Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्माजीसे सहन न हो सका

English

"Yudhishthira said, 'Tell me, O grandsire, whence and how happiness and misery come to those that are rich, as also those that are poor, but who live in the observance of different practices and rites.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

आवश्यकता प्रतीत हुई है संहारार्थ महादेव भारेणाप्सु निमज्जति

English

[Sanatkumara said:] "He whose head and endless seat are, best of Danavas, of him I shall tell you the highest greatness, of Vishnu."

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रादुर्बभूव विश्वेभ्य: खेभ्यो नारी महात्मन:

English

[Bhishma said:] While they spoke thus, the great sage Sanatkumara, righteous-souled, came to cut their doubt.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपध्यास्यन्ति यद्येवं मृतास्तेषां बिभेम्पहम् लोगोंसे बहुत डरती हूँ

English

Honoured by the lord of the asuras and by the sage Ushanas, he sat on a seat, king, the bull among sages, most worthy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तथैवैकपदे तात पुनरन्यानि सप्त सा

English

To him seated, the greatly wise, Ushanas said: "Tell this lord of the Danavas the highest greatness of Vishnu."

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राप्त काले कालयिष्यन्ति मृत्यो न चाधर्म लप्स्यसे तुल्यवृत्ति:

English

Sanatkumara, hearing it, spoke to the wise lord of the Danavas words full of meaning, joined with the greatness of Vishnu.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदा तेषां स्पृहयते ये वै तुष्टा: स्वकैर्धन:

English

"Hear, Daitya, all this highest greatness of Vishnu; know, scourge of foes, that the whole world rests in Vishnu.

हिन्दी अर्थ

धनसे संतुष्ट रहते हैं--दूसरोंके धनपर हाथ लगाना पाप समझते हैं न हि दुश्चरितं किंचिदन्तरात्मनि पश्यति

English

He creates the host of beings, moving and unmoving, mighty-armed; he draws them in at the time and again releases them; into him they go to dissolution and from him they arise.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सत्येन विधुृतं सर्व सर्व सत्ये प्रतेष्ठितम्

English

He cannot be reached by Danava nature, nor by austerity or sacrifice, but only by restraint of the senses.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निरुच्छवासमिवोज्नद्ध त्रिलोक्यमभवन्नूप लोगोंका कहीं साँस लेना भी असम्भव-सा हो गया--सबका दम घुटने लगा

English

"Bhishma continued, 'In this connection is cited the old narrative of what was sung by Sampaka who had obtained tranquillity and achieved emancipation for himself. In former times a certain Brahmana, rendered miserable by a bad wife, bad dress, and hunger, and living in the observance of the vow of renunciation, told me these verses, 3 'Diverse kinds of sorrow and happiness overtake, from the day of birth the person that is born on the earth. If he could ascribe either of them to the action of Destiny, he would not then feel glad when happiness came or miserable when sorrow overtook

हिन्दी अर्थ

चिन्तयन् नाध्यगच्छच्च संहारे हेतुकारणम्

English

him. Though thy mind is divested of desire, thou bearest yet a heavy load. Thou dost not seek to achieve thy good (i.e., emancipation). Art thou not successful in controlling thy mind? If thou goest about, having renounced home and desirable possessions, thou shalt taste real happiness. A person divested of everything sleepeth in happiness, and awaketh in happiness. Complete poverty, in this world, is happiness. It is a good regimen, it is the source of 'blessings, it is freedom from danger. This foeless path is unattainable (by persons cherishing desire) and is easily attainable (by those that are freed from desire). Casting my eyes on every part of the three worlds, I do not behold the person who is equal to a poor man of pure conduct and without attachment (to worldly things). I weighed poverty and sovereignty in a balance. Poverty weighed heavier than sovereignty and seemed to possess greater merits. Between poverty and sovereignty there is this great distinction, viz., that the sovereign, possessed of affluence, is always agitated by anxiety and seems to be within the very jaws of death. As regards, however, the poor man, who in consequence of the divestment of all wealth has freed himself from hopes and emancipated himself, neither fire, nor foe, nor death, nor robbers, can get the better of him. The very gods applaud such a man who wanders about according to his sweet will, who lies down on the bare ground with his arm for a pillow, and who is possessed of tranquillity. Affected by wrath and cupidity, the man of affluence is stained by a wicked heart. He casts oblique glances and makes dry speeches. —He becomes sinful, and his face is always darkened with frowns. Biting his lips, and excited with wrath, he utters harsh and cruel words. If such a man desires to even make a gift of the whole world, who is there that would like even to look at him? Constant companionship with Prosperity stupefies a person of weak judgment. It drives off his judgment like the wind driving off the autumnal clouds. Companionship with Prosperity induces him to think,— I am possessed of beauty! I am possessed of wealth! I am high-born! I meet with success in whatever I undertake! I am not an ordinary human being!— His heart becomes intoxicated in consequence of these three reasons. With heart deeply attached to worldly possessions, he wastes the wealth hoarded by his sires. Reduced to want, he then regards the

हिन्दी अर्थ

ध्यानमें नहीं आया तेन सर्वा दिशो राजन् ददाह स पितामह:

English

So the soul is purified in a hundred births by small action, and by great effort is purified in a single birth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ददाह पावको राजन् भगवत्कोपसम्भव:

English

As one might wipe a little dust from one's body playfully, but removal of faults takes great effort."

हिन्दी अर्थ

चराचर प्राणियोंसहित सम्पूर्ण जगत्को जलाने लगी महता क्रोधवेगेन कुपिते प्रपितामहे

English

As sesame and mustard scented with a little flower do not give up their own smell, such is the seeing of the subtle.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संहार करनेवाले कल्याणकारी भगवान् शिव ब्रह्माजीकी शरणमें गये

English

The same, scented again and again with many flowers, gives up its own smell and stays with the flowers' scent.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कर्ता हास्मि प्रियं शम्भो तव यद् हृदि वर्तते करूँ? तुम्हारे हृदयमें जो भी प्रिय मनोरथ हो, उसे मैं पूर्ण करूँगा”

English

So one joined with hundreds of births, among those attached to qualities, has the fault turned away by intellect, by effort born of practice.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्धि सृष्टास्त्वया हीमा मा कुप्पासां पितामह

English

Hear how, Danava, those who are attached and those detached by their own action gain the particulars of action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

है; अतः आप इनपर क्रोध न कीजिये अवस्थामें देखकर मुझे दया आती है, आप उनपर क्रोध न करें

English

And how they proceed and in what they stand, lord: that I shall explain in order; hear it here one-pointed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लाघवार्थ धरण्यास्तु तत: संहार इष्यते

English

The glorious Hari Narayana, the lord, without beginning or end, creates beings, the fixed and the moving.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संहारमासां वृद्धानां ततो मां क्रोध आविशत्

English

He is in all beings both perishable and imperishable, of the nature of eleven modifications, drinking the world with his rays.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सूझा, तब मुझे क्रोध आ गया मा प्रजा: स्थावरं चैव जड़म॑ च व्यनीनशत्

English

Know the earth as his feet, heaven as his head, the directions as his arms, Daitya, and space as his hearing.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्थावरं जड़म॑ चैव भूतग्रामं चतुर्विधम्

English

The sun is made of his energy; the mind abides in the moon; intellect is ever in knowledge; taste goes on in the waters.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रसीद भगवन् साधो वर एष वृतो मया तस्मान्निवर्ततामेतत् तेन स्वेनेव तेजसा

English

The planets are between his brows, best of the Danavas; the circle of stars is in his eyes, and the earth is in his feet.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इसलिये आप अपने ही प्रभावसे इस क्रोधाग्निको निवृत्त कीजिये

English

Know rajas, tamas and sattva as of the nature of Narayana; he is the mouth of the stages, and the fruit of action, they say.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जिससे ये सारे जीव-जन्तु एक साथ ही दन्ध न हो जायाँ अधिहैवे नियुक्तोडस्मि त्वया लोकेश्चरेश्वर

English

He is also the fruit of non-action, the supreme imperishable; the metres are his hair, and Sarasvati the syllable.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभाव ही हो जायगा; अत: आप इस विनाशको बंद कीजिये

English

Of many supports, many mouths, he rests in the heart as dharma; he is Brahman, supreme dharma, austerity, and being and non-being.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रसाद्य त्वां महादेव याचाम्यावृत्तिजा: प्रजा: पुनः जन्म धारण करे

English

Endowed with scripture and the grasp of the shastras, he is the sixteen priests and the sacrifice; he is the Grandfather and Vishnu; he is the Ashvins and Purandara.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेजस्तत् संनिजग्राह पुनरेवान्तरात्मनि

English

Mitra, Varuna, Yama and the giver of wealth: those who see separately find oneness in him; know that this whole world is in the power of the one god.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रवृत्ति च निवृत्ति च कल्पयामास वै प्रभु: मृत्युकी व्यवस्था की

English

Of the one who has become many, lord of the Daityas, this one speaks of his oneness; a creature sees by knowledge, and then sattva shines.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दिव्यकुण्डलसम्पन्ना दिव्याभरणभूषिता ही थे। वह दिव्य कुण्डलोंसे कान्तिमती तथा अलौकिक आभूषणोंसे विभूषित थी

English

Creatures stand and roam in thousands of crores of dissolutions and emissions; of the measure of the creation of beings there are many thousands of ponds, Daitya.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ददृशाते च तां कन्‍्यां देवौ विश्वेश्वरावुभी

English

Those ponds are a yojana wide, deep by a krosha and unfathomable; five hundred in length each; each is the extent of a yojana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निकट बुलाकर कहा--'तुम इन प्रजाओंका समय-समयपर विनाश करती रहो मूढ़ और विद्वानोंसहित सम्पूर्ण प्रजाओंका संहार करो

English

If one were to take water from a pond with the tip of a hair, once a day and not a second time, when they are emptied know one emission made, and likewise one dissolution of beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रदध्यौ दु:खिता बाला साश्रुपातमतीव च

English

These are the classes of souls, the supreme measure: black, smoky, blue as its middle; red, more bearable, but happiness; turmeric-coloured, very happy; and white.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बहाती हुई दुखी हो बड़ी चिन्तामें पड़ गयी मानवानां हितार्थाय ययाचे पुनरेव ह

English

The supreme white, spotless, griefless, free of weariness, succeeds, lord of the Danavas; having gone through thousands of births in wombs, the soul reaches perfection.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सप्तपञ्चाशदधिकद्विशततमोध्याय:

English

The goal the god declared by sight, having gone, he declared the auspicious sight; the goal of beings is made by colour again, and colour is made by time, lord of asuras.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उवाच प्राज्जलिर्भूत्वा लतेवावर्जिता तदा रौद्रकर्माभिजायेत सर्वप्राणिभयड्करी

English

A hundred and fourteen thousand is the supreme goal of the quality of the soul; know the ascent made so, and their stations and exits.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भयंकर तथा क्रूरतापूर्ण कर्म करनेवाली हो सकती है?

English

The goal of the black colour is the lowest; he sinks in hell, being cooked, and in station; for the bad goals of his, they speak of very many emissions of beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्वं मां भीतामवेक्षस्व शिवेनेक्षस्व चक्षुषा मुझ भयभीत अबलापर दृष्टिपात करें और कल्याणमयी दृष्टिसे मेरी ओर देखें

English

Having roamed a hundred thousand, he afterward gains the green colour; and he, helpless, dwells in it, at the end of the age, his self covered with darkness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लूँगी। आपको नमस्कार है, आप मुझपर प्रसन्न हों

English

When he is joined with the quality of goodness and strives with his own intellect, driving out darkness, he reaches the red colour; blue, he turns about in the human world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेभ्यो5हं बलवद् भीता शरणं त्वामुपागता

English

There, afflicted by the bonds of his own deeds in dissolution and emission, after a hundred dissolutions and emissions have passed, he reaches the turmeric colour.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आपकी शरणमें आयी हूँ प्रसादये त्वां वरद प्रसाद कुरु मे प्रभो

English

Of turmeric colour, he stays in thousands of emissions, roaming; unfreed, in hell, Daitya, then another ten thousand,

हिन्दी अर्थ

इच्छेयं त्वत्प्रसादार्थ तपस्तप्तुं महेश्वर

English

and five thousand goals of his, and the four made by the dissolution; know him as freed from hell and from all other births.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गच्छ संहर सर्वस्त्विं प्रजा मा च विचारय है। जाओ, सारी प्रजाका संहार करो। इसके लिये मनमें कोई विचार न करो

English

He sports constantly in the world of the gods; fallen from there, he comes to humanity; for eight hundred dissolutions and emissions, remaining among mortals, he attains immortality.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न व्याजहार तस्थौ च प्रह्मा भगवदुन्मुखी

English

Then he falls from that by the working of time and stays on the black level; how this soul-world succeeds, I shall tell you, hero of the asuras.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ओर मुँह करके हाथ जोड़े खड़ी रह गयी--कुछ बोल न सकी तूष्णीमासीत् ततो देवो देवानामीश्चरेश्वर:

English

Divine formations, seven hundred: red, turmeric, and likewise white; resorting to this white, he runs to the worlds that are lesser and most worthy.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्मयमानश्न लोकेशो लोकान् सर्वनवैक्षत

English

Eight and sixty hundreds that are opposed to the minds of the greatly radiant; the supreme goal of the white colour is three, which are shut up, great-natured one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सा कन्याथ जगामास्य समीपादिति न: श्रुतम् चली गयी, ऐसा हमने सुना है

English

One unwished dissolution and emission, and four others; he dwells without a master; of the colour in this state the supreme goal is of the perfected, the distinguished, free of weariness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्वरमाणेव राजेन्द्र मृत्युर्थेनुकम भ्यगात्

English

Without a master he dwells in the seventy among them, a hundred dissolutions and emissions with a remainder; returning from there to the human world, the great one comes to humanity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

हट गयी और बड़ी उतावलीके साथ धेनुकाश्रममें जा पहुँची पुनरेव महातेजा ब्रह्मा वचनमब्रवीत्

English

Returning from there in order, he stays at the head of the creation of beings; seven times he goes to the worlds, his dwelling made by dissolution and emission.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुनरेव ततो राजन मौनमातिष्ठदुत्तमम् ततो जगाम सा कन्या कौशिकीं नृपसत्तम

English

Having reckoned seven dissolutions and floods, he stays in the world of the perfected; then he reaches the imperishable, endless seat of the god Vishnu, Brahma, Shesha and Nara, and of the supreme god Vishnu.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ततो ययौ महाभागा गड्जां मेरुं च केवलम्

English

At the time of dissolution, with bodies burnt up, the subjects ever come to Brahma; and the gods all of active nature, and those immortals from the world of Brahma too.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तस्थौ पितामहं चैव तोषयामास यत्नत: किमिदं वर्तते पुत्रि क्रियतां मम तद् वच:

English

The emission of subjects with the remaining time: souls go to their own places; at the end they go to the seat of the remainderless, men who are alike in all calamities.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदाब्रवीद् देवदेवो निगृहोदं वचस्तत:

English

Those who fall in order from the world of the perfected go the goal of those; the other souls, of their strength and shape, go to their own ordinance by reversal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मया हाक्त मृषा भद्रे भविता नेह किंचन कही हुई कोई भी बात यहाँ झूठी नहीं हो सकती

English

As long as one is enjoying the remainder, and in the white are subjects and the two gods, so long, then, in them, his state is pure; having restrained this form of the five senses,

हिन्दी अर्थ

अहं च विबुधाश्रैव त्वद्धिते निरता: सदा

English

he reaches that pure supreme goal, ever seeking with a pure mind; then he reaches the imperishable stable Brahman, hard to attain, eternal. Thus has Narayana's power been told you, undismayed one."

हिन्दी अर्थ

न त्वां दोषेण यास्यन्ति व्याधिसम्पीडिता: प्रजा: स्त्रीषु स्त्रीरूपिणी चैव तृतीयेषु नपुंसकम्

English

[Vritra said:] "That being so, I have no despondency; I see rightly what you say; hearing your words, undismayed one, I am today stainless and free of sin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुनरेव महात्मानं नेति देवेशमव्ययम्

English

This is the wheel of the greatly radiant Vishnu, blessed great sage, unfollowed in valour, the endless, eternal seat in which all creations go on. He is the great-souled best of Persons; in him this whole world is established."

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्मासे पुन: इस प्रकार बोली--'प्रभो! मैं प्राणियोंका संहार नहीं करूँगी” अधर्मस्ते न भविता तथा ध्यास्याम्यहं शुभे

English

[Bhishma said:] Having spoken so, Kaunteya, Vritra gave up his breaths, and joining himself, reached the highest place.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुभे! मैं तुम्हारे लिये शुभ चिन्तन करता रहूँगा

English

[Yudhishthira said:] "Was this the blessed god Janardana, grandsire, whom Sanatkumara described to Vritra long ago?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

संयोज्याथो संहरस्वेह जन्तून्

English

[Bhishma said:] "The blessed one stays at the root, by his own endless energy, and abiding there creates those states in many forms, great ascetic.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करके उनके द्वारा उन्हें मोहमें डालकर मार डालती है गत्वा वृत्ता देववद् राजसिंह

English

Know that Keshava Achyuta is a quarter and a half of him; the wise one sustains the three worlds with a quarter and a half.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राप्त होता है। अत: इस शरीरके भीतर देवाधिदेव वायु (प्राण) ही सबसे श्रेष्ठ है

English

He who stands on this side, the stable one, turns at the end of the aeon; the blessed mighty lord sleeps in the waters; the Creator, serene of soul, roams the eternal worlds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुत्र: स्वर्ग प्राप्प ते मोदते ह प्राप्ते काले संहरन्तीह जन्तून्

English

The endless one makes everything not empty; Sanatkumara moves through the worlds; and the great-souled Aniruddha creates all this variegated world that rests in him."

हिन्दी अर्थ

कोयं धर्म: कुतो धर्मस्तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह

English

[Yudhishthira said:] "Vritra, knower of the highest truth, saw, I think, the good goal of the self; therefore he is happy and does not grieve, grandsire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उभयार्थो हि वा धर्मस्तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह चतुर्थमर्थमित्याहु: कवयो धर्मलक्षणम्

English

The white, of white birth, the accomplished one does not return, sinless one, freed from the animal goal and from hell, grandsire.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लक्षित करानेवाले हैं। कुछ विद्वान् अर्थको भी धर्मका चौथा लक्षण बताते हैं

English

One who stands in the turmeric or red colour, covered with tamasic deeds, would see an animal birth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लोकयात्रार्थमेवेह धर्मस्य नियम: कृत: मर्यादा स्थापित की है

English

But we are greatly fallen into calamity, red, in a mouth of misery; what goal shall we reach, the blue or the lowest, the black?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

अलब्ध्वा निपुणं धर्म पाप: पापेन युज्यते

English

[Bhishma said:] "Pandavas, endowed with pure birth, of strict vows, having sported in the worlds of the gods, you will come to humanity again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लेकर ही धर्मके यथार्थ स्वरूपको जान सकोगे रमते निर्हरन् स्तेन: परवित्तमराजके

English

You will pass happily the emission of subjects in due time, enjoying pleasures among the gods, and you will happily go to the number of the perfected; let there be no fear for you; you are all stainless."