the twenty-sixth which is divested of decay and destruction, it is then that, forsooth, he succeeds by his own force in attaining to similarity with the twenty-sixth.
षड्विंशेन प्रबुद्धेन बुध्यमानोऽप्यबुद्धिमान् । एतन्नानात्वमित्युक्तं सांख्यश्रुतिनिदर्शनात् ॥
English Translation
Though awakened by the twenty-sixth which is Pure Intelligence, Individual Soul still becomes subject to Ignorance. This is the cause of Jiva's multifariousness as explanied in the Shrutis and the Sankhya scriptures.
चेतनेन समेतस्य पञ्चविंशतिकस्य च । एकत्वं वै भवत्यस्य यदा बुद्ध्या न बुध्यते ॥
English Translation
When Individual Soul, who is endued with consciousness, loses all Consciousness of a distinct or individual self, then does he, losing his multifariousness, resume his Oneness.
बुध्यमानोऽप्रबुद्धेन समतां याति मैथिल । सङ्गधर्मा भवत्येष निःसङ्गात्मा नराधिप ॥
English Translation
O king, of Mithila, when Individual Soul, who is found to be in union with happiness and misery and who is seldom free from the consciousness of self, becomes identified with the Supreme Soul which transcends understanding, then does he becomes freed from virtue and vice.
निःसङ्गात्मानमासाद्य षड्विंशकमजं विदुः । विभुस्त्यजति चाव्यक्तं यदा त्वेतद्विबुध्यते । चतुर्विंशमगाधं च षड्विंशस्य प्रबोधनात् ॥
English Translation
Indeed, when Individual soul attaining to the twenty-sixth which is Unborn and Powerful and which is shorn of all attachments, succeeds in comprehend it thoroughly, he himself becomes possessed of power and entirely renounces the Unmanifest or Nature.
एष ह्यप्रतिबुद्धश्च बुध्यमानश्च तेऽनघ । प्रोक्तो बुद्धश्च तत्त्वेन यथाश्रुतिनिदर्शनात् । नानात्वैकत्वमेतावद्द्रष्टव्यं शास्त्रदृष्टिभिः ॥
English Translation
For understanding the twenty-sixth, the twenty-four principles seem to Individual soul to be unreal. I have thus told you, O sinless one, according to the indications of the Shrutis the nature of the Unintelligent, and of Individual Soul, as also of that which is Pure knowledge, agreeably to the truth. Guided by the scriptures, variety and oneness are thus to be understood.
मशकोदुम्बरे यद्वदन्यत्वं तद्वदेतयोः । मत्स्योऽम्भसि यथा तद्वदन्यत्वमुपलभ्यते ॥
English Translation
The difference between the gnat and the Udumvara, or that between the fish and water, illustrates the difference between the Individual Soul and the Supreme Soul.
एवमेवावगन्तव्यं नानात्वैकत्वमेतयोः । एतद्विमोक्ष इत्युक्तमव्यक्तज्ञानसंहितम् ॥
English Translation
The Multiplicity and Oneness of these two are to be understood thus. This is called Liberation, viz., this comprehension of oneself as something distinct from Unintelligent or Unmanifest Nature.
पञ्चविंशतिकस्यास्य योऽयं देहेषु वर्तते । एष मोक्षयितव्येति प्राहुरव्यक्तगोचरात् ॥
English Translation
The twenty-fifth, which lives in the bodies of living creatures, should be liberated making him know the Unmanifest or the Supreme Soul which is above the understading.
सोऽयमेवं विमुच्येत नान्यथेति विनिश्चयः । परेण परधर्मा च भवत्येष समेत्य वै ॥
English Translation
Indeed, that twenty-fifth is capable of acquiring Liberation in this way only and not through any other means. Though insooth different from the body in which he lives for the time being, he partakes of the nature of that body on account of his union with it.
विशुद्धधर्मा शुद्धेन बुद्धेन च स बुद्धिमान् । विमुक्तधर्मा मुक्तेन समेत्य पुरुषर्षभ ॥
English Translation
Uniting with what is Pure, he becomes Pure. Uniting with the Intelligent, he becomes Intelligent. By uniting, O foremost of men, with one that is Liberate he becomes Liberated.
नियोगधर्मिणा चैव नियोगात्मा भवत्यपि । विमोक्षिणा विमोक्षश्च समेत्येह तथा भवेत् ॥
English Translation
By uniting with one who is shorn of all attachments, he becomes freed from all attachments. By uniting with one striving after Liberation, he himself partaking of the nature of his companion, strives after Liberation.
शुचिकर्मा शुचिश्चैव भवत्यमितदीप्तिमान् । विमलात्मा च भवति समेत्य विमलात्मना ॥
English Translation
By uniting with one of pure acts, he becomes pure and of pure acts and endued with blazing effulgence. By uniting with one of pure soul, he becomes of pure soul himself.
केवलात्मा तथा चैव केवलेन समेत्य वै । स्वतन्त्रश्च स्वतन्त्रेण स्वतन्त्रत्वमवाप्नुते ॥
English Translation
By uniting with the One independent Soul, he becomes One and Independent. Uniting with One that is dependent on One's Own Self, he attains to the same nature and acquires Independence.
← Previous (Ch. 1623) Full Table of Contents Next (Ch. 1625) →