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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 316

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 316

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 316

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 316 of the classical Mahābhārata with 60 verses.

Total: 60 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.316.1–60 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 2 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
पुत्रदारकुटुम्बेषु सक्ताः सीदन्ति जन्तवः । सरःपङ्कार्णवे मग्ना जीर्णा वनगजा इव ॥
English Translation
Those persons who become attached to sons and wives and relatives meet with destruction in the end, as wild elephants sunk in the mire of a lake are by and by weakened till overtaken by Death,
महाजालसमाकृष्टान्स्थले मत्स्यानिवोद्धृतान् । स्नेहजालसमाकृष्टान्पश्य जन्तून्सुदुःखितान् ॥
English Translation
See, all creatures that allow themselves to be dragged by the net of affection become subject to great grief as fishes on land, dragged thereto by means of large nets.
कुटुम्बं पुत्रदारं च शरीरं द्रव्यसंचयाः । पारक्यमध्रुवं सर्वं किं स्वं सुकृतदुष्कृतम् ॥
English Translation
Relatives, sons, wives, the body itself, and all properties amassed with care, unsubstantial and of no use in the next world. Only acts, good and bad, that one does, follow him to the other world.
यदा सर्वं परित्यज्य गन्तव्यमवशेन ते । अनर्थे किं प्रसक्तस्त्वं स्वमर्थं नानुतिष्ठसि ॥
English Translation
When it is certain that you shall have to go helplessly to the other world, leaving behind all these things, alas, why do you then allow yourself to be attached to such worthless unsubstantial things, without attending to what forms your real and durable wealth?
अविश्रान्तमनालम्बमपाथेयमदैशिकम् । तमःकान्तारमध्वानं कथमेको गमिष्यसि ॥
English Translation
The path which you shall have to pass through is without resting places of any sort. There is no support along that way which one may catch for maintaining oneself. The country are through which it passes is unknown and undiscovered. It is, again, covered with thick darkness. Alas, how will you go along that way without being supplied with the necessary expenses?
न हि त्वा प्रस्थितं कश्चित्पृष्ठतोऽनुगमिष्यति । सुकृतं दुष्कृतं च त्वा यास्यन्तमनुयास्यति ॥
English Translation
When you shall go along that road, nobody will follow you. Only your deeds, good and bad, will follow you when you shall leave his world for the next.
विद्या कर्म च शौर्यं च ज्ञानं च बहुविस्तरम् । अर्थार्थमनुसार्यन्ते सिद्धार्थस्तु विमुच्यते ॥
English Translation
One seeks the real object by means of learning, acts, purity and great knowledge. When that foremost of objects is acquired, one becomes liberated.
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.
रूपकूलां मनःस्रोतां स्पर्शद्वीपां रसावहाम् । गन्धपङ्कां शब्दजलां स्वर्गमार्गदुरावहाम् ॥
English Translation
The river of life is dreadful. Personal beauty or form forms is banks. The mind is the speed of its current. Touch forms its island. Taste forms its waters. That particular part of it which leads towards heaven is beset with great difficulties. Body is the boat by which one must cross that river. Forgiveness is the oar by which it is to be moved. Truth is the ballast that keeps that boat steady. The practice of virtue is the rope that is to be put to the mast for dragging that boat along difficult waters. Charity or gift forms the wind that moves the sails of that boat. Bifted with swift speed, it is with that boat that one must cross the river of life.
क्षमारित्रां सत्यमयीं धर्मस्थैर्यवटाकराम् । त्यागवाताध्वगां शीघ्रां बुद्धिनावा नदीं तरेत् ॥
त्यज धर्ममधर्मं च उभे सत्यानृते त्यज । उभे सत्यानृते त्यक्त्वा येन त्यजसि तं त्यज ॥
English Translation
Renounce both virtue and vice, and truth and falsehood. Having renounced truth and falsehood, do you cast off that by which these are to be shaken off.
त्यज धर्ममसंकल्पादधर्मं चाप्यहिंसया । उभे सत्यानृते बुद्ध्या बुद्धिं परमनिश्चयात् ॥
English Translation
By casting off all purpose, do you renounce virtue; do you cast off sin also by renouncing all desire. With the help of the understanding, do you renounce truth and falsehood; and, at last, do you renounce the understanding itself by knowledge of the highest subject.
अस्थिस्थूणं स्नायुयुतं मांसशोणितलेपनम् । चर्मावनद्धं दुर्गन्धि पूर्णं मूत्रपुरीषयोः ॥
English Translation
Do you renounce this body having bones for its pillars; sinews for its binding strings and cords; flesh and blood for its outer plaster; the skin for its outer case; full of urine and faeces and, therefore, sending forth a bad smell; exposed to the attacks of decrepitude and sorrow; forming the seat of disease and weakened by pain; predominated by the quality of Darkness; not permanent or durable, and which serves as the habitation of the indwelling creature.
जराशोकसमाविष्टं रोगायतनमातुरम् । रजस्वलमनित्यं च भूतावासं समुत्सृज ॥
इदं विश्वं जगत्सर्वमजगच्चापि यद्भवेत् । महाभूतात्मकं सर्वं महद्यत्परमाणु यत् ॥
English Translation
This entire universe of matier, and that which is called Mahat or Buddhi, are formed of great elements. That which is called Mahat is due to the action of the Supreme.
इन्द्रियाणि च पञ्चैव तमः सत्त्वं रजस्तथा । इत्येष सप्तदशको राशिरव्यक्तसंज्ञकः ॥
English Translation
The five senses, the three qualities of Tamas, Sattva, and Rajas,-these make up seventeen.
सर्वैरिहेन्द्रियार्थैश्च व्यक्ताव्यक्तैर्हि संहितः । पञ्चविंशक इत्येष व्यक्ताव्यक्तमयो गुणः ॥
English Translation
These seventeen, which are known by the name of the Unmanifest, with all those that are called Manifest, viz., the five objects of the five senses, with Consciousness and the Understanding, constitute the well-known twenty-four.
एतैः सर्वैः समायुक्तः पुमानित्यभिधीयते । त्रिवर्गोऽत्र सुखं दुःखं जीवितं मरणं तथा ॥
English Translation
When endued with those twenty-four possessions, one comes to be called by the name of Jiva or Individual Soul. He who knows the three-fold objects as also happiness and sorrow and life and death, truly and in all their details, is said to know growth and decay All objects of knowledge, should be known by and by.
य इदं वेद तत्त्वेन स वेद प्रभवाप्ययौ । पाराशर्येह बोद्धव्यं ज्ञानानां यच्च किंचन ॥
English Translation
When endued with those twenty-four possessions, one comes to be called by the name of Jiva or Individual Soul. He who knows the three-fold objects as also happiness and sorrow and life and death, truly and in all their details, is said to know growth and decay All objects of knowledge, should be known by and by.
इन्द्रियैर्गृह्यते यद्यत्तत्तद्व्यक्तमिति स्थितिः । अव्यक्तमिति विज्ञेयं लिङ्गग्राह्यमतीन्द्रियम् ॥
English Translation
All objects that are perceived by the senses are called Manifest. Whatever objects are above the senses and are apprehended by means only of their marks are said to be Unimanifest.
इन्द्रियैर्नियतैर्देही धाराभिरिव तर्प्यते । लोके विततमात्मानं लोकं चात्मनि पश्यति ॥
English Translation
By controlling the senses, one acquires great gratification, like a thirsty and parched traveller at a sweet shower of rain. Having restrained the senses one sees one's soul spread out for embracing all objects, and all objects in one's soul.
परावरदृशः शक्तिर्ज्ञानवेलां न पश्यति । पश्यतः सर्वभूतानि सर्वावस्थासु सर्वदा ॥
English Translation
Having its roots in knowledge, the power is never lost of the man who (thus) sees the Supreme in his soul,-of the man, who always sees all creatures in all conditions.
ब्रह्मभूतस्य संयोगो नाशुभेनोपपद्यते । ज्ञानेन विविधान्क्लेशानतिवृत्तस्य मोहजान् । लोके बुद्धिप्रकाशेन लोकमार्गो न रिष्यते ॥
English Translation
He who, by the help of knowledge, gets over all sorts of pain begotten of mistake stupefaction, never catches any evil by coming into contact with all creatures.
अनादिनिधनं जन्तुमात्मनि स्थितमव्ययम् । अकर्तारममूर्तं च भगवानाह तीर्थवित् ॥
यो जन्तुः स्वकृतैस्तैस्तैः कर्मभिर्नित्यदुःखितः । स दुःखप्रतिघातार्थं हन्ति जन्तूननेकधा ॥
ततः कर्म समादत्ते पुनरन्यन्नवं बहु । तप्यतेऽथ पुनस्तेन भुक्त्वापथ्यमिवातुरः ॥
अजस्रमेव मोहार्तो दुःखेषु सुखसंज्ञितः । बध्यते मथ्यते चैव कर्मभिर्मन्थवत्सदा ॥
ततो निवृत्तो बन्धात्स्वात्कर्मणामुदयादिह । परिभ्रमति संसारं चक्रवद्बहुवेदनः ॥
स त्वं निवृत्तबन्धस्तु निवृत्तश्चापि कर्मतः । सर्ववित्सर्वजित्सिद्धो भव भावविवर्जितः ॥
संयमेन नवं बन्धं निवर्त्य तपसो बलात् । संप्राप्ता बहवः सिद्धिमप्यबाधां सुखोदयाम् ॥
English Translation
Possessed of oinniscience and the master of all things, may you be successful, and do you become freed from all existent objects. Through subjugation of their senses and the power of their penances, many persons, having destroyed the fetters of action, acquired great success and uninterrupted happiness.
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