Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

रहे; क्योंकि यह शिष्योंका उपकार कर सकती है” विज्ञापयन्ति सम गुरु पुनर्वाक्यविशारदा:

English

"Bhishma said, 'I shall now, O son of Pritha, discourse to thee upon the four kinds of yoga meditation. The great Rishis, obtaining a knowledge of the same, attain to eternal success even here. Great Rishis gratified with knowledge, with hearts set upon Emancipation, and conversant with yoga, act in such a way that their yoga meditation may get on properly. These, O son of Pritha, being freed from the faults of the world, never come back (for rebirth). Liberated from liability to rebirth, they live in their original

हिन्दी अर्थ

विमुक्तस्येह शिष्यैमें नातिहृष्टमिदं मन:

English

[Narada said:] "For the sake of which, self-born, this excellent birth in four forms in the house of Dharma, let that be accomplished today for the good of the world; I go to see your primal nature.

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्रमश: उनका वर्णन सुनो तेषामप्यभवत् पुत्र: समानो नाम दुर्जय:

English

The Vedas are well studied by me, lord of the world; austerity has been practised; no untruth has been spoken before; I constantly honour the teachers, and I have never divulged another's secret.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुण्यं चाकाशगज़ायास्तोयं विष्टभ्य तिष्ठति

English

The four are guarded by me as the tradition says; I am always equal to enemy and friend; having taken refuge in that primal god constantly, I choose him with single-minded devotion ceaselessly; with these distinctions, of pure sattva, why should I not see the infinite lord?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

सनत्कुमारो भगवानिदं वचनमत्रवीत् नास्ति रागसमं दुःखं नास्ति त्यागसमं सुखम्

English

Hearing those words of Parameshthi's son, Narayana, protector of the Satvata dharma, said to Narada, "Go," having honoured him by the rites of his own order.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मोहजालावृतो दुःखमिह चामुत्र सो5श्लुते बँधा हुआ पुरुष इस लोक तथा परलोकमें दुःख ही भोगता है

English

Dismissed, Parameshthi's son honoured that ancient sage and sprang into the sky with the highest speed; then he suddenly vanished on Meru.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कार्य: श्रेयोडर्थिना तौ हि श्रेयोघातार्थमुद्यती

English

There the sage stayed for a moment, and reaching a solitary peak of the mountain, looking to the north-west, he saw something of wonderful form.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्यां मानावमानाभ्यामात्मानं तु प्रमादत: और अपने-आपको प्रमादसे बचावे

English

North of the Milk Ocean is a great island named Shveta, said by the learned to be thirty-two thousand yojanas above Meru.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आत्मज्ञानं परं ज्ञानं न सत्याद् विद्यते परम्

English

There the men are beyond the senses, without food, motionless, very fragrant, white, free of all sin, with eyes that blind the men who do evil.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदनन्तर प्रवचनकुशल शिष्योंने गुरुसे इस प्रकार निवेदन किया--

English

Soul-state, l Freed from the influence of all pairs of opposites (such as heat and cold, joy and sorrow, etc.), ever existing in their own (original) state, liberated (from attachments), never accepting anything (in gift), they live in places free from the companionship of wives and children, without others with whom disputes may arise, and favourable to perfect tranquillity of heart. There such a person, restraining speech, sits like a piece of wood, crushing all the senses, and with mind undividedly united by the aid of meditation (with the Supreme Soul). He has no perception of sound through the ear; no perception of touch through the skin; no perception of form through the eye; no perception of taste through the tongue. He has no perception also of scents through the organ of smell. Immersed in yoga, he would abandon all things, rapt in meditation. Possessed of great energy of mind, he has no desire for anything that excites the five senses. The wise man, withdrawing his five senses into the mind, should then fix the unstable mind with the five senses (into the Intellect). Possessed of patience, the yogin should fix his mind which always wanders (among worldly objects), so that his five gates (under the influence of training) may be made stable in respect of things that are themselves unstable. He should, in the firmament of the heart, fix his mind into the path of meditation, making it independent of the body or any other refuge. I have spoken of the path of meditation as the first, since the yogin has first to crush his senses and the mind (and direct them to that path). The mind, which constitutes the sixth, when thus restrained, seeks to flash out like the capricious and flighty lightning moving in frolic among the clouds. As a drop of water on a (lotus) leaf is unstable and moves about in all directions, even so becomes the yogin' s mind when first fixed on the path of meditation. When fixed, for a while the mind stays in that path. When, however, it strays again into the path of the wind, it becomes as flighty as the wind. The person conversant with the ways of yoga-meditation, undiscouraged by this, never regarding the loss of the toil undergone, casting aside idleness and malice, should again direct his mind to meditation. Observing the vow of silence, when one begins to set his mind on yoga, then discrimination, knowledge, and power to avoid evil, are gained by him. 2 Though feeling annoyed in consequence of the flightiness of his mind, he should fix it (in meditation). The yogin should never despair, but seek his own good. As a heap of dust or ashes; or of burnt cow-dung, when drenched with water, does not seem to be soaked, indeed, as it continues dry if drenched partially, and requires incessant drenching before it becomes thoroughly soaked, even thus should the yogin gradually control all his senses. He should gradually withdraw them (from all objects). The man that acts in this way

हिन्दी अर्थ

वेदाननेकधा कर्तु यदि ते रुचितं प्रभो प्रत्युवाच ततो वाक्‍्यं धर्मार्थसहितं हितम्

English

With sixty teeth, white, with eight tusks, with tongues they lick the sun-like face on every side.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अप्रमादश्न वः कार्यो ब्रह्म हि प्रचुरच्छलम्

English

With devotion to the god from whom the universe arose, from whom all worlds are born, the Vedas, dharmas, sages and calm gods are all his emanations.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्याजसे (फलोंका लोभ दिखाकर) धर्मका प्रतिपादन करती हैं? जम्मु: प्रदक्षिणं कृत्वा व्यासं मूर्श्नाभिवाद्य च

English

[Yudhishthira said:] Those men, beyond the senses, without food, motionless, fragrant: how were they born, and what is their highest goal?

हिन्दी अर्थ

संयाजयन्तो विप्रांश्व॒ राजन्यांक्ष विशस्तथा

English

The mark of men who are freed here, best of Bharatas, is this, that they dwell in Shvetadvipa.

हिन्दी अर्थ

याजनाध्यापनरता: श्रीमन्तो लोकविश्रुता: तूष्णीं ध्यानपरो धीमानेकान्ते समुपाविशत्

English

Therefore cut my doubt; great is my curiosity; you are the delight of all stories, and we have come to you.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अथैनमब्रवीत् काले मथुराक्षरया गिरा

English

[Bhishma said:] This story, king, is long, and I heard it in my father's presence; it must be told to you, for it is remembered as the essence.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अक्षरोंसे युक्त मीठी वाणीमें उनसे इस प्रकार बोले-- एको ध्यानपरस्तूष्णीं किमास्से चिन्तयन्निव

English

There was a lord of the earth named Uparichara, famed as Indra's friend, devoted to Narayana Hari.

हिन्दी अर्थ

महर्षे यत् त्वया प्रोक्ते वेदवादविचक्षण

English

Righteous, always devoted, unwearied toward the ancestors, he gained empire of old by Narayana's boon.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वज्ञ: सर्वदर्शी च सर्वत्र च कुतूहली तदाज्ञापय विदष्रषेे ब्रूहि किं करवाणि ते

English

Following the Satvata rite, which first issued from the sun's mouth, he worshipped the lord of the gods, and with the remainder the ancestors.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मलं॑ पृथिव्या वाहीका: स्त्रीणां कौतूहलं मलम् विधुन्वन् ब्रह्म॒घोषेण रक्षोभयकृतं तम:

English

With the ancestors' remainder he shared with brahmanas and dependants, eating the remains, intent on truth, harming no beings; devoted with all his being to Janardana, god of gods.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्धिमान् पुत्र शुकदेवजीके साथ वेदोंका स्वाध्याय करते रहें

English

To him bearing devotion to Narayana, scourge of foes, Shakra himself gave a shared couch and seat, god-like king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्वरेणोच्चै: स शैक्ष्येण लोकानापूरयन्निव परिपूर्ण करते हुए-से वेदोंकी आवृत्ति आरम्भ कर दी

English

"Self, kingdom, wealth, wife and vehicles: all this belongs to the blessed one": so he always regarded it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वातोतिमात्र प्रववी समुद्रानिलवेजित:

English

Voluntary, occasional and constant sacrificial rites, all the highest acts, he performed with composure, following the Satvata rule.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कर ही रहे थे कि समुद्री हवासे प्रेरित होकर बड़े जोरकी आँधी चलने लगी शुको वारितमात्रस्तु कौतूहलसमन्वित:

English

In that great soul's house the foremost knowers of the Pancharatra ate first, the refuge told by the Blessed One.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आख्यातुमहति भवान् वायो: सर्व विचेष्टितम्

English

As he ruled the kingdom by dharma, slaying enemies, no untrue speech occurred, his mind was not corrupted, and he did not do the slightest sin with his body.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनध्यायनिमित्तेडस्मिन्निदं वचनमब्रवीत् अनध्यायके कारणपर प्रकाश डालते हुए इस प्रकार बोले---

English

Those famed sages, the seven Chitrashikhandins, becoming of one mind, composed the supreme scripture that was told.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तमसा रजसा चापि त्यक्तः सत्त्वे व्यवस्थित:

English

Marichi, Atri, Angiras, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu and the greatly radiant Vasishtha: these are the Chitrashikhandins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

व्यस्यात्मनि स्वयं वेदान् बुद्धया समनुचिन्तय द्वावेतौ प्रेत्य पन्थानौ दिव॑ चाधश्ष गच्छत:

English

These are the seven natures, and the Svayambhuva is the eighth; by these the world is supported, and from them the scripture issued.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सप्तैते वायुमार्गा वै तान् निबोधानुपूर्वश:

English

One-pointed, self-controlled, sages intent on restraint, thinking of the worlds: "This is the good, this is Brahman, this is the unsurpassed benefit," then composed the scripture.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अदृश्यभावसे रहते हैं, उनके दुर्जय पुत्रका नाम है समान

English

There dharma, wealth and desire, and liberation afterwards, are told, and various limits established in heaven and on earth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपानभश्ष ततो ज्ञेय: प्राणश्षापि ततो5पर: पृथक् कर्माणि तेषां ते प्रवक्ष्यामि यथातथम्

English

Having worshipped by austerity the god Hari Narayana, the lord, for a divine thousand years, all of them with the sages,

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राणनाच्चैव भूतानां प्राण इत्यभिधीयते

English

then, instructed by Narayana, the goddess Sarasvati entered all those sages, wishing the good of the worlds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रथम: प्रथमे मार्गे प्रवहो नाम योडनिल: मार्गमें प्रवाहित होनेवाला 'प्रवह” नामक प्रथम वायु है

English

Then it was rightly set going by ascetic twice-born in word, meaning and reason; this was born of the first creation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आवटहो नाम संवाति द्वितीय: श्वसनो नदन्

English

That scripture, adorned from the beginning with the sound of Om, was formed by the sages where that merciful one was.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अन्तर्देहेषु चोदानं यं वदन्ति मनीषिण: उद्धृत्याददते चापो जीमूते भ्यो5म्बरेडनिल:

English

Then the blessed one, pleased, unseen, in a body not shown, the Supreme Person, spoke to all those sages:

हिन्दी अर्थ

उद्वहो नाम बंहिष्ठस्तृतीय: स सदागति:

English

"This excellent work of a hundred thousand verses has been made, by which dharma proceeds for the whole system of the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वर्षमोक्षकृतारम्भास्ते भवन्ति घनाघना: रक्षणार्थाय सम्भूता मेघत्वमुपयान्ति च

English

It will be the source in action and in withdrawal, accepted by the Rig, Yajus and Saman, and likewise by the Atharvangirasa.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चतुर्थ: संवहो नाम वायु: स गिरिमर्दन:

English

Thus I have made as authority Brahma, born of my grace, and Rudra, born of anger, brahmanas, and you the natures,

हिन्दी अर्थ

वायुना सहिता मेघास्ते भवन्ति बलाहका: पजञ्चम: स महावेगो विवहो नाम मारुत:

English

the sun and moon, wind, earth, water and fire, and all the hosts of stars and whatever is called a being.

हिन्दी अर्थ

षष्ठ: परिवहो नाम स वायुर्जयतां वर: यस्य वर्त्मनुवर्तेते मृत्युवैवस्वतावुभौ

English

They abide in their offices as their own, the proclaimers of Brahman; all are authority, and so this supreme scripture.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ध्यानाभ्यासाभिरामाणां योडमृतत्वाय कल्पते

English

This, my teaching, will be authority; from it Manu Svayambhuva himself will teach dharmas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

परावहो नाम परो वायु: स दुरतिक्रम: अनारतं ते संवान्ति सर्वगा: सर्वधारिण:

English

When Ushanas and Brihaspati are born, they will teach a scripture drawn from your minds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निरन्तर बहते और सबको धारण करते हैं

English

When the Svayambhuva dharmas, the scripture made by Ushanas, and Brihaspati's teaching have spread in the worlds,

हिन्दी अर्थ

कम्पित: सहसा तेन वायुनातिप्रवायता वायोर्वायुभयं हाक्तं ब्रह्म तत्पीडितं भवेत्

English

then this scripture made by you, the protector of people Vasu will receive from Brihaspati, best of the twice-born.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नामाष्टाविंशत्यधिकत्रिशततमो ध्याय:

English

That king, formed by me, will be my devotee, and by that scripture will do all rites in the worlds.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शुकं स्वाध्यायनिरतं वेदार्थान् वक्तुमीप्सितान् अर्घ्यपूर्वेण विधिना वेदोक्तेना भ्यपूजयत्

English

This is the scripture named the best of all scriptures; this is beneficial, righteous, glorious and excellent.

हिन्दी अर्थ

केन त्वां श्रेयसा वत्स योजयामीति हृष्टवत्

English

By its practice you will have offspring, and that king Vasu will be great and joined with prosperity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तुम्हें किस श्रेष्ठ वस्तुकी प्राप्ति कराऊँ?” यह बात उन्होंने बड़े हर्षके साथ कही अस्मिल्लोके हितं यत् स्यात् तेन मां योक्तुमहसि

English

When that king has died, this eternal scripture will vanish; that is true; this I have told you."

हिन्दी अर्थ

कल्याणका साधन हो, उसीका मुझे उपदेश देनेकी कृपा करें”

English

Having said only this, the unseen Supreme Person dismissed all the sages and departed to some direction.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दुःख नहीं है और त्यागके सदृश कोई सुख नहीं है

English

Then those fathers of the world, thinking of the good of all the world, set going that eternal scripture, the source of dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सद्वृत्ति: समुदाचार: श्रेय एतदनुत्तमम् सदाचारका पालन करना--यही सर्वोत्तम श्रेय (कल्याण)-का साधन है

English

When Angirasa was born, in the first-ordained age, having established the scripture with its limbs and Upanishads in Brihaspati,

हिन्दी अर्थ

नालं स दुःखमोक्षाय संयोगो दुःखलक्षणम्

English

they went to the place they wished, resolved on austerity, being the promoters of all dharmas by supporting all the worlds.