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Mahābhārata • Parva 14 (Aśvamedhikaparva) • Adhyāya 47

Aśvamedhikaparva Adhyāya 47

अश्वमेधिकपर्व • अध्यायः 47

Aśvamedhikaparva Adhyāya 47 of the classical Mahābhārata with 17 verses.

Total: 17 Verses • Citations: MBh 14.47.1–17 • 250 Lexicon Terms
संन्यासं तप इत्याहुर्वृद्धा निश्चितदर्शिनः । ब्राह्मणा ब्रह्मयोनिस्था ज्ञानं ब्रह्म परं विदुः ॥
English Translation
Brahman said The ancients who always used to speak truth, say that Renunciation is penance. Brahmanas, living in that which has Brahma for its origin understand Knowledge to be high Brahma.
अविदूरात्परं ब्रह्म वेदविद्याव्यपाश्रयम् । निर्द्वंद्वं निर्गुणं नित्यमचिन्त्यं गुह्यमुत्तमम् ॥
English Translation
Brahma is very far off, and its attainment depends upon a knowledge of the Vedas. It is free from all pairs of opposites, it is shorn of all qualities; it is eternal; it is gifted with unthinkable qualities; it is supreme.
ज्ञानेन तपसा चैव धीराः पश्यन्ति तत्पदम् । निर्णिक्ततमसः पूता व्युत्क्रान्तरजसोऽमलाः ॥
English Translation
It is by knowledge and penance that those gifted with wisdom see that which is the highest. Indeed, they who are of unsullied minds, who are purged of every sin, and who have transcended all passion and darkness (succeed in seeing it.)
तपसा क्षेममध्वानं गच्छन्ति परमैषिणः । संन्यासनिरता नित्यं ये ब्रह्मविदुषो जनाः ॥
English Translation
They who are always given to renunciation, and who are conversant with the Vedas, succeed in attaining to the supreme Lord who is at one with the path of happiness and peace, by the help of penance.
तपः प्रदीप इत्याहुराचारो धर्मसाधकः । ज्ञानं त्वेव परं विद्म संन्यासस्तप उत्तमम् ॥
English Translation
Penance, it has been said, is light. Conduct leads to piety. Knowledge is said to be the highest. Renunciation is the best penance.
यस्तु वेद निराबाधं ज्ञानं तत्त्वविनिश्चयात् । सर्वभूतस्थमात्मानं स सर्वगतिरिष्यते ॥
English Translation
He who understands self through accurate determination of all subjects, undisturbed, which is at one with Knowledge, and which lives in all principles, succeeds in going everywhere.
यो विद्वान्सहवासं च विवासं चैव पश्यति । तथैवैकत्वनानात्वे स दुःखात्परिमुच्यते ॥
English Translation
That learned man who sees association and dissociation, and unity in diversity, is freed from misery.
यो न कामयते किंचिन्न किंचिदवमन्यते । इहलोकस्थ एवैष ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते ॥
English Translation
He who never desires for anything, who despises nothing, becomes eligible, even when living in this world, for assimilation with Brahma.
प्रधानगुणतत्त्वज्ञः सर्वभूतविधानवित् । निर्ममो निरहंकारो मुच्यते नात्र संशयः ॥
English Translation
He who is conversant with the truths about qualities of Greatness, and understands the Pradhana as existing in all principles, who is free from mineness and egoism, forsooth, becomes liberated.
निर्द्वंद्वो निर्नमस्कारो निःस्वधाकार एव च । निर्गुणं नित्यमद्वंद्वं प्रशमेनैव गच्छति ॥
English Translation
Freed from all pairs of opposites, never bending his head in respect, abstaining from the rites requiring the utterance of Svaha, one should be free from mineness, and egoism. with purified soul, one should never seek to acquire what one has not and protect what one has.
हित्वा गुणमयं सर्वं कर्म जन्तुः शुभाशुभम् । उभे सत्यानृते हित्वा मुच्यते नात्र संशयः ॥
English Translation
Renouncing all action, good or bad, developed from qualities, and casting off both truth and falschood, a creature, forsooth, becomes liberated.
अव्यक्तबीजप्रभवो बुद्धिस्कन्धमयो महान् । महाहंकारविटप इन्द्रियान्तरकोटरः ॥
महाभूतविशाखश्च विशेषप्रतिशाखवान् । सदापर्णः सदापुष्पः शुभाशुभफलोदयः । आजीवः सर्वभूतानां ब्रह्मवृक्षः सनातनः ॥
एतच्छित्त्वा च भित्त्वा च ज्ञानेन परमासिना । हित्वा चामरतां प्राप्य जह्याद्वै मृत्युजन्मनी । निर्ममो निरहंकारो मुच्यते नात्र संशयः ॥
द्वावेतौ पक्षिणौ नित्यौ सखायौ चाप्यचेतनौ । एताभ्यां तु परो यस्य चेतनावानिति स्मृतः ॥
English Translation
These are the two birds, which are immutable, which are friends, and which should be known as unintelligent. That other who is different from these two is called the Intelligent.
अचेतनः सत्त्वसंघातयुक्तः; सत्त्वात्परं चेतयतेऽन्तरात्मा । स क्षेत्रज्ञः सत्त्वसंघातबुद्धि;र्गुणातिगो मुच्यते मृत्युपाशात् ॥
English Translation
When the inner self, which is shorn of knowledge of nature, which is (as it were) unintelligent, becomes conversant with that which is above nature, then, understanding the Kshetra, and gifted with an intelligence that is above all qualities and apprehends everything, becoming released from all sins.
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