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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 309

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 309

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 309

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 309 of the classical Mahābhārata with 93 verses.

Total: 93 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.309.1–93 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 4 (Verses 30 shown)
कथं निर्वेदमापन्नः शुको वैयासकिः पुरा । एतदिच्छामि कौरव्य श्रोतुं कौतूहलं हि मे ॥
English Translation
Yudhishthira said How was Shuka the son of Vyasa, in days of yore, won over to Renunciation? I wish to hear you recite the story. My curiosity about it is irrepressible.
प्राकृतेन सुवृत्तेन चरन्तमकुतोभयम् । अध्याप्य कृत्स्नं स्वाध्यायमन्वशाद्वै पिता सुतम् ॥
English Translation
Bhishma said Seeing his son Shuka living fearlessly as ordinary men do in practices that are regarded innocent by them, Vyasa taught him the entire Vedas and then discoursed to him one day in following manner.
धर्मं पुत्र निषेवस्व सुतीक्ष्णौ हि हिमातपौ । क्षुत्पिपासे च वायुं च जय नित्यं जितेन्द्रियः ॥
English Translation
Vyasa said O son, becoming the master of your senses, do you conquer extreme cold and extreme heat, hunger and thirst, and the wind also, and having controlled them, do you practise virtue.
सत्यमार्जवमक्रोधमनसूयां दमं तपः । अहिंसां चानृशंस्यं च विधिवत्परिपालय ॥
English Translation
Do you duly observe truth and sincerity, and freedom from anger and malice, and selfcontrol and penances, and the duties of benevolence and mercy.
सत्ये तिष्ठ रतो धर्मे हित्वा सर्वमनार्जवम् । देवतातिथिशेषेण यात्रां प्राणस्य संश्रय ॥
English Translation
Rest you on truth, firmly devoted to virtue, renouncing all sorts of insincerity and deceit. Do you support your life on the remnants of food after feeding gods and guests.
फेनपात्रोपमे देहे जीवे शकुनिवत्स्थिते । अनित्ये प्रियसंवासे कथं स्वपिषि पुत्रक ॥
English Translation
Your body is as fickle as the froth on the surface of water. The Individual Soul is sitting unattached in it as a bird on a tree. The companionship of all agreeable objects is transitory. Why then, O son, do you sleep in such forgetfulness?
अप्रमत्तेषु जाग्रत्सु नित्ययुक्तेषु शत्रुषु । अन्तरं लिप्समानेषु बालस्त्वं नावबुध्यसे ॥
English Translation
Your enemies are careful and awake and ever-ready (to assail you) and always watchful of their opportunity. Why are you so foolish as not to know this?
गण्यमानेषु वर्षेषु क्षीयमाणे तथायुषि । जीविते शिष्यमाणे च किमुत्थाय न धावसि ॥
English Translation
As the days are going one after another, and period of your life is being decreased. Indeed, when your life is being continually shortened, why do you not run to preceptors?
ऐहलौकिकमीहन्ते मांसशोणितवर्धनम् । पारलौकिककार्येषु प्रसुप्ता भृशनास्तिकाः ॥
English Translation
Only they who have no faith, set their hearts on worldly things that have the only effect of increasing flesh and blood. They do not care for the next world.
धर्माय येऽभ्यसूयन्ति बुद्धिमोहान्विता नराः । अपथा गच्छतां तेषामनुयातापि पीड्यते ॥
English Translation
Those men who are stupefied by erroneous understandings show a hatred for virtue. The man who follows those misguided persons that have taken to devious and wrong paths is afflicted equally with them.
ये तु तुष्टाः सुनियताः सत्यागमपरायणाः । धर्म्यं पन्थानमारूढास्तानुपास्स्व च पृच्छ च ॥
English Translation
They, however, who are contented, devoted to the scriptures, gifted with high souls, and possessed of great might, follow the path of virtue. Do you wait upon them with respect and seek instruction from them.
उपधार्य मतं तेषां वृद्धानां धर्मदर्शिनाम् । नियच्छ परया बुद्ध्या चित्तमुत्पथगामि वै ॥
English Translation
Do you act according to the instructions received from those wise men whose eyes are set upon virtue. With understanding purified by such instructions and made superior, do you then control your heart which is ever ready to deviate from the right course.
अद्यकालिकया बुद्ध्या दूरे श्व इति निर्भयाः । सर्वभक्षा न पश्यन्ति कर्मभूमिं विचेतसः ॥
English Translation
They who always think about the present, who fearlessly consider the tomorrow as something quite remote,-they who do not observe any restrictions about food-are really senseless wights who fail to understand that this world is only a field of probation.
धर्मनिःश्रेणिमास्थाय किंचित्किंचित्समारुह । कोशकारवदात्मानं वेष्टयन्नावबुध्यसे ॥
English Translation
Going to the flight of steps formed by Virtue. Do you ascend those steps one after another. At present you are like a worm which weaves its cocoon round itself and thereby closes up all means of escape.
नास्तिकं भिन्नमर्यादं कूलपातमिवास्थिरम् । वामतः कुरु विस्रब्धो नरं वेणुमिवोद्धतम् ॥
English Translation
Do you shun unhesitatingly, the atheist who transgresses all restraints, who is situated like a house by the side of a dreadful and encroaching current, and who seems to stand like a bamboo with its head erect in pride.
कामं क्रोधं च मृत्युं च पञ्चेन्द्रियजलां नदीम् । नावं धृतिमयीं कृत्वा जन्मदुर्गाणि संतर ॥
English Translation
Do you with the raft of Yoga cross the ocean of the world those whose five senses constitute its waters, having Desires and Anger and Death for its fierce monsters, and birth for its votex.
मृत्युनाभ्याहते लोके जरया परिपीडिते । अमोघासु पतन्तीषु धर्मयानेन संतर ॥
English Translation
Do you cross, with the raft of Virtue, the world that is affected by Death and afflicted by Decrepitude, and upon which the thunder-bolts formed by days and nights and falling incessantly.
तिष्ठन्तं च शयानं च मृत्युरन्वेषते यदा । निर्वृतिं लभसे कस्मादकस्मान्मृत्युनाशितः ॥
English Translation
When Death is seeking you at every moment, it is certain that Death may get you for his victim at any time. Whence will you get your rescue.
संचिन्वानकमेवैनं कामानामवितृप्तकम् । वृकीवोरणमासाद्य मृत्युरादाय गच्छति ॥
English Translation
Like the she-wolf snatching away a lamb, Death snatches away one who is still engaged in acquiring wealth and still unsatisfied in the enjoyment of pleasures.
क्रमशः संचितशिखो धर्मबुद्धिमयो महान् । अन्धकारे प्रवेष्टव्ये दीपो यत्नेन धार्यताम् ॥
English Translation
When you are destined to enter into the dark, do you hold up the blazing lamp or righteous understanding and whose flame has been sufficiently kept.
संपतन्देहजालानि कदाचिदिह मानुषे । ब्राह्मण्यं लभते जन्तुस्तत्पुत्र परिपालय ॥
English Translation
Getting by various forms one after another in the world of men, a creature acquires the status of Brahmanhood with great difficulty. You have acquired that status. Do you then, O son, try to maintain it.
ब्राह्मणस्य हि देहोऽयं न कामार्थाय जायते । इह क्लेशाय तपसे प्रेत्य त्वनुपमं सुखम् ॥
English Translation
A Brahmana has not been born for the gratification of senses. On the other hand, his body, for being subjected to mortification and penances in this world so that he may enjoy peerless happiness in the next world.
ब्राह्मण्यं बहुभिरवाप्यते तपोभि;स्तल्लब्ध्वा न परिपणेन हेडितव्यम् । स्वाध्याये तपसि दमे च नित्ययुक्तः; क्षेमार्थी कुशलपरः सदा यतस्व ॥
English Translation
The status of Brahmanhood is acquired by long-continued and austere penances. Having gained that status one should never waste his time in the gratification of his senses. Always engaged in penances and self-control and desirous of what is for your well being, do you live and act, devoted to peace and tranquillity.
अव्यक्तप्रकृतिरयं कलाशरीरः; सूक्ष्मात्मा क्षणत्रुटिशो निमेषरोमा । ऋत्वास्यः समबलशुक्लकृष्णनेत्रो; मासाङ्गो द्रवति वयोहयो नराणाम् ॥
English Translation
The life, of every man, is like a horse. The nature of that horse unmanifest. The elements from its body. Its nature is highly subtile. Kshanas, and Trutis, and Nimeshas are the hair on its body. The twilight's form its shoulderjoints. The lighted and the dark fortnights form its two equally powerful eyes. Months are its other limbs. That horse is running incessantly.
तं दृष्ट्वा प्रसृतमजस्रमुग्रवेगं; गच्छन्तं सततमिहाव्यपेक्षमाणम् । चक्षुस्ते यदि न परप्रणेतृनेयं; धर्मे ते भवतु मनः परं निशम्य ॥
English Translation
If your eyes be not blind, seeing then that horse continually moving forward in its invisible course, do you set your heart on virtue, after hearing what your preceptors have 10 say about the next world.
येऽमी तु प्रचलितधर्मकामवृत्ताः; क्रोशन्तः सततमनिष्टसंप्रयोगाः । क्लिश्यन्ते परिगतवेदनाशरीरा; बह्वीभिः सुभृशमधर्मवासनाभिः ॥
English Translation
They who deviate from virtue and who act carelessly, who always show malice towards others and take to evil ways, are obliged to take bodies in the regions of Yama and suffer various afflictions on account of their various sinful deeds.
राजा धर्मपरः सदा शुभगोप्ता; समीक्ष्य सुकृतिनां दधाति लोकान् । बहुविधमपि चरतः प्रदिशति; सुखमनुपगतं निरवद्यम् ॥
English Translation
That king who is given to virtue and who protects and punishes the good and the wicked with discrimination, acquires the regions of the men of righteous deeds. By doing various good acts, he acquires such happiness as is faultless and as is incapable of being attained to by going through even thousands of births.
श्वानो भीषणायोमुखानि वयांसि; वडगृध्रकुलपक्षिणां च संघाः । नरां कदने रुधिरपा गुरुवचन;नुदमुपरतं विशसन्ति ॥
English Translation
Dreadful dogs, crows or iron beaks, flocks of ravens and vultures and other birds, and blood-sucking worms, attacks the man who disobeys the commands of his parents and preceptors when he goes to hell after death.
मर्यादा नियताः स्वयंभुवा य इहेमाः; प्रभिनत्ति दशगुणा मनोनुगत्वात् । निवसति भृशमसुखं पितृविषय;विपिनमवगाह्य स पापः ॥
English Translation
That sinful wretch who, on account of his carelessness, transgresses the ten boundaries that have been fixed by the Self-create himself, is obliged to pass his time in great inisery in the wild deserts situated in the dominions of Death.
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