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Mahābhārata • Parva 14 (Aśvamedhikaparva) • Adhyāya 50

Aśvamedhikaparva Adhyāya 50

अश्वमेधिकपर्व • अध्यायः 50

Aśvamedhikaparva Adhyāya 50 of the classical Mahābhārata with 52 verses.

Total: 52 Verses • Citations: MBh 14.50.1–52 • 250 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
भूतानामथ पञ्चानां यथैषामीश्वरं मनः । नियमे च विसर्गे च भूतात्मा मन एव च ॥
English Translation
Since the mind is the ruler of these five elements, for controlling and bringing them forth, the mind, therefore, is the soul of the elements.
अधिष्ठाता मनो नित्यं भूतानां महतां तथा । बुद्धिरैश्वर्यमाचष्टे क्षेत्रज्ञः सर्व उच्यते ॥
English Translation
The mind always presides over the great elements. The understanding proclaims power, and is called the Soul.
इन्द्रियाणि मनो युङ्क्ते सदश्वानिव सारथिः । इन्द्रियाणि मनो बुद्धिं क्षेत्रज्ञो युञ्जते सदा ॥
English Translation
The mind yokes the senses, as a charioteer yokes good horses. The senses, the mind, and the understanding are always joined to the Soul.
महाभूतसमायुक्तं बुद्धिसंयमनं रथम् । तमारुह्य स भूतात्मा समन्तात्परिधावति ॥
English Translation
The individual soul, mounting the chariot to which big horses are yoked and which has the understanding for the reins, drives about on all sides.
इन्द्रियग्रामसंयुक्तो मनःसारथिरेव च । बुद्धिसंयमनो नित्यं महान्ब्रह्ममयो रथः ॥
English Translation
With all the senses attached to it (for steeds), with the mind for the charioteer, and the understanding for the eternal reins, exists thc great Brahma car.
एवं यो वेत्ति विद्वान्वै सदा ब्रह्ममयं रथम् । स धीरः सर्वलोकेषु न मोहमधिगच्छति ॥
English Translation
Indeed, that man gifted with learning and wisdom who always understands the Brahmacharin this way, is never possessed by delusion in the midst of all entities.
अव्यक्तादि विशेषान्तं त्रसस्थावरसंकुलम् । चन्द्रसूर्यप्रभालोकं ग्रहनक्षत्रमण्डितम् ॥
नदीपर्वतजालैश्च सर्वतः परिभूषितम् । विविधाभिस्तथाद्भिश्च सततं समलंकृतम् ॥
आजीवः सर्वभूतानां सर्वप्राणभृतां गतिः । एतद्ब्रह्मवनं नित्यं यस्मिंश्चरति क्षेत्रवित् ॥
लोकेऽस्मिन्यानि भूतानि स्थावराणि चराणि च । तान्येवाग्रे प्रलीयन्ते पश्चाद्भूतकृता गुणाः । गुणेभ्यः पञ्चभूतानि एष भूतसमुच्छ्रयः ॥
English Translation
Whatever exist in this world, mobile and immobile, are the very first to be dissolved away. After this (are dissolved) those qualities which compose all entities.
देवा मनुष्या गन्धर्वाः पिशाचासुरराक्षसाः । सर्वे स्वभावतः सृष्टा न क्रियाभ्यो न कारणात् ॥
English Translation
After the qualities (are dissolved) the five elements. Such is the gradation of entities. Celestials, men, Gandharvas, Pishachas, Asuras, (and) Rakshasa, have all originated from Nature, and not from actions, nor from a cause. The Brahmanas, who are creators of the universe are born here again and again.
एते विश्वकृतो विप्रा जायन्ते ह पुनः पुनः । तेभ्यः प्रसूतास्तेष्वेव महाभूतेषु पञ्चसु । प्रलीयन्ते यथाकालमूर्मयः सागरे यथा ॥
English Translation
All that originates from them dissolves, when the time comes, in those very five great elements like billows in the ocean.
विश्वसृग्भ्यस्तु भूतेभ्यो महाभूतानि गच्छति । भूतेभ्यश्चापि पञ्चभ्यो मुक्तो गच्छेत्प्रजापतिम् ॥
English Translation
All the great elements are beyond those elements which form the universe. He who is released from those five clements goes to the highest goal.
प्रजापतिरिदं सर्वं तपसैवासृजत्प्रभुः । तथैव वेदानृषयस्तपसा प्रतिपेदिरे ॥
English Translation
The powerful Prajapati created all this by the mind only. Similarly Rishis attained to the status of celestials by the help of penance.
तपसश्चानुपूर्व्येण फलमूलाशिनस्तथा । त्रैलोक्यं तपसा सिद्धाः पश्यन्तीह समाहिताः ॥
English Translation
Likewise, those who have acquired perfection, who capable of the concentration of Yoga, and who live on fruits and roots, likewise perceive the triple world by penance.
ओषधान्यगदादीनी नानाविद्याश्च सर्वशः । तपसैव प्रसिध्यन्ति तपोमूलं हि साधनम् ॥
English Translation
Medicines and herbs and all the various sciences are acquired by means of penance alone, for all acquisition has penance for its were root.
यद्दुरापं दुराम्नायं दुराधर्षं दुरन्वयम् । तत्सर्वं तपसा साध्यं तपो हि दुरतिक्रमम् ॥
English Translation
Whatever is difficult of acquisition, difficult to learn, difficult to defeat, difficult to pass through, can all be acquired by penance, for penance is irresistible.
सुरापो ब्रह्महा स्तेयी भ्रूणहा गुरुतल्पगः । तपसैव सुतप्तेन मुच्यन्ते किल्बिषात्ततः ॥
English Translation
One who drinks alcoholic liquors, one who kills a Brahmana, one who steals, one who destroys a foe us, one who violates one's preceptor's bed, becomes cleansed of such sin by penance well performed.
मनुष्याः पितरो देवाः पशवो मृगपक्षिणः । यानि चान्यानि भूतानि त्रसानि स्थावराणि च ॥
English Translation
Human beings, departed manes, deities, (sacrificial) animal, beasts and birds, and all other creatures mobile and immobile, by always devoting themselves to penances, become successful by penance along. Similarly the celestials gifted with great powers of illusion, have attained to the celestial region.
तपःपरायणा नित्यं सिध्यन्ते तपसा सदा । तथैव तपसा देवा महाभागा दिवं गताः ॥
English Translation
Human beings, departed manes, deities, (sacrificial) animal, beasts and birds, and all other creatures mobile and immobile, by always devoting themselves to penances, become successful by penance along. Similarly the celestials gifted with great powers of illusion, have attained to the celestial region.
आशीर्युक्तानि कर्माणि कुर्वते ये त्वतन्द्रिताः । अहंकारसमायुक्तास्ते सकाशे प्रजापतेः ॥
English Translation
Those who without idleness perforın deeds with expectation, being full of egoism, approach the presence of Prajapati.
ध्यानयोगेन शुद्धेन निर्ममा निरहंकृताः । प्राप्नुवन्ति महात्मानो महान्तं लोकमुत्तमम् ॥
English Translation
Those great ones, however, who are devoid of mineness and freed from egoism through the pure contemplation of Yoga, acquire the great and highest regions.
ध्यानयोगादुपागम्य प्रसन्नमतयः सदा । सुखोपचयमव्यक्तं प्रविशन्त्यात्मवत्तया ॥
English Translation
Those who understand best the self, having acquired Yoga contemplation and having their minds always cheerful, into the unmanifest accumulation of happiness.
ध्यानयोगादुपागम्य निर्ममा निरहंकृताः । अव्यक्तं प्रविशन्तीह महान्तं लोकमुत्तमम् ॥
English Translation
Those great ones, however, who are devoid of mineness and freed from egoism through the pure contemplation of Yoga, acquire the great and highest regions.
अव्यक्तादेव संभूतः समयज्ञो गतः पुनः । तमोरजोभ्यां निर्मुक्तः सत्त्वमास्थाय केवलम् ॥
विमुक्तः सर्वपापेभ्यः सर्वं त्यजति निष्कलः । क्षेत्रज्ञ इति तं विद्याद्यस्तं वेद स वेदवित् ॥
English Translation
Born from that same unmanifest (principle) and attaining to the same once more, frecd from the qualities of Darkness and Ignorance and adhering to only the quality of Goodness, one becomes freed from every sin and creates all things. Such a one should be known to be Kshetrajna in perfection. He who knows him knows the Veda. enter to
चित्तं चित्तादुपागम्य मुनिरासीत संयतः । यच्चित्तस्तन्मना भूत्वा गुह्यमेतत्सनातनम् ॥
English Translation
Attaining pure knowledge from (restraining) the mind, the ascetic should sit self-controlled. One necessarily becomes that on which one's mind is set. This is an eternal mystery.
अव्यक्तादि विशेषान्तमविद्यालक्षणं स्मृतम् । निबोधत यथा हीदं गुणैर्लक्षणमित्युत ॥
English Translation
That which has the unmanifest for its beginning and gross qualities for its end, has been said to have Ne-science for its mark. But do you understand that whose nature is shorn of qualities.
द्व्यक्षरस्तु भवेन्मृत्युस्त्र्यक्षरं ब्रह्म शाश्वतम् । ममेति च भवेन्मृत्युर्न ममेति च शाश्वतम् ॥
English Translation
Of two syllables is Mrityu (death); of three syllable is the eternal Brahma Mineness is death, and the opposite of mineness is the eternal.
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