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Mahābhārata • Parva 14 (Aśvamedhikaparva) • Adhyāya 33

Aśvamedhikaparva Adhyāya 33

अश्वमेधिकपर्व • अध्यायः 33

Aśvamedhikaparva Adhyāya 33 of the classical Mahābhārata with 9 verses.

Total: 9 Verses • Citations: MBh 14.33.1–9 • 250 Lexicon Terms
नाहं तथा भीरु चरामि लोके; तथा त्वं मां तर्कयसे स्वबुद्ध्या । विप्रोऽस्मि मुक्तोऽस्मि वनेचरोऽस्मि; गृहस्थधर्मा ब्रह्मचारी तथास्मि ॥
English Translation
The Brahmana said I do not, O timid one, move in this world in the manner which you, according to your own understanding, censure. I am a Brahmana endued with Vedic knowledge. I am liberated. I am a hermit, I follow the duties of a houscholder. I observe vows.
नाहमस्मि यथा मां त्वं पश्यसे चक्षुषा शुभे । मया व्याप्तमिदं सर्वं यत्किंचिज्जगतीगतम् ॥
English Translation
I am not what you see me in good and bad deeds. I pervaded everything that exists in this universe.
ये केचिज्जन्तवो लोके जङ्गमाः स्थावराश्च ह । तेषां मामन्तकं विद्धि दारूणामिव पावकम् ॥
English Translation
I am the destroyer of all crcatures that exist in the world, mobile or immobile, as fire destroys all kinds of wood.
राज्यं पृथिव्यां सर्वस्यामथ वापि त्रिविष्टपे । तथा बुद्धिरियं वेत्ति बुद्धिरेव धनं मम ॥
English Translation
Sovereignty over the whole Earth or over the Heaven can be compared with this knowledge of my oneness with the universe). This knowledge is my wcalth.
एकः पन्था ब्राह्मणानां येन गच्छन्ति तद्विदः । गृहेषु वनवासेषु गुरुवासेषु भिक्षुषु । लिङ्गैर्बहुभिरव्यग्रैरेका बुद्धिरुपास्यते ॥
English Translation
This is the one path for Brahmanas by which they who understand it proceed domesticity, or abodes in the forest, or residence with preceptors, among mendicants.
नानालिङ्गाश्रमस्थानां येषां बुद्धिः शमात्मिका । ते भावमेकमायान्ति सरितः सागरं यथा ॥
English Translation
With numerous unconfused symbols, only one knowledge is adored. Those who, whatever the symbols and modes of life which they follow, have acquired an understanding having tranquillity for its essence, attain to that one entity as numerous rivers all mecting the Ocean.
बुद्ध्यायं गम्यते मार्गः शरीरेण न गम्यते । आद्यन्तवन्ति कर्माणि शरीरं कर्मबन्धनम् ॥
English Translation
This path can be trodden with the help of the understanding and not of the body. Actions have both beginning and end, and the body has actions for its fetters.
तस्मात्ते सुभगे नास्ति परलोककृतं भयम् । मद्भावभावनिरता ममैवात्मानमेष्यसि ॥
English Translation
Hence, O blessed lady, you need have no fear about the world to come. With your heart intent upon the real object, it is my soul into which you will come!
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