Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवयोनिको प्राप्त होता है

English

calls him. To this day, the rule is rigidly observed in all Tols throughout India. It should be added to the credit of those engaged in teaching that they very seldom neglect their pupils. The story is authentic of the grandfather of the great Baneswar Vidyalankar of Nuddea, himself as great a professor as Banes war, of continuing to teach his pupils in the outer apartments even after receiving intelligence of his son's death within the inner apartments of the family dwelling. The fact is, he was utterly absorbed in his work, that when his good lady, moved by his apparent heartlessness, came out to tax him he answered her, in thorough absence of mind, saying, 'Well, do not be disturbed. If I do not weep for my son, I will do so for that grandchild in your arms.' The pupils at last recalled him to the realities of the hour.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गुणतत्त्वान्यथैतानि निर्गुणोडन्यस्तथा भवेत् विद्यतेक्षरभावत्वादपरं परमव्ययम्

English

[Yudhishthira said:] "How does this self renounce, and how is one who has renounced his self; and what is the highest of liberation: tell me that, grandsire."

हिन्दी अर्थ

कारणं तु प्रवक्ष्यामि याथातथ्यं तु ज्ञानतः

English

[Bhishma said:] "Here too they cite this ancient tale, the dialogue of Janaka and Sulabha, Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उसी प्रकार मैं भी आजतक यहाँ इस प्राकृत शरीरका ही अनुसरण करता रहा मत्स्यो यथोदकज्ञानादनुवर्तितवानहम्

English

There was once a king whose fruit was renunciation, Janaka of Mithila, known as Dharmadhvaja.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अतीत होकर मैं निरामय परमात्माकी शरण लूँगा

English

Versed in the Veda, the shastra of liberation and his own shastra, he ruled this earth with his senses collected.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अव्यक्तबोधनाच्चैव बुध्यमानं वदन्त्यपि वह अव्यक्त प्रकृतिको जानता है, इसलिये ऋषि-मुनि उसे “बुध्यमान' कहते हैं

English

Hearing of his good conduct, the wise who knew the Veda, lord of men, longed for it; other men in the worlds too.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देता है और उसमें नित्य शुद्ध-बुद्ध ब्रह्मके लक्षण प्रकट हो जाते हैं

English

Then in that age of dharma, practising the dharma of yoga, a lone mendicant woman named Sulabha roamed the earth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपदेश देना और अवश्य देना चाहिए--यह भी सुन लो क्रियावते च क्षमिणे हिताय

English

She, wandering this world, was told of the lord of Mithila here and there in liberation by those with three staffs.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पश्चादनुमतस्तेन पप्रच्छ वसुमानिदम्

English

Hearing a very subtle tale, doubtful whether true or not, she resolved to see Janaka.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पज्चविंशतिमो योयं ज्ञानादेव प्रवर्तते उसकी प्राप्ति ज्ञानसे ही होती है

English

owes to one's deceased ancestors. Here Bhrigu says that by that act one gratifies the Creator. The idea is the same that forms the root of the command laid on the Jews,— Go and multiply.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चिथड़े पहनकर रहता है

English

In the blink of an eye, fast as a light missile in flight, the fair-browed, lotus-eyed woman went to the city of the Videhas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवमेषो5सकृत्पूर्व क्रीडार्थमभिमन्यते एवमेतां विकुर्वाण: सर्गप्रलयधर्मिणीम्

English

Reaching lovely Mithila, crowded with prosperous people, under the pretext of begging alms she saw the lord of Mithila.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इन सबको प्राकृत समझो

English

The king, seeing her great delicacy and form, wondered, "Who is she, whose, or whence?" and was astonished.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विमलस्य विशुद्धस्य शुद्धाशुद्धनिषेवणात् अबुद्धसेवनाच्चापि बुद्धोप्यबुद्धतां ब्रजेत्

English

Then he made her welcome, offered her an excellent seat, honoured her with water for her feet, and satisfied her with excellent food.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नहीं समझता, उसका वह याद रखना व्यर्थ है

English

Then, having eaten and pleased, the mendicant spurred the king, surrounded by ministers, among the knowers of all commentaries.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्मादेवं विजानन्ति ये जना गुणदर्शिन: तदा स गुणहान्यै त॑ परमेवानुपश्यति

English

Sulabha, doubtful whether he was freed in his dharmas, joined by goodness, a knower of yoga, entered his sattva with sattva, lord of the earth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राणायामस्तु सगुणो निर्गुणो मनसस्तथा

English

Joining the rays of her eyes with the rays of his eyes, she bound him as he was about to speak with the bonds of yoga.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करता हूँ; यह विचारप्रधान दर्शन है तस्मान्महत् समुत्पन्नं द्वितीयं राजसत्तम

English

Janaka the king, smiling, distinguishing her state, the best of kings received her state with his own.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सांख्या: सह प्रकृत्या तु निस्तत्त्व: पडचविंशक:

English

Let this dialogue be heard, in one place: the freed from parasol and the like, and the freed woman with the triple staff.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ते व्यक्त प्रतिपद्यन्ते पुन: पुनररिंदम

English

"Blessed lady, where has this conduct been done, and where will you go? Whose are you, or whence?" the lord of the earth asked her.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नहीं होती। ऐसे लोगोंको बारंबार शरीर धारण करना पड़ता है व्यक्ती भूता भविष्यन्ति व्यक्तस्य वशवर्तिन:

English

"In learning, in age, in birth, good being is not found; in these matters I should be told the answer at this meeting.

हिन्दी अर्थ

य एनमभिजानन्ति न भयं तेषु विद्यते

English

Know me wholly freed in the particulars such as the parasol; I wish to consult you; you ought not to be disregarded, for you are esteemed by me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्याविद्ये व्विदानीं मे त्वं निबोधानुपूर्वश: सर्गप्रलयनिर्मुक्तां विद्यां वै पडचविंशक:

English

Hear also about him by whom I obtained this special knowledge long ago, of whom there is no other speaker on liberation:

हिन्दी अर्थ

है, उसीको विद्या कहते हैं

English

I am the highly esteemed pupil of the aged, great-souled mendicant Panchashikha, of the line of Parashara.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथोक्तमृषिभिस्तात सांख्यस्याभिनिदर्शनम् बुद्धीन्द्रियाणां च तथा विशेषा इति नः श्रुतम्

English

In Sankhya knowledge and yoga, lord of the earth, and in the threefold rule of the dharma of liberation I have gone the way and cut my doubts.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कर्मन्द्रियोंसे ज्ञानेन्द्रियाँ श्रेष्ठ हैं और ज्ञानेन्द्रियोंकी विद्या पज्चमहाभूत हैं

English

Roaming here by the path seen in scripture, he once lived happily with me for the four months of the rains."

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनस: पज्च भूतानि विद्या इत्यभिचक्षते अहड्कारस्य च तथा बुद्धिर्विद्या नरेश्वर

English

"By him, the chief of Sankhyas, who saw the truth well, I was taught threefold liberation, and I did not stray from the kingdom.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्या ज्ञेया नरश्रेष्ठ विधिश्व॒ परम: स्मृत:

English

I, with that whole threefold livelihood joined with liberation, roam alone, free of attachment, standing in the supreme state.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्या जानने योग्य है। इसीको ज्ञानकी परम विधि कहते हैं प्रकृतिकी परम विद्या बताया गया है। राजन! वही सम्पूर्ण ज्ञानका सर्वरूप ज्ञेय है

English

Detachment is the supreme rule of this liberation; and detachment arises from knowledge alone, by which one is freed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदेतद् गुणसर्गाय विकुर्वाणं पुन: पुन: अधिष्ठानात् क्षेत्रमाहुरेतत्तत् पजचविंशकम्

English

By knowledge one makes effort; by effort the great is gained; that success which goes beyond the span of life is for release from the great pairs.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एक-दूसरेका अधिष्ठान होनेके कारण पुरुषको भी क्षेत्र कहते हैं

English

This supreme understanding of freedom from the pairs I have gained right here, with delusion gone, moving about with attachments released.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदा सह गुणैस्तैस्तु पजचविंशो विलीयते क्षेत्रज्ञीडपि यदा तात तरक्षेत्रे सम्प्रलीयते

English

As a field softened and flooded with water brings forth a sprout, so the action of men brings forth rebirth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उसका भी पृथक् अस्तित्व नहीं रहता

English

And as seed that has been roasted in a pot, wherever it is, does not sprout, since it is seedless, though reaching the condition of a cause of sprouting,

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्गुणत्वं च वैदेह गुणेष्वप्रतिवर्तनात् भी गुणोंमें प्रवृत्त न होनेके कारण निर्गुण (गुणातीत) हो जाता है

English

so by the blessed mendicant Shikha's teaching, knowledge made seedless in me does not sprout in objects.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रकृत्या निर्गुणस्त्वेष इत्येवमनुशुश्रुम

English

I am not attached to anything, nor to any harm or possession; I am not drawn to these, since attachment and fault are useless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वह स्वभावसे ही निर्गुण है--यह हमने सुन रखा है प्रकृतिके सगुणत्वको और अपने निर्गुणत्वको यथार्थ समझ लेता है

English

One who would anoint my right arm with sandal and one who would cut my left with an adze are both equal to me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अन्यो5हमन्येयमिति यदा बुध्यति बुद्धिमान्

English

Happy am I, my aim attained, clod, stone and gold alike; freed from attachment, I stand in the kingdom, distinguished from other wearers of the triple staff.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भिन्न है, तब वह प्रकृतिसे रहित हो जानेसे अपने शुद्ध स्वरूपमें स्थित होता है पश्यते च परं पश्यं तदा पश्यन्न संत्यजेत्

English

In liberation threefold steadfastness has been seen by earlier great sages: knowledge above the world, and renunciation of all actions.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मत्स्यो जाल॑ ह्ुविज्ञानादनुवर्तितवानिह

English

Some who know the shastra of liberation speak of steadfastness in knowledge; others, the ascetics who see the subtle, of steadfastness in action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनुवर्तितवान् मोहादन्यमन्यं जनाज्जनम्

English

Leaving both, knowledge and action, alone: this third steadfastness was declared by that great soul.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मोहवश एक शरीरसे दूसरे शरीरका अनुसरण करता रहा साम्यमेकत्वमायातो यादृशस्तादृशस्त्वहम्

English

In restraint, in rule, in aversion, in desire, in possessions, in pride, in hypocrisy and in affection, they are the same as householders.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अयं हि विमलो व्यक्तमहमीदृशकस्तथा

English

If there is liberation by some knowledge in the triple staff and the like, why not in the parasol and the like, when the cause of possession is the same?

हिन्दी अर्थ

समयतक इस आसक्तिमयी जड प्रकृतिके साथ रमता रहा मैं कैसे रह सकता हूँ?

English

For whatever reason someone has a purpose, he relies on that thing; everyone has his own possessions.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गच्छाम्यबुद्धभावत्वादेषेदानीं स्थिरो भवे

English

One who, seeing fault in the household life, goes to another stage, giving up and taking, is not freed from attachment either.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यो5हमत्राभवं सक्त: पराड्मुखमुपस्थित: विमुख होकर इसमें आसक्त हुआ स्थित रहा

English

In rulership, equal, of the nature of restraint and favour, by what mark are royal sages, mendicants and teachers freed?

हिन्दी अर्थ

अमूर्तश्चापि मूर्तात्मा ममत्वेन प्रधर्षित:

English

Or if, in true lordship, one is freed by knowledge alone, why are they not freed, standing in the supreme state?

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्ममस्य ममत्वेन कि कृतं तासु तासु च न ममात्रानया कार्यमहंकारकृतात्मया

English

Wearing ochre, shaven head, the triple staff, the water-pot: these marks are excessive; they are not for liberation: so I hold.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इदानीमेष बुद्धो5स्मि निर्ममो निरहंकृत:

English

If, with this mark present, knowledge alone is the cause here for release from sorrow, then the mark alone is useless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मैं सावधान हो गया हूँ, इसलिये ममता और अहंकारसे रहित हो गया हूँ अपेत्याहमिमां हित्वा संश्रयिष्ये निरामयम्

English

Or, if one's mind is set on the mark seeing the loosening of sorrow, why is that same common purpose not seen in the parasol and the rest?

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्षेमं मम सहानेन नैकत्वमनया सह अक्षरत्वं नियच्छेत त्यक्त्वा क्षरमनामयम्

English

In having nothing there is liberation; in having something there is no bondage; a creature is freed by knowledge, whether having something or not.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्गुणं प्रथमं दृष्टवा तादृगू भवति मैथिल

English

Therefore in dharma, wealth and desire, and in the possession of a kingdom, these seats of bondage, know me standing in the unbound state.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मयेह ज्ञानसम्पन्नं यथाश्रुतिनिदर्शनात् प्रवक्ष्यामि तु ते भूयस्तन्निबोध यथाश्रुतम्

English

The snare made of royal lordship, whose bond is the seat of affection, has been cut by me here with the sharp sword of renunciation on the stone of liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यदेव शास्त्र सांख्योक्ते योगदर्शनमेव ततू

English

Such, I am freed, mendicant, having found faith in you; your colour is not real; I shall tell; hear it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विस्पष्टं प्रोच्यते तत्र शिष्याणां हितकाम्यया उसका तुम्हारे निकट स्पष्टरूपसे वर्णन किया है

English

Your delicacy, such form, excellent body and age: all these are yours, and your rule is in doubt.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अम्मिंश् शास्त्रे योगानां पुनर्वेदे पुरः:सर:

English

And your conduct, not befitting this mark: 'Is he freed or not?' By this my possession has been violated.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सांख्यानां तु परं तत्त्व यथावदनुवर्णितम् दो चेतन माने गये हैं

English

For one who is freed and joined with desire there is no triple staff; this is not guarded by you; the freed one has no guarding.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आत्मानं बहुधा कृत्वा तान्येव प्रविचक्षते

English

And from resorting to my side, hear what your transgression is, who by nature resort to my earlier possession:

हिन्दी अर्थ

करके उन रूपोंको सत्य मानकर देखता रहता है गुणान् धारयते होष सृजत्याक्षिपते तदा

English

By whom was entry made by you into my kingdom and city, or by whose permission did you enter my heart?

हिन्दी अर्थ

लेकर रचना और संहार किया करता है

English

You are the chief of the best class, a brahmana; I am a kshatriya; there is no union of the two; do not make a mixing of classes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कदाचित्् त्वेव खल्वेतदाहुरप्रतिबुद्धकम्

English

You live in the dharmas of liberation, while I am in the householder's stage; and this is a second mixing of stages, quite clear.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनेनाप्रतिबुद्धेति वदन्त्यव्यक्तमच्युतम् अविकारी जीवात्माको लोग "मूढ़” कह दिया करते हैं

English

Of the same lineage or different, you do not know me, I do not know you; for you entering one of the same lineage is a third mixing of lineage.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पज्चविंशं महात्मानं न चासावपि बुध्यते

English

Or if your husband is alive, or away somewhere, a wife of another is unapproachable: the fourth mixing of dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सतुतंपज्चविंशं च चतुर्विशं च बुध्यते वस्तुओंमें स्वभावसे ही व्याप्त है; अतः वह सबको जानता है

English

You, such, resolve these unfit acts, intent on some purpose, whether joined with ignorance or false knowledge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुध्यमानो यदा55त्मानमन्यो5हमिति मन्यते

English

Or if you are independent, then by some fault of yours; if you have heard anything, all is done in vain.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भिन्न मानता है, तब यह प्रकृतिका अधिपति हो जाता है बुध्यते च परां बुद्धि विशुद्धाममलां यदा

English

This is another, third thing in you, destroyer of the touch of feeling: the mark of a spoiled one is seen; it has been declared and revealed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततस्त्यजति सोड्व्यक्तं सर्गप्रलयधर्मि वै

English

Your purpose is not in me alone; wishing victory in victory, you wish to conquer this whole assembly of mine too.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततः केवलधर्मासौ भवत्यव्यक्तदर्शनात् एतत् तु तत्त्वमित्याहुर्निस्तत््वमजरामरम्

English

Thus indeed you again press your own view, to defeat my side and to set up your own side.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्त्वोंसे अतीत तथा जरा-मरणसे रहित है

English

You, bewildered by impatience of your own and the delusion of prosperity, again create the weapon of yoga, like poison and nectar in one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पज्चविंशति तत्त्वानि प्रवदन्ति मनीषिण: एष मुज्चति तच््व॑ हि क्षिप्रं बुद्धस्य लक्षणम्

English

For two who wish it, the union of woman and man is like nectar; and non-union for the unattached, there the fault is like poison.

हिन्दी अर्थ

केवलेन बलेनैव समतां यात्यसंशयम् एतन्नानात्वमित्युक्त सांख्यश्रुतिनिदर्शनात्

English

Do not question, know it well, keep to your own shastra; this inquiry 'is he freed or not' was made by you for me; all this you ought not to hide from me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्रुतियोंद्वारा दिग्दर्शन कराया गया है

English

If you, for your own business, or for another king, are hiding your truth in a disguise, you ought not to hide it from me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विभुस्त्यजति चाव्यक्तं यदा त्वेतद् विबुद्धाते एष हाप्रतिबुद्धश्च बुध्यमानश्न॒ तेडनघ

English

One should not go falsely to a king, nor in any way to a twice-born, nor to a woman endowed with womanly virtues; those who go falsely are killed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नानात्वैकत्वमेतावद् द्रष्टव्यं शास्त्रदर्शनात्

English

For kings, lordship is their strength; for knowers of Brahman, Brahman; for women, beauty, youth and good fortune are the highest strength.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मत्स्योदके यथा तद्वदन्यत्वमुपलभ्यते एतद्धि मोक्ष इत्युक्तमव्यक्तज्ञानसंहितम्

English

Therefore, one wishing his own end should approach the strong with these strengths honestly; for dishonesty leads to destruction.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एष मोक्षयितव्येति प्राहुरव्यक्तगोचरात्

English

You ought to tell truly your birth, learning, conduct, feeling, your nature, and the business of your coming."

हिन्दी अर्थ

परेण परधर्मा च भवत्येष समेत्य वै विमुक्तधर्मा मुक्तेन समेत्य पुरुषर्षभ

English

Thus addressed by the king with these disagreeable, unfitting and incoherent words, Sulabha did not tremble.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सनातन ब्रह्म विशुद्धमाद्यम्

English

When the king had spoken, Sulabha of lovely appearance began to speak words yet more lovely.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रबोधहेतो: प्रणतस्य शासनम् आया हो, वही इस उपदेशको सुननेका अधिकारी है

English

Free of nine faults that spoil speech and intellect, and endowed with ten virtues, with fitting meaning:

हिन्दी अर्थ

देयं तु देयं च निबोध यादृशे

English

subtlety, number, sequence, determination and purpose: these five kinds of meaning, king, are called speech.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरुषको निस्संदेह इस परम उत्तम ज्ञानका उपदेश देना तुझे उचित है

English

Hear the good marks of each of these, subtlety and the rest, as they are being unfolded by words and by phrase.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्ञानस्य तत्त्वार्थमिदं विदित्वा महाज्ञानं मोक्षविदां परायणम्

English

When knowledge operates in differing knowables by difference, then the surpassing understanding is called subtlety.

हिन्दी अर्थ

किया है। यह मोक्ष ज्ञानियोंका परम आश्रय है

English

The measure of faults and virtues by division, in view of some purpose, is to be taken as number.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पज्चविंशो महाराज परमर्षिनिदर्शनात् नावबुध्यति तत्त्वेन बुध्यमानोडजरामरम्

English

'This first, this afterward': what is to be said is intended; the knowers of speech call that order.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जरा-मृत्युसे रहित परब्रह्म परमात्माको प्राप्त होता है

English

Having pledged specially regarding dharma, wealth, desire and liberation, at the end of the speech 'this is that' is said; that is determination.

हिन्दी अर्थ

था। जिसे यथार्थरूपसे तुम्हें भी बताया है वसिष्ठादृषिशार्दूलान्नारदो5वाप्तवानिदम्

English

Where the highest degree of sorrows born of wish and aversion arises, the livelihood there, king, is held to be the purpose.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मा शुच: कौरवेन्द्र त्वं श्रुत्वैतत् परमं पदम्

English

Subtlety and the rest, as told, lord of the people, are joined in one meaning; hear my speech.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्यते तु भयं तस्य यो नैतदू वेत्ति पार्थिव योनियोंमें जन्म-मरणके कष्टका अनुभव करता है

English

I shall speak to you the highest: joined with meaning, undivided in meaning, not turned aside, not excessive, not rough, not doubtful.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यदि शुध्यति कालेन तस्मादज्ञानसागरात्

English

Not joined with heavy syllables, not facing away, not untrue, not opposed to the three aims, not uncollected,

हिन्दी अर्थ

वने ददर्श विप्रेन्द्रमृषिं वंशधरं भूगो: देखा; जो ब्राह्मणोंमें श्रेष्ठ एवं महर्षि भूगुके वंशधर थे

English

not deficient, not with a word misused, not said out of order, not with remainder, not by alternative, not causeless or reasonless.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरुषस्याध्रुवे देहे कामस्य वशवर्तिन: और परलोकमें किस उपायसे कल्याण हो सकता है?

English

I shall not speak from desire, anger, fear, greed, dejection, ignobleness, shame, pity or pride in any way.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निजगाद ततस्तस्मै श्रेयस्करमिदं वच:

English

When speaker, hearer and speech are perfect, king, meeting in the wish to speak, then the matter is revealed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कल्याणकारी वचन कहा भूतानां प्रतिकूलेभ्यो निवर्तस्व यतेन्द्रिय:

English

But when the speaker, in what is to be said, despises the hearer and speaks for his own purpose or another's, speech does not take root.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आचरणोंसे दूर हट जाओ

English

And if a man, giving up his own purpose, speaks for another's purpose, suspicion arises in him; that speech too is faulty.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्माल्लोकास्त्रयस्तात प्रवृत्ता: सचराचरा: प्राणियोंसहित तीनों लोक धर्मसे ही उत्पन्न हुए हैं

English

But the speaker who speaks a meaning not opposed to both the hearer and himself is the speaker, king, not another.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मधु पश्यसि दुर्बुद्धे प्रपातं नानुपश्यसि

English

This speech, full of meaning and joined with the wealth of speech: hear it, king, with mind undistracted and one-pointed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथा धर्मे परिचय: कर्तव्यस्तत्फलार्थिना धर्मका फल चाहनेवाले मनुष्यको भी धर्मका परिचय प्राप्त करना चाहिए

English

"Who are you, whose, whence?" I was asked by you; to that, king, hear this answer with one mind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सता तु धर्मकामेन सुकरं कर्म दुष्करम्

English

As lac and wood and dust stick well together with drops of water, so, king, is the origin of creatures here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ग्रामे वनसुखाचारो यथा वनचरस्तथा निवृत्तौ वा प्रवृत्तौ वा सम्प्रधार्य गुणागुणान्

English

Sound, touch, taste, form, smell and the five senses, and the self separate, are ten selves, joined like lac and wood.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्रद्धापूर्वक धर्मके पालनमें लग जाओ)

English

There is no urging among them: so it is settled; knowledge in each is not in the self, nor in the others.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देहाद् देहलहस्नाणि तथा समभिपद्यते

English

The eye does not know the eye, you; the ear does not abide in the self; so they do not act upon one another by deviation; joined, they are not born, like dust here with water.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपपसद्यति संयोगाद् गुणै: सह गुणक्षयात् तिर्यग्योनियोंमें और कभी देवताओंमें जन्म लेता है

English

They depend on outer virtues; hear those too: form, eye and light are three causes in seeing; as here, so in other knowings and knowables.

हिन्दी अर्थ

है। मनुष्यलोकसे कभी-कभी अनन्त नरकोंमें भी पड़ता है

English

In that interval between knowledge and knowable, another quality named mind, by which one deliberates good and bad in decision.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सूत्रतन्तुगुणर्नित्यं तथायमगुणो गुणौ: शीर्षरोगेडक्षिरोगे च दन्‍तशूले गलग्रहे

English

A twelfth quality there is intellect, by which one decides, with doubt first, in things to be known.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्यथा होती और कभी गलेमें घेधा निकल आता है

English

Then in the twelve there is another quality named sattva, by which a creature is inferred to be of great or little goodness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्वित्रकुछे3ग्निदग्थे च सिध्मापस्मारयोरपि शिकार होता रहता है

English

Another is the fourteenth quality there, the knower of the field, by which this one thinks "this is mine" and does not think it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उत्पद्यन्ते विचित्राणि तान्येषो5प्यभिमन्यते

English

Then a fifteenth quality there, king: the totality of the aggregate of the several parts, so it is said here.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मण्डूकशायी च तथा वीरासनगतस्तथा वीरस्थानाम्बुपड़के च शयनं फलकेषु च

English

Another quality there is the sixteenth, the aggregate, in which these two qualities, shape and manifestation, rest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मुज्जमेखलनग्नत्वं क्षौीमकृष्णाजिनानि च

English

Pleasure and pain, old age and death, gain and loss, dear and undear: this is the nineteenth, held to be the conjunction of pairs.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अंगोंको ढँक लेता है। कभी रेशमी पीताम्बर पहनता है कीटकावसनश्लैव चीरवासास्तथैव च

English

Beyond the nineteen, another quality named time; by these twenty know the origin and dissolution of beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भोजनानि विचित्राणि रत्नानि विविधानि च करता है और कभी दिनके चौथे, छठे या आठवें पहरमें भोजन करता है

English

And this aggregate is wonderful; the five great elements, and being and non-being, the two other qualities that illuminate.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वायुभक्षोम्बुपिण्याकदधिगोमय भोजन:

English

So the twenty qualities and the seven that are remembered: the rule, semen and strength are three other qualities.

हिन्दी अर्थ

खली, कभी दही और कभी गोबर खाकर ही रहता है शैवालभोजननश्चैव तथा5चामेन वर्तयन्

English

The twenty-first and the ten are held to be parts by count; where all are present together, that is called the body.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विविधानि च कृच्छाणि सेवते सिद्धिकाड्क्षया

English

Of these parts some want the unmanifest, nature; another, seeing grossly, sees the manifest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चातुराश्रम्यपन्थानमाश्रयत्यपथानपि विविक्ताश्न शिलाच्छायास्तथा प्रस्रवणानि च

English

Whether unmanifest or manifest, twofold or fourfold, those who think on the self see the nature of all beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवस्थानानि पुण्यानि विविक्तानि सरांसि च

English

This unmanifest nature has become manifest through the parts: I, you, king of kings, and the other embodied beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विविक्तानि च जप्यानि व्रतानि विविधानि च यज्ञांश्न विविधाकारान् विधींश्व विविधांस्तथा

English

States beginning with the placing of a drop, arisen from semen and blood, by whose falling alone the embryo is formed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दानं च विविधाकारं दीनान्धकृपणादिषु

English

From the embryo the swelling arises, from the swelling the flesh-mass, from the flesh-mass the formation of the limbs, and nails and hair from the limbs.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वधाकारवषट्कारौ स्वाहाकारनमस्क्रिया: शुभाशुभमयं सर्वमेतदाहु: क्रियापथम्

English

In the ninth month complete, Maithila, of the born creature, name and form arise, woman or man by the mark.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सबको समेटकर अकेला ही रह जाता है

English

Seeing a form newly born, with copper-red nails and fingers, then it becomes the form of a child, and the earlier is not found in the form.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्रियां क्रियापथोपेतस्तथा तदिति मन्यते

English

From childhood to youth and from youth to old age; by this sequence the earlier is not found.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रजसा तमसा चैव व्याप्तं सर्वमनेकथा ममैवैतानि जायन्ते धावन्ते तानि मामिति

English

The separation of the parts, of different purposes, goes on moment by moment in all beings, but from subtlety it is not perceived.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मन्यतेयं हाबुद्धत्वात् तथैव सुकृतान्यपि

English

Neither their dissolution nor their origin is seen, king; the course of state to state is like the flame of a lamp.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इहैव चैनं भोक्ष्यामि शुभाशुभफलोदयम् यावदन्तं च मे सौख्यं जात्यां जात्यां भविष्यति

English

And with its origin so, running like a good horse constantly, who is this of the whole world, whence, or whence not?

हिन्दी अर्थ

महद् दुःखं हि मानुष्यं निरये चापि मज्जनम्

English

Whose is this, or whose not? Whence is this, or not? What relation is there among beings even with their own members here?

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनुष्यत्वाच्च देवत्वं देवत्वात् पौरुषं पुन: य एवं वेत्ति नित्यं वै निरात्मा55त्मगुणैवुत:

English

As fire arises from the sun, from the jewel and from the plants, so beings arise from the combination of parts.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ममत्वेनावृतो नित्यं तत्रैव परिवर्तते

English

As you see the self in the self by the self, so why do you not see the self in another by the self? If you resolve upon equality of self and other...

हिन्दी अर्थ

कोटि सृष्टिपर्यन्त नश्वर शरीरोंमें ही सदा चक्कर लगाता रहता है य एवं कुरुते कर्म शुभाशुभफलात्मकम्

English

then why do you ask me 'who are you, whose?' For one freed from the pairs, 'this is mine, this is not,' what purpose is there in asking 'who are you, whose, whence?'

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रकृतिश्च तदश्नाति त्रिषु लोकेषु कामगा

English

He who has made enemy, friend and neutral, victory, peace and war, lord of the earth, what mark of the freed is in him?

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुरुष अज्ञानके कारण कर्ता-भोक्ता बन जाता है) त्रीणि स्थानानि चैतानि जानीयात् प्रकृतानि ह

English

He who does not know the sevenfold manifest in the three aims in actions, and who is attached to the three aims, what mark of the freed is in him?

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथैव पौरुषं लिड्रमनुमानाद्धि मन्‍्यते व्रणद्वाराण्यधिष्ठाय कर्मण्यात्मनि मन्यते

English

He who has no equal eye in the dear and undear, the weak and strong, what mark of the freed is in him?

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपनेमें मान लेता है

English

The conceit you have in your liberation, while unfreed, king, should be turned aside by friends, as a deranged man by physicians.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वागादीनि प्रवर्तन्ते गुणेष्विह गुणा: सह सृष्टिसे उसका कोई सम्बन्ध नहीं होनेपर भी सृष्टिको अपनी ही समझता है

English

Looking at those and those places of attachment, scourge of foes, he should see in the self by the self; what mark of the freed is in him?

हिन्दी अर्थ

अक्षर: क्षरमात्मानमबुद्धिस्त्वभिमन्यते

English

Hear from me these other subtle seats of attachment, resorting to liberation, that go on in four limbs.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्गकोटि सहस्राणि पतनान्तानि गच्छति जीवका निरन्तर पतन होता है तथा उसे हजारों-करोड़ बार जन्म लेने पड़ते हैं

English

The king who rules this whole earth under one parasol dwells in just one city.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लीयतेडप्रतिबुद्धत्वादेवमेष हाबुद्धिमान्

English

In that city he occupies just one house; in the house, one bed in which he lies at night.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नित्यमेतद् विजानीहि सोम॑ वै षोडशीं कलाम् उसको तुम नित्य समझो। वह चन्द्रमाकी अमा नामक सोलहवीं कलाके समान है

English

Half the bed, too, a woman occupies first; so by this connection he is joined with its fruit.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धाम तस्योपयुञ्जन्ति भूय एवोपजायते

English

So too in enjoyments, in food and clothing, in measured virtues, regarding restraint and favour:

हिन्दी अर्थ

न तूपयुज्यते देवै्देवानुपयुनक्ति सा सोलहवीं कला अर्थात् उन सबकी कारणभूता प्रकृति ही उनका उपयोग करती है

English

a king is ever dependent, and engaged in small things; in peace and war where is the king's independence?

हिन्दी अर्थ

उसीमें भटकता रहता है

English

In pleasures of women and recreation, he is always unfree; in counsel and in the assembly of ministers how is he independent?

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्त्रीपुंसोर्वापि भगवन् सम्बन्धस्तद्वदुच्यते

English

When he commands others, then his independence is said; but he is made helplessly to do things in this and that quality.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋते स्त्रियं न पुरुषो रूप॑ निर्वर्त येत् तथा पुरुष ही किसी शरीरको उत्पन्न कर सकता है

English

Wanting to sleep, he cannot sleep because of people seeking business; even permitted to sleep in bed, he is woken helplessly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्माण होता है। प्रायः सभी योनियोंमें ऐसी ही स्थिति है

English

"Bathe, anoint, drink, eat, offer to the fires, sacrifice, speak, listen": thus he is made helplessly to act by others.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अस्थि स्नायुश्न मज्जा च जानीम: पितृतो गुणा: एवमेतद् द्विजश्रेष्ठ वेदे शास्त्रे च पठ्यते

English

Men approach and approach him begging always, and, guarding his wealth, he cannot bring himself to give to a great multitude.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वेदशास्त्रद्धयं चैव प्रमाणं तत् सनातनम्

English

In giving, his treasury is lost; if he refuses, enmity; in a moment faults that cause detachment arise in him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जाता है, वह सब ठीक है; क्योंकि वेद और शास्त्र दोनों ही सनातन प्रमाण हैं एवमेवाभिसम्बद्धौ नित्यं प्रकृतिपूरुषी

English

He fears the wise, the brave and the rich even in one place; in safety there is fear for a king from those who always attend him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अथवानन्तरकृतं किंचिदेव निदर्शनम्

English

When these whom I have named turn bad, king, from them fear arises in him, see what kind.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और मुझे ठीक-ठीक समझा दीजिये; क्योंकि आपको सदा सब कुछ प्रत्यक्ष है कोई शासक नहीं रहता

English

Each king in his own house, each householder in his own house, doing restraint and favour, is equal to King Janaka.

हिन्दी अर्थ

है, वह ठीक है। तुम जैसा समझते हो, वैसी ही बात है

English

Sons, wives, the self, treasury, friends and hoard are shared with others; by those and those causes they are his.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नच ग्रन्थस्य तत्त्वज्ञो यथातत्त्व॑ नरेश्वर नच ग्रन्थार्थतत्त्वज्ञस्तस्य तद्धारणं वृथा

English

If a country is destroyed, a city burnt, the chief elephant dead, he is tormented by false knowledge in these common things of the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यस्तु ग्रन्थार्थतत्त्वज्ञो नास्य ग्रन्थागमो वृथा यथा तत्त्वाभिगमनादर्थ तस्य स विन्दति

English

Unfreed from mental sorrows born of wish, aversion and love, by diseases like headache, and by the falling kind,

हिन्दी अर्थ

स कथं मन्दविज्ञानो ग्रन्थं वक्ष्यति निर्णयात्

English

struck by those and those pairs, suspicious on every side, he serves a kingdom with many foes, counting the nights.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नहीं बता सकता, वह निर्णयपूर्वक उस ग्रन्थका तात्पर्य कैसे कह सकता है? सोपहासात्मतामेति यस्माच्चैवात्मवानपि

English

That is very little happiness, much sorrow, without essence; who would take a kingdom, and having taken it, find peace?

हिन्दी अर्थ

याथातथ्येन सांख्येषु योगेषु च महात्मसु

English

This city and kingdom, army, treasury and ministers which you think 'mine': whose are they, or not, king?

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकं सांख्यं च योगं च य: पश्यति स बुद्धिमान् देहाद् देहमवाप्रोति बीजाद बीज॑ तथैव च

English

Ally, minister, city, realm, rod, treasury and the king: this sevenfold wheel-aggregate is called a kingdom, king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देहसे देहकी प्राप्ति होती है

English

In this sevenfold kingdom, standing like a triple staff, joined to each other's qualities, which is greater than which by quality?

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवं गुणा: प्रकृतितो जायन्ते निविशन्ति च अष्टौ तान्यथ शुक्रेण जानीहि प्राकृतानि वै

English

At those and those times that member is the more distinguished; by which a work is accomplished, it becomes chief.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न वापुमान् पुमांश्चैव स लिज्लीत्यभिधीयते

English

The sevenfold aggregate and three others, best of kings, together are the tenfold group, and enjoy the kingdom as a king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यथा पुष्पफलैर्नित्यमृतवो 5मूर्तयस्तथा रखता है। तात! वही पचीसवाँ तत्त्व है, जो सभी लिंगोंमें नियतरूपसे व्याप्त है

English

The king who is of great energy and devoted to kshatriya dharma should be content with a tenth part, and the others with a tenth less.

हिन्दी अर्थ

केवल त्वभिमानित्वाद् गुणेषु गुण उच्यते

English

There is no king not shared; there is no kingdom without a king; where there is no kingdom, how dharma? Where there is no dharma, how the supreme?

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्धयमानं महाप्राज्ञमबुद्धपरिवर्जनात्

English

The supreme dharma here, the purifier of king and kingdom, is that of which the earth is the fee: there is no horse sacrifice like it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्गुणं चेश्वर॑ नित्यमधिष्ठातारमेव च सांख्ययोगे च कुशला बुध्यन्ते परमैषिण:

English

I, Maithila, can tell these actions and sorrows of kingship by hundreds or even thousands.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुध्यमान प्रबुध्यन्ति गमयन्ति समं तदा

English

I have no attachment even to my own body; how to another's possession? You ought not to speak so to one such as me, freed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

परब्रह्म परमात्माके स्वरूपकी प्राप्ति हो जाती है बुध्यमानाप्रबुद्धानां पृथग्पृथगरिंदम

English

Surely you heard whole liberation from Panchashikha, with its means, with the Upanishad, with its appendages and its settlement?

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकत्वं दर्शनं चास्य नानात्वं चाप्यदर्शनम्

English

How then, king, is there attachment again in parasols and the like, for you freed from attachment, standing over the snares?

हिन्दी अर्थ

पञ्चविंशतिसर्ग तु तत्त्वमाहुर्मनीषिण: पश्याम्येतद्धि संदिग्धमेतयोर्व निदर्शनम्

English

I think what you heard was not heard; or what you heard was falsely heard; or it was heard like heard, and what you heard was another heard.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्थूलबुद्धया न पश्यामि तत्त्वमेतन्न संशय:

English

And yet you stand in these worldly designations; bound by attachment and obstruction, you are, to me, common.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथनमें तनिक भी संशय नहीं है तदप्यस्थिरबुद्धित्वात् प्रणष्टमिव मेडनघ

English

The entry I made into you by goodness: what harm was done to you by it, if you are wholly freed?

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्ध चाप्रतिबुद्धं च बुध्यमानं च तत्त्वतः

English

This is the rule in the dharmas of ascetics: dwelling in empty places; in occupying an empty place what is spoiled, and of whom?

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूर्णरूपसे समझना चाहता हूँ योगकृत्यं महाराज पृथगेव शृणुष्व मे

English

Not with hands, not with arms, not with feet and thighs, sinless one, not with any other limbs do I touch you, lord of men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

योगका अभ्यास न करे। शेष समयमें तत्परतापूर्वक योगका अभ्यास करना चाहिए तिष्ठन्तमजरं तं तु यत् तदुक्तं मनीषिभि:

English

By one born in a great family, modest, far-sighted, this should not be said in an assembly: what is done between two, whether good or bad.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निश्चितरूपसे जानना चाहिए

English

These brahmanas are teachers and these ministers are the best teachers; you too are a teacher of them; so is mutual respect.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पूर्वरात्रेडपररात्रे धारयीत मनो55त्मनि पहले और पिछले भागमें मनको आत्मामें एकाग्र करे

English

So, having considered this and testing what is to be said and not said, this union of woman and man should not be spoken by you in the assembly.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनो बुद्धया स्थिरं कृत्वा पाषाण इव निश्चल:

English

As water standing on a lotus leaf stays on the leaf without touching it, so I shall dwell in you, Maithila.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न च स्पर्श विजानाति न संकल्पयते मन: तदा प्रकृतिमापन्नं युक्तमाहुर्मनीषिण:

English

And if, though I do not touch, you know some touch of mine, how did that mendicant make your knowledge seedless?

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्लिड्रोडविचलश्नोर्ध्व न तिर्यग् गतिमाप्रुयात्

English

You, fallen from the household life and not having gained liberation hard to know, live in the middle of both, a wind-bag of liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हृदयस्थो न्तरात्मेति ज्ञेयो ज्ञस्तात मद्धिधै: अन्तरात्माका ही ज्ञान प्राप्त करना उचित है

English

For one freed, knowing, with the freed, in oneness and separateness, in the meeting of being and non-being, there arises no mixing of classes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणा ब्रह्म॒योनिस्था हयोनिममृतात्मकम्

English

In the separateness of classes and stages, for one who has seen the purpose and does not see separateness, knowing 'not one thing and another,' nothing goes on as one thing and another.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विमलो वितमस्कक्न निर्लिड्रोडलिड्गसंज्ञित: एवं पश्यं प्रपश्यन्ति आत्मानमजरं परम्

English

As a jasmine in the hand, milk in the jasmine, flies in the milk, we are separate supports by union of support and supported.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सांख्यज्ञानं प्रवक्ष्यामि परिसंख्यानदर्शनम्

English

There is no being of milk in the jasmine, nor of flies in the milk; these states themselves resort, not to another's support.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पज्चभूतान्यहड्कारादाहु: सांख्यात्मदर्शिन:

English

By the separateness of stages and the difference of classes and mutual separateness, how is there mixing of classes for you?

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्वानोंका कथन है पज्च चैव विशेषा वै तथा पउ्चेन्द्रियाणि च

English

I am not of the highest class by birth, nor a vaishya, nor lower; I am of your own class, king, of pure womb, unfallen.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सांख्ये विधिविधानज्ञा नित्यं सांख्यपथे रता:

English

There was a royal sage named Pradhana; it has come plainly to your ear; know me, born in his family, as Sulabha by name.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लीयन्ते प्रतिलोमानि सृज्यन्ते चान्तरात्मना गुणा गुणेषु सततं सागरस्योर्मयो यथा

English

Drona, Shatashringa and Vakradvara the mountain, in my ancestors' sacrifices, were piled with Maghavan.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकत्वं प्रलये चास्य बहुत्वं च यदासृजत्

English

Born in that family, I have no husband like me; trained in the dharmas of liberation, I roam alone, keeping the sage's vow.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अधिष्ठातारमव्यक्तमस्याप्येतन्निदर्शनम् एकत्वं प्रलये चास्य बहुत्वं च प्रवर्तनात्

English

I am not disguised in a guise, not proud of another's wealth, not a maker of mixing of dharma; I keep my vow in my own dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तच्च क्षेत्र महानात्मा पठचविंशोडथधितिछति

English

I am not unsteady in my own promise, not speaking without consideration; I have not come to you without consideration, lord of the people.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अधिष्ठानादधिष्ठाता क्षेत्राणामिति न: श्रुतम् क्षेत्रमव्यक्तमित्युक्त ज्ञाता वै पजचविंशक:

English

Hearing of your mind turning to liberation, I, wishing good, came here to inquire about this liberation of yours.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ज्ञानमव्यक्तमित्युक्त ज्ञेयो वै पजचविंशक:

English

I do not say this as belonging to a party, neither of my side nor of another's; one freed is not freed, and one calm is not calm.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनीश्वरमतत्त्वं च तत्त्व तत् पजचविंशकम् सांख्या: प्रकुर्वते चैव प्रकृतिं च प्रचक्षते

English

As a mendicant would stay a night in an empty city house, so I shall stay this night in this body of yours.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यदा तु बुध्यते55त्मानं तदा भवति केवल: अर्थात् अपने विशुद्ध परब्रह्मरूपमें स्थित हो जाता है

English

Honoured by the gift of a seat and the hospitality of speech, I shall sleep well and, pleased, go tomorrow, Maithila."

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवमेतद् विजानन्त:ः साम्यतां प्रति यान्त्युत

English

Hearing these words, reasoned and meaningful, the king found nothing more to say after that.