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Mahābhārata • Parva 12 (Śāntiparva) • Adhyāya 318

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 318

शान्तिपर्व • अध्यायः 318

Śāntiparva Adhyāya 318 of the classical Mahābhārata with 64 verses.

Total: 64 Verses • Citations: MBh 12.318.1–64 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 2 of 3 (Verses 30 shown)
व्याधिभिर्भक्ष्यमाणानां त्यजतां विपुलं धनम् । वेदनां नापकर्षन्ति यतमानाश्चिकित्सकाः ॥
English Translation
If when men are attacked by diseases, they wish to spend even immense riches, physicians with their best efforts fail to lessen their sufferings.
ते चापि निपुणा वैद्याः कुशलाः संभृतौषधाः । व्याधिभिः परिकृष्यन्ते मृगा व्याधैरिवार्दिताः ॥
English Translation
Even physicians, who are well-skilled and expert in their science and well-equipt with excellent medicines, are themselves attacked by disease like animals assailed by hunters.
ते पिबन्तः कषायांश्च सर्पींषि विविधानि च । दृश्यन्ते जरया भग्ना नागा नागैरिवोत्तमैः ॥
English Translation
Even if men drink many astringents and various sorts of medicated ghee, they are seen to be broken by decrepitude like trees by strong elephants.
के वा भुवि चिकित्सन्ते रोगार्तान्मृगपक्षिणः । श्वापदानि दरिद्रांश्च प्रायो नार्ता भवन्ति ते ॥
English Translation
When animals and birds and beasts of prey and poor men are attacked by diseases, who treats them with medicines? Indeed, these are not seen to be ill.
घोरानपि दुराधर्षान्नृपतीनुग्रतेजसः । आक्रम्य रोग आदत्ते पशून्पशुपचो यथा ॥
English Translation
Like larger animals attacking smaller ones, diseases are seen to attack even dreadful kings of fierce energy and invincible prowess.
इति लोकमनाक्रन्दं मोहशोकपरिप्लुतम् । स्रोतसा सहसा क्षिप्तं ह्रियमाणं बलीयसा ॥
English Translation
All men, deprived of the power of even uttering cries of pain, and overwhelmed by error and grief, are seen to be carried away along the dreadful current into which they have been thrown.
न धनेन न राज्येन नोग्रेण तपसा तथा । स्वभावा व्यतिवर्तन्ते ये नियुक्ताः शरीरिषु ॥
English Translation
Embodied creatures, even when trying to conquer it with the help of wealth, of sovereign power, or of the austerest penances. men
न म्रियेरन्न जीर्येरन्सर्वे स्युः सर्वकामिकाः । नाप्रियं प्रतिपश्येयुरुत्थानस्य फलं प्रति ॥
English Translation
If all attempts men make were successful then men would never die, would never be subject to decrepitude, would never meet with any disagreeable thing, and lastly would have all their wishes fructified.
उपर्युपरि लोकस्य सर्वो भवितुमिच्छति । यतते च यथाशक्ति न च तद्वर्तते तथा ॥
English Translation
All desire to acquire gradual superiority of position. To satisfy this wish they try their very best. The result however, does not agree with their wish.
ऐश्वर्यमदमत्तांश्च मत्तान्मद्यमदेन च । अप्रमत्ताः शठाः क्रूरा विक्रान्ताः पर्युपासते ॥
English Translation
Even men who are perfectly careful, who are honest, and brave and endued with prowess, are seen to worship men intoxicated with the pride of wealth and with even alcoholic stimulants.
क्लेशाः प्रतिनिवर्तन्ते केषांचिदसमीक्षिताः । स्वं स्वं च पुनरन्येषां न किंचिदभिगम्यते ॥
English Translation
Some men are seen whose calamities vanish before even these are seen by them. Others there are who are seen to possess no riches but who are free from misery of every sort.
महच्च फलवैषम्यं दृश्यते कर्मसंधिषु । वहन्ति शिबिकामन्ये यान्त्यन्ये शिबिकागताः ॥
English Translation
A great disparity is seen about the fruits that wait upon conjunctions of acts. Some are seen to carry vehicles on their shoulders, while some are seen to ride on them.
सर्वेषामृद्धिकामानामन्ये रथपुरःसराः । मनुजाश्च शतस्त्रीकाः शतशो विधवाः स्त्रियः ॥
English Translation
All men desirous of riches and prosperity. A few only have cars dragged in their processions. Some there are who cannot get a single wife when their first married ones are dead; while others have hundreds of wives.
द्वंद्वारामेषु भूतेषु गच्छन्त्येकैकशो नराः । इदमन्यत्परं पश्य मात्र मोहं करिष्यसि ॥
English Translation
are Misery and happiness are the two things which exist side by side. Men have either misery or happiness. See this is a subject of wonder! Do you, however, allow yourself to be stupefied by error at such a sight.
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.
एतत्ते परमं गुह्यमाख्यातमृषिसत्तम । येन देवाः परित्यज्य मर्त्यलोकं दिवं गताः ॥
English Translation
O best of Rishis, I have now told you what is a great mystery! With the help of such instructions, the gods succeeded in leaving the Earth for becoming dwellers of heaven.
नारदस्य वचः श्रुत्वा शुकः परमबुद्धिमान् । संचिन्त्य मनसा धीरो निश्चयं नाध्यगच्छत ॥
English Translation
Hearing these words of Narada, Shuka, gifted with great intelligence and possessed of tranquillity of mind, reflected upon the drift of the instructions he received, but could not deterinine any thing.
पुत्रदारैर्महान्क्लेशो विद्याम्नाये महाञ्श्रमः । किं नु स्याच्छाश्वतं स्थानमल्पक्लेशं महोदयम् ॥
English Translation
He understood that one suffers great misery on account of children and wives; that one has to work hard for the acquisition of science and Vedic lore. He, therefore, asked himself, saying,-What is that situation which is eternal and which is free from all sorts of misery but in which there is great prosperity?
ततो मुहूर्तं संचिन्त्य निश्चितां गतिमात्मनः । परावरज्ञो धर्मस्य परां नैःश्रेयसीं गतिम् ॥
English Translation
Thinking for a moment upon the course ordained for him, Shuka, who was well acquainted with the beginning and the end of all duties, determined to attain to the highest end which is full of happiness.
कथं त्वहमसंक्लिष्टो गच्छेयं परमां गतिम् । नावर्तेयं यथा भूयो योनिसंसारसागरे ॥
English Translation
He questioned himself, saying,-How shall I, cutting off all attachments and becoming perfectly free, acquire that excellent end? How, indeed, shall I acquire that excellent situation whence there is no return into the ocean of various sorts of birth.
परं भावं हि काङ्क्षामि यत्र नावर्तते पुनः । सर्वसङ्गान्परित्यज्य निश्चितां मनसो गतिम् ॥
English Translation
I wish to come by that condition of existence whence there is no return! Renouncing all kinds of attachments, arrived at certainty by mental retrospection, I shall acquire that end.
तत्र यास्यामि यत्रात्मा शमं मेऽधिगमिष्यति । अक्षयश्चाव्ययश्चैव यत्र स्थास्यामि शाश्वतः ॥
English Translation
I shall acquire that situation in which your Soul will have tranquillity, and when I shall be able to live for good without being subject to decrepitude or change.
न तु योगमृते शक्या प्राप्तुं सा परमा गतिः । अवबन्धो हि मुक्तस्य कर्मभिर्नोपपद्यते ॥
English Translation
It is, however, certain that that high end cannot be acquired without the help of Yoga. One who has acquired the state of perfect knowledge and enlightenment never comes by low attachments through deeds.
तस्माद्योगं समास्थाय त्यक्त्वा गृहकलेवरम् । वायुभूतः प्रवेक्ष्यामि तेजोराशिं दिवाकरम् ॥
English Translation
I shall, therefore, have recourse to Yoga, and renouncing this body which is my present residence, I shall change myself into a wind and enter that mass of effulgence which is represented by the sin.
न ह्येष क्षयमाप्नोति सोमः सुरगणैर्यथा । कम्पितः पतते भूमिं पुनश्चैवाधिरोहति । क्षीयते हि सदा सोमः पुनश्चैवाभिपूर्यते ॥
English Translation
When Individual Soul enters that mass of effulgence, he no longer suffers like Soma who, with the gods, upon the exhaustion of merit, drops down on the Earth and having once more acquired sufficient merit returns to heaven.
रविस्तु संतापयति लोकान्रश्मिभिरुल्बणैः । सर्वतस्तेज आदत्ते नित्यमक्षयमण्डलः ॥
English Translation
The Sun warms all the worlds by means of his rays. His disc never suffers any diminution. Remaining unchanged, he drinks energy from all things. Hence, I wish to go into the Sun of blazing effulgence.
अतो मे रोचते गन्तुमादित्यं दीप्ततेजसम् । अत्र वत्स्यामि दुर्धर्षो निःसङ्गेनान्तरात्मना ॥
सूर्यस्य सदने चाहं निक्षिप्येदं कलेवरम् । ऋषिभिः सह यास्यामि सौरं तेजोऽतिदुःसहम् ॥
आपृच्छामि नगान्नागान्गिरीनुर्वीं दिशो दिवम् । देवदानवगन्धर्वान्पिशाचोरगराक्षसान् ॥
English Translation
I shall enter with the great Rishis the unbearable energy of the Sun, I declare to all creatures, these trees, these elephants, these mountains, the Earth herself, the several cardinal points, the sky, the gods, the Danavas, the Gandharvas, the Pishachas, Uragas, and the Rakshasas, that I shall enter all creatures in the world.
लोकेषु सर्वभूतानि प्रवेक्ष्यामि नसंशयः । पश्यन्तु योगवीर्यं मे सर्वे देवाः सहर्षिभिः ॥
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