Book 2 - Adhyaya 46

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

The different kinds of heavenly enjoyments, worldly pleasures, strength, nourishment and valour men acquire by the power of merit.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

All these happen to meritorious persons here or there, it is true, definitely true. The lord's statement cannot be otherwise.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

Virtue triumphs, not evil. Truth triumphs not false- hood. Forgiveness wins, not anger. Vi$nu conquers not the asuras.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

I have understood this truth that everything auspi¬ cious results from merit. When our merit is at the peak we are devoted to lord Krta.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

O Tkhya, men indulge in activities which result in meritorious or inauspicious fruits. O Kaiyapa, now listen how men derive traits from their particular activities.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

The preceptor guides the seeker, the king chastens the wicked, Yama regulates and rectifies the person of secret sins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

Having suffered and crossed tortures in hell they return to the world of mortals marked with the characteristic signs.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

If a person has been guilty of falsehood in speech, he becomes a stammerer, a teller of lies or dumb. The brahmin slayer is bom consumptive or leprous; the wine>addict becomes black-toothed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

The thief of gold becomes bad-nailed; the defiler of the preceptor's bed becomes ugly-skinned; he who associates with sinners is bom in a low family.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

He who takes meals at another's house without prior invitation is born a crow. A brahmin who performs a sacrifice for low castes is born a village-pig. He who performs many such sacrifices is born an ass.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

He who eats unscrupulously becomes a tiger in wilderness. He who scolds others without a cause becomes a cat; he who burns dry wood is born a glow-worm.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

He who imparts knowledge to the undeserving' be¬ comes a bull. He who offers stale food to a brahmin becomes a hunch-back. He who is malicious to others is born blind. He who steals a book is bom similarly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

He who sells the forbidden articles becomes deform¬ ed in the eye. He who censures others is born of defiled womb. He who deceives a woman becomes an owl.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

Imparts ktwwUdge to the unworthy —

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

The seller of forbidden fruits becomes indigent. He who keeps a i§udra woman as concubine becomes a bull. He who kicks the sacred fire becomes a cat. He who eats another's meat becomes a patient.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

He who indulges in sex at the prohibited time becomes a eunuch. A stealer of scents becomes a foul-smeller. A stealer of other goods becomes a swallow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

O lord of birds, these and other signs brought about by their actions are seen in men and others.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

Persons who commit such sins fall into hell and are re-born in different species of animals.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

After passing through these births men and women are re-born in human form when their merit and demerit are equalized.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

When men and women unite in sexual act and both the semen and the blood are mixed, the child born will be nourished with all the elements in proper proportion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

The statement would seem absurd but priesthood and idol-worship have often been the target of criticism from very early time. They have become the object of derison even in modem age, at the hands of social reformists among the Arya-samiya—a sect which is very popular in northern India now-a-days.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

O bird, all these take place in all castes according to their previous actions. In deityhood or manhood the acts of benevolence and indulgence recur due to their previous karman,

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

One who eats at the eleventh-day rite of a dead man is reborn [as such]; one who promises wealth to brahmins but does not give it becomes a jackal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

One who goes against the king becomes a tusked beast; a thief becomes a dung-eating boar; a seller of fruit becomes a sariva; the husband of a shudra woman becomes a bull.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

One who touches fire with his foot becomes a cat; one who eats others' flesh becomes diseased; one who goes to a menstruating woman becomes a eunuch; one who steals perfumes becomes foul-smelling.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

Whoever steals another's property, whatever it is, little or much, is born among animals; there is no doubt.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

These and other signs, O lord of birds, arising from their own deeds, are seen in men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

So one who has done evil, having experienced the hells in turn, is born, through the remainder of his karma, in the wombs described.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

Then for a hundred births among mortals and all creatures, O Kashyapa, he is born, without doubt, until good and bad are balanced.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

When through the union of woman and man the semen and blood are held together, he is born composed of the five elements, endowed with them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

Senses, mind, vital breaths, knowledge, lifespan, happiness, steadfastness, retention, impulse, sorrow and false ego,

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

effort, form and colour, attachment and aversion, existence and non-existence — all this belongs to that self, beginningless, which seeks a beginning.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

Then, for one bound by his own karma, the embryo grows, as I described to you earlier the marks of a creature.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

Thus the wheel turns in the fourfold host of beings; the arising and perishing of embodied beings takes place, Tarkshya.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

By one's own dharma one rises, and by adharma one goes down; this happens to all classes through straying from their own dharma, O bird.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

The acts of giving, enjoyment and the like seen in the state of gods and men, O Vainateya — all that is fruit born of karma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यश्चेदं शृणुयान्मर्त्यो यश्चापि परिकीर्तयेत्। विहाय यातनां घोरां धूतपापो दिवं ब्रजेत्॥

English

In the terrible, evil hell earned through forbidden action, desire and anger, he falls again, and there is no rescue for him.