Book 2 - Adhyaya 49

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

O ocean of mercy! I have heard that this world of creatures is born out of ignorance. Now, I wish to hear the infallible method of Final Release.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

O God, O deity of deities, O lover of refugees in this insignificant world filled with the filth of sorrows!

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

There are creatures staying in many bodies, being born and dying. There is no end to this process.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Hear, O bird, I shall tell you what you ask about Simply by hearing the same, you will get release from the world of mortals.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The creatures are his parts and parcels. Like sparks of fire being struck by the beginningless knowledge, they separate into different bodies, through beginninglcss actions.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

They are controlled by virtues and vices in the form of bliss and sorrow. Their bodies have different castes, age and enjoyment born of their different actions.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Then again in every birth, O bird, they obtain subtle bodies and after attaining mokfa they acquire indestruc¬ tible frames.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The departed souls enter into insentient objects, worms, birds, animals, men, deities but after release do not enter into any object or any body at all.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Passing through four types of bodies in order of their karman and leaving one body after the other a thousand times, taking birth in human form and acquiring knowledge due to good acts one obtains release.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

In the eightyfour lacs of bodies of creatures one does not acquire true knowledge anywhere unless one is born as man.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Here, after thousands of crores of births a creature obtains human form only sometime due to the aggregate of virtue.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Having obtained a rare human form he should endeavour for moka. If he does not endeavour for it, there can be no greater sinner in the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Born in the most beautiful human form he incurs the sin of slaying a brahmin if he neglects his self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

If alive, he may reap the result of his good actions. He may get a village, a field, a house or a wealth. But he may not get human body again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

A wise man finds out means to preserve his body. Even a leper does not wish to discard it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

If a person cannot protect himself from evil then who else will do the same?

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

If he cannot treat the disease here itself how shall he cure himself hereafter, at a place where' there is no medicine?

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

So far as sorrow does not come, calamities do not approach, organs do not defunct, one should practice virtue.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

So far as this body remains intact he should practice virtue. One is a perfect fool who digs a well only when the house is on fire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Even after seeing the distressed, the dead, the fallen and the aggrieved people do not ever fear having drunk the wine of infatuation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

When the soul comes and stays in the body like the foam of water, when the company of the beloved is but temporary, how can a person stay fearless?

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

He who does not know reality calls as useful what is useless, as permanent what is impermanent and as meaningful what is meaningless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Being infatuated by divine illusion he falters even seeing, misunderstands even hearing and misses sense even readily.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Even when the crocodiles in the form of death, disease, old age are drowning this world in the ocean of time, he does not realize the Truth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

It may be possible to wrap the wind, rend the ether, knot the waves but it is not possible to maintain perpetuity of the age.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

I have a son, wife, wealth and relations. Thus, while the goat of man thinks, the wolf of time takes him away by force.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Split with the needle of greed, soaked in_thc oil of passions, cooked in the fire of anger and envy, man is eaten up by death.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Death takes away even children, young people, old men and those in womb—such is this world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Not to speak of wife, mother, father, son and other relatives, the soul leaves even his own body and goes to the abode of Yama.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

This world has sorrow as the root. Whosoever possesses the same is sorrowful. Whosoever leaves it is happy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Man can get rid of fetters of iron and wood but not the fetters in the form of his son and wife.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

So far as a being makes relations deaf to heart, the cones of sorrow are being pegged in his heart.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Just as the fish tempted by flesh does not see the iron-cone, so also a creature, tempted by enjoyment does not anticipate Yama's torture.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The people going on the wrong path do not dis¬ tinguish between good and evil. These men deserve hell, O bird, who are engaged only in filling up their bellies.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Sleep, fear, sex and food are equal for all creatures. He who possesses knowledge is a man and he who is without knowledge is an animal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Foolish people are troubled by natural call in the morning, by hunger and thirst at midday and by sex and sleep at night.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

People love their bodies, wealth, wives, etc. Alas! being infatuated by ignorance they are born and they die.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Therefore, one should always shun company. If it is not possible, one should associate with the great.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Association with the good and discrimination are two clear eyes. Whosoever lacks them is a blind man who can go astray from the right path.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Men are busy with their own affairs devolved on them by their ancestral profession or by their paticular stage in life. They do not know about true religion. Being deceitful they perish.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Why should many preachers practising vows, but with their vision blinded by ignorance laboriously move here and there.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Can the ignorant fools get release by torturing their body? Can a serpent die simply by beating the hole wherein it dwells?

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The imposters who guise themselves wjth matted hair and deer-skins and pretend to be pious move about deceiving people.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

For him who takes delight in the pleasures of the world and pretends that he knows Brahman, both Karman and Brahman are far distant.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Alike at home and in forest, naked and shameless, the donkeys move here and there. Do they become unattached?

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

If men achieve release by anointing mud and ash will they be relea sed?

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Jackal, mouse and dear live in the forest and consume grass, leaves and water. Are they also ascetics?

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

From their birth to their death, frogs and fish stay in the river such as Ganga. Do they become Yogins?

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Doves, l§ilaharas and Catakas do not drink water from the earth. Are they Vratins?

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

People are content with their routine work. But that does not help them to reach the goal. It is the knowledge of truth or reality that effects release.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

O lord of birds, ignorant fools, fallen in the dark well of six darianas and bound by the noose of attachment, fail to realize the truth in the form of para-brahman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Floating on the surface of the ocean in the form of Veda-sastra and caught by the waves of six nigrahas, the bad logicians suffer miserably.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

A person well versed in the Vedas, Agamas and Puranas but ignorant of Reality is not distinct from a magician whose utterances resemble the caw'-caw sound of a crow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Those who are worried about the sources and objects of knowledge take recourse to l§astras which they study day and night but they are miles away from the goal of Ultimate Truth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Literary compositions arc decorated by the figures of speech, syntactical arrangement of words and by variety of meters. The fools who are worried cannot derive any solace from them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

A few proud people without traditional knowledge misinterpret the Vedas which they do not rightly understand.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

They study the Vedas and discuss. But they do not realize the Ultimate Reality just as a spoon does not know the taste of food.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The head carries the flowers, the nose knows the scent. The people study the Vedas. But very few persons understand the same.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Not knowing the Reality of the self, a fool is infatuated by the sastras. When the goat stands in the shed, the shepherd seeks for it in the well in vain.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

For the ignorant person the study of Sastras is useless as a mirror is useless for the blind. But for the wise the same works as the means of true knowledge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Iastras are the source of knowledge which one desires to attain. But that is not an easy affair. One may not achieve knowledge even in one thousand divine years.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Having studied the Vedas and realized their essence the wise man should leave all the fastras just as one desiring corn leaves the husk.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Just as one satiated with nectar has no use of food, no one who is in search of Reality has anything to do*with the iastras.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One cannot obtain release by reading the Vedas or the astras. Release comes from experience, not otherwise, O son ofVinata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The word of Guru alone can grant release. All knowledge is in vain. Among thousands of scriptures the word of Guru alone is vivifying.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The knowledge of the non-dual entity derived from the word of Guru can effect release. The practice of the ritual or the study of the crores of scriptures is quite in vain.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Some seek for the knowledge of non-dual brahman (i.e. brahman without Maya) and some for that of the Dual (brahman with Maya). But they do not realize reality devoid of dvaita and advaita.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Two words mine [mama) and not mine [na mama) signify bondage and release. By mine the person is bound and by not mine he is released.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

So far as actions thrive, so far as desire subsists, so far as organs are active, there can be little talk of realizing the Self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

So far as one takes pride in body, so far as affection for worldly objects is there, so far there is persistence in efforts, so far as desire to do is there.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Penance, vow, pilgrimage, muttering of mantras sacrifice, worship, talk of the Vedas and Sastras are meaningful only when one knows Reality.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Therefore, by all efforts and in all conditions, focus your attention on atmariy O bird, if you desire release.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Tortured by the threefold suffering one should take shelter in the shade of the tree of moksa which has blossoms of dharma and knowledge and fruits of heaven and release.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Therefore, one should derive knowledge of Reality from one's preceptor. Thus one is easily released from the bondage of one's actions.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Now, hear, I shall tell you the last step by which one can attain the final goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

When the hour of great departure arrives he should without fear cut off all attachments with the weapon of detachment.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The calm man should leave the house, start on pilgrimage and bathe in the holy waters. Then having prepared a seat as prescribed he should sit upon it with detachment.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

With a pure mind he should meditate upon the pure, three-syllabled Om signifying brahman. Without forgett¬ ing the brahma-bija one should conquer the breath and control the mind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

He should control the organs from the objects of senses with intellect as his companion. The mind drawn away by the actions should be possessed for the good by the intellect.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

"I am brahman the supreme shelter. I am brahman the highest stage," having thus concluded he should concen¬ trate his personal self on the universal self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Pronouncing Om the one-syllabled brahman and remembering me whosoever leaves his body obtains the highest state.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Where the hypocrites devoid of knowledge and self-control do not reach, the wise obtain that state.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The wise who are without ego and infatuation who have left attachment and vices, who contemplate on soul, whose desires have turned back, who are free from the effects of joy and sorrow, attain that imperishable state.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

He obtains release who bathes in the holy tirtha of mind whose pond is knowledge, water is truth and wich is devoid of filth of attachment and envy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Whosoever meditates on me with full devotion without attachment for any worldly object, who has imbibed complete awareness and whose mind is all pleasure.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

With a desire to die whosoever leaves his house and stays in a holy place where he breathes his last, can obtain release.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Ayodhya, Mathura, Maya, Kaii, Kahci, Avantika Puri and Dvaravati—these seven places of pilgrimage can grant release.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Thus I have told you, O Garuda, about the ways of release. Preaching the same with knowledge and control, one may obtain release.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Those who have realized self can get release. Those who resort to the ritual can go to heaven. Those w'ho commit sins go to hell. Others rotate on the wheel of birth and death.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Thus, having received the answer of his queries from the mouth of the lord, Garuda was delighted and he bowed to the lord of the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

"My doubts have been cleared, O lord, by your words"—so saying he took leave of Visnu and went to the hermitage of Kayapa.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One may assume body sooner or later after death. There is no inconsistency in this approach.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The Bhagavadgit& declares that after leaving the worne-out or diseased body the soul enters the new one immediately, as a man discarding worne-out clothes puts on new ones. But this is not true of each and every individual soul. Some souls wander in aerial bodies for indefinite time, some go to heaven, some to hell, staying in either place till their merits or sins are exhausted (kifie pur.ye martyaloikaTh vijanti). Some enter the womb very soon, to reap the fruits of their actions in human, animal or other form on the globe of this earth. «. '

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Gania repeated what he had heard from the lord. Marica was also delighted on hearing the words of Lord Visnu.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

O brahmanas, I have removed your doubts and told you the most wonderful Purana known as Garuda.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

A man who hears the same or narrates the same is blessed with pleasure here as well as hereafter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Whatsoever sorrows having been told about them who go to the city of Yama, whosoever hears about them gets release.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

After hearing about the results of actions described here, men may become averse to pleasures. The account is, therefore, meaningful for the listener.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

O ye that have controlled your organs, praise the lord from whom this voice has come out like a stream of nectar, by drinking (or hearing) even a drop or a handful of syllables of which a man may attain union with Paramatman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The sages were fully satisfied having drunk the Vaisnavi nectar of words coming out of the mouth of Suta, replete with the essence of scriptures.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

They praised the Suta who knew the essence of the iastras.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Thus having heard through the mouth of Suta the words of lord Vi§nu allaying the doubts of Garuda the sage Saunaka was fully satisfied.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The sages honoured Suta with liberal praise saying, *'0 Suta you deserve a very high praise." Then they bade him farewell, the sacrifice being over.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

This holy Garuda Purana destroys sins committed by the listeners. This should be heard therefore.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Having heard the Purana, gifts of bed, etc., should be given in charity or else it would not be fruitful.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

First of all, this Purana should be worshipped, 4hen the reciter with the fee in cash, clothes, ornaments and cows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

To obtain merit the reciter should be honoured devoutly with gifts of gold, corn, earth and other things.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The man who hears it or narrates it gets rid of fierce tortures in hell and shaking off his sins aside enters heaven where he enjoys the company of celestial nymphs.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Where hypocrites devoid of knowledge and detachment do not go — the wise go to that goal; I will tell you of them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Free from pride and delusion, having conquered the fault of attachment, ever devoted to the Self, their desires turned away, freed from the pairs called pleasure and pain, the undeluded go to that imperishable state.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Whoever bathes in the tirtha of the mind, whose lake is knowledge and whose water is truth, which removes the dirt of attachment and aversion, surely attains liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Whoever, resorting to mature detachment, worships me with undivided devotion, with complete vision and serene self, surely attains liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Whoever leaves his home and dwells at a tirtha, awaiting death, and dies in the fields of liberation, surely attains liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Ayodhya, Mathura, Maya, Kashi, Kanchi, Avantika and the city of Dvaravati — know these seven as givers of liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Thus I have told you, Tarkshya, the eternal dharma of liberation; hearing it, together with knowledge and detachment, one attains liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The knowers of truth go to liberation, righteous men to heaven, sinners to a bad fate; birds and others wander in the cycle of birth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Suta said: Having thus heard from the Lord's mouth the conclusive answers to his questions, Tarkshya, his body thrilling with joy, bowed to the Lord of the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

"My great doubt has been destroyed by the light of your words." Having said this and taken leave of Vishnu, he went to Kashyapa's hermitage.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One goes at once to another body, or goes after a delay; between these two, likewise, there is no contradiction for you.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

He told everything, dear one, just as he had heard it from the Lord; and Marichi's son too rejoiced on hearing the words of Lakshmi's lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Your doubt, O brahmins, has been removed by me; I have told the most wondrous Purana named after Suparna.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Tarkshya obtained it from Hari, and Bhrigu from Tarkshya; Vasishtha received it from Bhrigu, and then Vamadeva;

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

the sage Parashara obtained it, from him Vyasa, and from him I; and I have told you this supreme secret of Hari.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The mortal who hears this or recites it obtains happiness everywhere, in this world and the next.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The sorrow described here of one going to Samyamani — through the merit of hearing this, one is freed from it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Since hearing here of the ripening of karma and the like brings detachment to men, therefore it should indeed be heard.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

With senses conquered, worship this Krishna, lord of sages, from whom arose speech that is a stream of the essence of nectar; drinking even a drop of it, its syllables and forms, with the cup of the ears, one attains oneness with the Self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Vyasa said: Having drunk this Vaishnava nectar of words from Suta's lips, adorned with the meaning of all scriptures, the sages were satisfied.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

They praised one another and Suta, the seer of all aims, and the sages led by Shaunaka attained incomparable joy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Having heard through Suta's voice these words of Hari which dispelled the doubts of the lord of birds, the sage Shaunaka too took them deeply to heart.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Then the sages honoured Suta again and again with noble words, declaring, "Blessed are you here, Suta," and, when the sacrifice was over, dismissed him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The Garuda Purana is holy, purifying and destroys sin; it fulfils the wishes of those who hear it, and should always be heard.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

Having heard it, one should give all the gifts to the reciter — the bed and the rest described earlier; otherwise it will not bear fruit.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

One should first worship the Purana and then the reciter, respectfully, with clothes, ornaments, gifts of cows and fees.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

With gifts of food, gold and land in abundance one should devotedly honour the reciter to obtain great fruit of merit.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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

English

The mortal who hears this, or recites it as it is, escapes the terrible torments and, his sins shaken off, goes to heaven.