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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 3 of 4 (Verses 30 shown)
प्रजापतेः सलोकतां बृहस्पतेः शतक्रतोः । व्रजन्ति ते परां गतिं गृहस्थधर्मसेतुभिः ॥
English Translation
By walking along the high road formed by the duties of domesticity, men acquire happy ends by acquiring the region of Prajapati or Brihaspati or of him of a hundred sacrifices.
सहस्रशोऽप्यनेकशः प्रवक्तुमुत्सहामहे । अबुद्धिमोहनं पुनः प्रभुर्विना न यावकम् ॥
English Translation
I can give you thousands and thousands of instructions. Know, however, that the powerful cleanser keeps all foolish persons in the Dark.
गता द्विरष्टवर्षता ध्रुवोऽसि पञ्चविंशकः । कुरुष्व धर्मसंचयं वयो हि तेऽतिवर्तते ॥
English Translation
You have passed twenty-four years. You are now full twenty-five years of age. Your years are passing away. Begin now to husband virtue.
पुरा करोति सोऽन्तकः प्रमादगोमुखं दमम् । यथागृहीतमुत्थितं त्वरस्व धर्मपालने ॥
English Translation
The Destroyer that lives within error and carelessness will very soon deprive your senses of their respective powers. Do you, before that takes place, hasten to discharge your duties, relying on your body alone.
यदा त्वमेव पृष्ठतस्त्वमग्रतो गमिष्यसि । तथा गतिं गमिष्यतः किमात्मना परेण वा ॥
English Translation
When it is your duty to go along that road in which your self only shall be in front and yourself only in the rear, what need then have you with either your body or your wife and children?
यदेकपातिनां सतां भवत्यमुत्र गच्छताम् । भयेषु सांपरायिकं निधत्स्व तं महानिधिम् ॥
English Translation
When men have to go alone and without companions to the region of Yama, it is clear that in view of such a situation of terror, you should try to acquire that one only treasure.
सकूलमूलबान्धवं प्रभुर्हरत्यसङ्गवान् । न सन्ति यस्य वारकाः कुरुष्व धर्मसंनिधिम् ॥
English Translation
The powerful Yama, not caring for the sufferings of others, snatches away the friends and relatives of one's race by the very roots. There is no one who can resist him. Do you, therefore, seek to acquire virtue.
इदं निदर्शनं मया तवेह पुत्र संमतम् । स्वदर्शनानुमानतः प्रवर्णितं कुरुष्व तत् ॥
English Translation
I impart to you these lessons, O son, that are all at one with the scriptures I follow. Do you, therefore, seek to acquire virtue.
दधाति यः स्वकर्मणा धनानि यस्य कस्यचित् । अबुद्धिमोहजैर्गुणैः शतैक एव युज्यते ॥
English Translation
He who maintains his body by performing the duties laid down for his own order, and who makes gifts for acquiring whatever fruits may attach to such acts, becomes freed from the consequences begotten by ignorance and errror.
श्रुतं समर्थमस्तु ते प्रकुर्वतः शुभाः क्रियाः । तदेव तत्र दर्शनं कृतज्ञमर्थसंहितम् ॥
English Translation
The knowledge which a man of pious deeds acquires from Vedic sayings leads to omniscience. That omniscience is at on with the science of the highest object of human acquisition. Instructions, given to the grateful, become beneficial.
निबन्धनी रज्जुरेषा या ग्रामे वसतो रतिः । छित्त्वैनां सुकृतो यान्ति नैनां छिन्दन्ति दुष्कृतः ॥
English Translation
The desire that one feels for living in the midst of human dwellings is like a binding fetter. They that are of good deeds succeed in snapping that fetter and freeing themselves. Only men of wicked deeds do not succeed in breaking them.
किं ते धनेन किं बन्धुभिस्ते; किं ते पुत्रैः पुत्रक यो मरिष्यसि । आत्मानमन्विच्छ गुहां प्रविष्टं; पितामहास्ते क्व गताश्च सर्वे ॥
English Translation
What use have you of riches, O son, or of relatives, or of children, since you have to die? Do you engage in seeking for your soul which is hidden in a cave. Where have all your grandfathers gone?
श्वःकार्यमद्य कुर्वीत पूर्वाह्णे चापराह्णिकम् । को हि तद्वेद कस्याद्य मृत्युसेना निवेक्ष्यते ॥
English Translation
Do that today which you would keep for tomorrow. Do that in the forenoon which you would keep for the afternoon. Death does not wait for any one, to seen whether one has or has not done his task.
अनुगम्य श्मशानान्तं निवर्तन्तीह बान्धवाः । अग्नौ प्रक्षिप्य पुरुषं ज्ञातयः सुहृदस्तथा ॥
नास्तिकान्निरनुक्रोशान्नरान्पापमतौ स्थितान् । वामतः कुरु विश्रब्धं परं प्रेप्सुरतन्द्रितः ॥
English Translation
Following the body after one's death, one's relatives and kinsmen and friends return placing it on the funeral pyre. Do you unhesitatingly shun those who are men sceptics, who are destitute of mercy, and who are given to wicked ways, and do you try to seek, without listlessness or apathy, that which is for your greatest good.
एवमभ्याहते लोके कालेनोपनिपीडिते । सुमहद्धैर्यमालम्ब्य धर्मं सर्वात्मना कुरु ॥
English Translation
When, therefore, the world is thus assailed by Death, do you, with your whole heart, achieve virtue, helped all the while by unswerving patience.
अथेमं दर्शनोपायं सम्यग्यो वेत्ति मानवः । सम्यक्स धर्मं कृत्वेह परत्र सुखमेधते ॥
English Translation
That man who is well conversant with the means of acquiring Liberation and who duly satisfies the duties of his order, certainly acquires great happiness in the next world.
न देहभेदे मरणं विजानतां; न च प्रणाशः स्वनुपालिते पथि । धर्मं हि यो वर्धयते स पण्डितो; य एव धर्माच्च्यवते स मुह्यति ॥
English Translation
There is no destruction for you who do not recognise death in the attainment of a different body and who do not deviate from the path of the pious. He who increases the stock of virtue is truly wise. He, on the other hand, who deviates from virtue is said to be fool.
प्रयुक्तयोः कर्मपथि स्वकर्मणोः; फलं प्रयोक्ता लभते यथाविधि । निहीनकर्मा निरयं प्रपद्यते; त्रिविष्टपं गच्छति धर्मपारगः ॥
English Translation
One who is engaged to the accomplishment of good deeds, attains to heaven and other rewards as the fruits of those acts; but he who is addicted to wicked deeds has to sink in hell.
सोपानभूतं स्वर्गस्य मानुष्यं प्राप्य दुर्लभम् । तथात्मानं समादध्याद्भ्रश्येत न पुनर्यथा ॥
English Translation
Having acquired the status of humanity, so difficult of getting, that is the stepping stone to heaven, one should fix his soul on Brahma so that he may not fall away once more.
यस्य नोत्क्रामति मतिः स्वर्गमार्गानुसारिणी । तमाहुः पुण्यकर्माणमशोच्यं मित्रबान्धवैः ॥
English Translation
That man whose understanding, directed to the path of heaven, does not deviate therefrom, is considered by the wise as truly a man of virtue and when he dies his friends should indulge in grief.
यस्य नोपहता बुद्धिर्निश्चयेष्ववलम्बते । स्वर्गे कृतावकाशस्य तस्य नास्ति महद्भयम् ॥
English Translation
That man whose understanding is not firm and which is directed to Brahma and who has attained to heaven, becomes freed from a great fear.
तपोवनेषु ये जातास्तत्रैव निधनं गताः । तेषामल्पतरो धर्मः कामभोगमजानताम् ॥
English Translation
That who are born in asylums of ascetics and who die there, do not acquire much mnerit by abstaining all their life from enjoyments and the indulgence of desire.
यस्तु भोगान्परित्यज्य शरीरेण तपश्चरेत् । न तेन किंचिन्न प्राप्तं तन्मे बहुमतं फलम् ॥
English Translation
He, however, who though possessed of objects of enjoyment renounces them and practices penances, succeeds in acquiring everything. The fruits of the penances of such a inan are, I think, much greater.
मातापितृसहस्राणि पुत्रदारशतानि च । अनागतान्यतीतानि कस्य ते कस्य वा वयम् ॥
English Translation
Ever one had and will have in this world mothers and fathers and sons and wives, by hundreds and thousands. Who, however, were they and whose are we?
न तेषां भवता कार्यं न कार्यं तव तैरपि । स्वकृतैस्तानि यातानि भवांश्चैव गमिष्यति ॥
English Translation
They have nothing to do with you. You have nothing to do with them. All creatures take birth according to their pristine deeds. You also shall have to go hence determined by your own deeds.
इह लोके हि धनिनः परोऽपि स्वजनायते । स्वजनस्तु दरिद्राणां जीवतामेव नश्यति ॥
English Translation
It is seen in this world that the friends and followers of persons in affluence behaved towards them with devotion. The friends and followers, however, of the poor fall away during even the life-time of the poor.
संचिनोत्यशुभं कर्म कलत्रापेक्षया नरः । ततः क्लेशमवाप्नोति परत्रेह तथैव च ॥
English Translation
Man commits numerous evil deeds for the sake of his wife. From those evil deeds he suffers much distress both in this world and in the next.
पश्य त्वं छिद्रभूतं हि जीवलोकं स्वकर्मणा । तत्कुरुष्व तथा पुत्र कृत्स्नं यत्समुदाहृतम् ॥
English Translation
The wise man sees the world of life devastated by the deed performed by every living being. Do you, therefore, O son, act according to all the instructions I have delivered to you.
तदेतत्संप्रदृश्यैव कर्मभूमिं प्रविश्य ताम् । शुभान्याचरितव्यानि परलोकमभीप्सता ॥
English Translation
Seeing this world to be only a field of action, the man endued with true vision, should, from desire of happiness in the next world, do acts that are good.
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