Chapter 12.171

Verse 1 View Details

ईहमानः समारम्भान्यदि नासादयेद्धनम् । धनतृष्णाभिभूतश्च किं कुर्वन्सुखमाप्नुयात् ॥

Yudhishthira said If any person, desirous of accomplishing acts of charity and sacrifices, fails to find (the necessary) wealth, and thirst of wealth gets the better of him, what course should he pursue to obtain happiness?

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Verse 2 View Details

सर्वसाम्यमनायासः सत्यवाक्यं च भारत । निर्वेदश्चाविवित्सा च यस्य स्यात्स सुखी नरः ॥

He who makes no difference between two opposite agents, viz., pleasure and pain, honour and insult, etc., who never troubles himself for the gratification of his desire for worldly possessions, who observes veracity of speech, who has freed himself from all kinds of attachment, and who has renounced his desire for action, is, O Bharata, a happy man.

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सर्व + साम्य | अनायासः | सत्य + वाक्य | च | भारत
निर्वेद + च + अविवित्सा | च | यस्य | स्यात् | स | सुखी | नरः

Verse 3 View Details

एतान्येव पदान्याहुः पञ्च वृद्धाः प्रशान्तये । एष स्वर्गश्च धर्मश्च सुखं चानुत्तमं सताम् ॥

The ancients say these are the five means by which perfect tranquility or emancipation could be obtained. These are called Heaven. These are Religion. These form the highest happiness.

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Verse 4 View Details

अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम् । निर्वेदान्मङ्किना गीतं तन्निबोध युधिष्ठिर ॥

Bhishma said Regarding it is cited the old discourse between father and son. Listen to it, 0 Yudhishthira.

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Verse 5 View Details

ईहमानो धनं मङ्किर्भग्नेहश्च पुनः पुनः । केनचिद्धनशेषेण क्रीतवान्दम्यगोयुगम् ॥

Manki, desirous of wealth, found that he was doomed to an unending series of disappointinents. With a little remnant of his property hc purchased at last a couple of young bulls with a yoke for training them (to pastoral labour).

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Verse 6 View Details

सुसंबद्धौ तु तौ दम्यौ दमनायाभिनिःसृतौ । आसीनमुष्ट्रं मध्येन सहसैवाभ्यधावताम् ॥

One day the two bulls, properly yoked, were taken out for training (in the fields). Shying at the sight of a camel which was lying down on the road, the animals suddenly ran towards the camel, and fell upon its neck. Enraged at finding the bulls fall upon its neck, the camel, possessed of great speed, got up and ran with full speed, bearing away the two helpless creatures dangling on either side of its neck.

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Verse 7 View Details

तयोः संप्राप्तयोरुष्ट्रः स्कन्धदेशममर्षणः । उत्थायोत्क्षिप्य तौ दम्यौ प्रससार महाजवः ॥

One day the two bulls, properly yoked, were taken out for training (in the fields). Shying at the sight of a camel which was lying down on the road, the animals suddenly ran towards the camel, and fell upon its neck. Enraged at finding the bulls fall upon its neck, the camel, possessed of great speed, got up and ran with full speed, bearing away the two helpless creatures dangling on either side of its neck.

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Verse 8 View Details

ह्रियमाणौ तु तौ दम्यौ तेनोष्ट्रेण प्रमाथिना । म्रियमाणौ च संप्रेक्ष्य मङ्किस्तत्राब्रवीदिदम् ॥

Beholding his two bulls thus carried away by the strong camel, and seeing that they were: on the point of death, Manki began to say,-If it is not ordained by destiny, wealth can never be obtained even by a clever man strenuously and confidently striving and skilfully doing all that is necessary towards the accomplishment of his object.

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Verse 9 View Details

न चैवाविहितं शक्यं दक्षेणापीहितुं धनम् । युक्तेन श्रद्धया सम्यगीहां समनुतिष्ठता ॥

Beholding his two bulls thus carried away by the strong camel, and seeing that they were: on the point of death, Manki began to say,-If it is not ordained by destiny, wealth can never be obtained even by a clever man strenuously and confidently striving and skilfully doing all that is necessary towards the accomplishment of his object.

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Verse 10 View Details

कृतस्य पूर्वं चानर्थैर्युक्तस्याप्यनुतिष्ठतः । इमं पश्यत संगत्या मम दैवमुपप्लवम् ॥

I had, all along, tried by all manner and means, and with great devotion, to acquire riches. But all this misfortune to my property is due to Destiny.

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Verse 11 View Details

उद्यम्योद्यम्य मे दम्यौ विषमेणेव गच्छति । उत्क्षिप्य काकतालीयमुन्माथेनेव जम्बुकः ॥

My bulls are carried away, rising and falling, as the camel is running in the uneven course. This event seems to be an accident like the one brought about by the crow to a ripe fruit while perching on a palmyra free.

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Verse 12 View Details

मणी वोष्ट्रस्य लम्बेते प्रियौ वत्सतरौ मम । शुद्धं हि दैवमेवेदमतो नैवास्ति पौरुषम् ॥

Alas, those dear bulls of mine are dangling on the camel's neck like a couple of gems! This is the result of Destiny alone. Exertion is of no avail in what is due to Chance.

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Verse 13 View Details

यदि वाप्युपपद्येत पौरुषं नाम कर्हिचित् । अन्विष्यमाणं तदपि दैवमेवावतिष्ठते ॥

Or, if the existence of anything like Exertion (as a resulting factor) be admitted, a little more scrutiny would find that Destiny is at the bottom.

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यदि | वा + अपि + उपपद् | पौरुषं | नाम | कर्हिचित्
अन्विष्यमाणं | तद् | अपि | दैवम् | एव + अवस्था

Verse 14 View Details

तस्मान्निर्वेद एवेह गन्तव्यः सुखमीप्सता । सुखं स्वपिति निर्विण्णो निराशश्चार्थसाधने ॥

Therefore, he who is desirous of happiness, should renounce all attachment. He who is indifferent to worldly surroundings, has renounced all desires for acquiring wealth, can sleep happily.

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Verse 15 View Details

अहो सम्यक्शुकेनोक्तं सर्वतः परिमुच्यता । प्रतिष्ठता महारण्यं जनकस्य निवेशनात् ॥

He, it was well-said by Shuka while going to the great forest from his father's house, renouncing everything.

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Verse 16 View Details

यः कामान्प्राप्नुयात्सर्वान्यश्चैनान्केवलांस्त्यजेत् । प्रापणात्सर्वकामानां परित्यागो विशिष्यते ॥

Amongst these two, viz., one who obtains the fruition of all his desires, and one who renounces all desires, the latter, who casts off everything is superior to the first who obtains the fruition of all his desires.

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Verse 17 View Details

नान्तं सर्वविवित्सानां गतपूर्वोऽस्ति कश्चन । शरीरे जीविते चैव तृष्णा मन्दस्य वर्धते ॥

No one could ever attain to the end of desire. Only he who is destitute of knowledge and judgement feels and avidity for protecting his body and life.

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Verse 18 View Details

निवर्तस्व विवित्साभ्यः शाम्य निर्विद्य मामक । असकृच्चासि निकृतो न च निर्विद्यसे तनो ॥

Renounce all desire for action. O my Soul which has become a prey of cupidity, adopt tranquillity by freeling yourself from all worldly attachments. Repeatedly have you been cheated (by phantomis of hope). How is it that you do not still free yourself from attachments?

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Verse 19 View Details

यदि नाहं विनाश्यस्ते यद्येवं रमसे मया । मा मां योजय लोभेन वृथा त्वं वित्तकामुक ॥

If I am not one who deserves to be crushed by you, if I am one with whom you should play in delight, then, O my wealth-coveting Soul, do not induce me towards cupidity.

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Verse 20 View Details

संचितं संचितं द्रव्यं नष्टं तव पुनः पुनः । कदा विमोक्ष्यसे मूढ धनेहां धनकामुक ॥

You have now and again lost your hoarded wealth! O my wealth-covering and foolish Soul, when will you succeed in getting rid of your desire for wealth?

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Verse 21 View Details

अहो नु मम बालिश्यं योऽहं क्रीडनकस्तव । किं नैव जातु पुरुषः परेषां प्रेष्यतामियात् ॥

Shame on my foolishness. I have become a toy of yours. It is thus that one becomes a slave of others.

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अहो | नु | मम | बालिश्यं | यो | ऽहं | क्रीडनक + त्वद्
किं | न + एव | जातु | पुरुषः | परेषां | प्रेष्य + ता | इयात्

Verse 22 View Details

न पूर्वे नापरे जातु कामानामन्तमाप्नुवन् । त्यक्त्वा सर्वसमारम्भान्प्रतिबुद्धोऽस्मि जागृमि ॥

No one born on Earth did ever attain to the end of desire, and no one who will be born hereafter will succeed in attaining to it. Renouncing all acts, I have at last been roused from sleep. I am now awake.

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Verse 23 View Details

नूनं ते हृदयं काम वज्रसारमयं दृधम् । यदनर्थशताविष्टं शतधा न विदीर्यते ॥

Without doubt, O Desire, your heart is hard like that of an adamant, since though affected by a hundred reverses, you do not break into as many fragments.

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Verse 24 View Details

त्यजामि काम त्वां चैव यच्च किंचित्प्रियं तव । तवाहं सुखमन्विच्छन्नात्मन्युपलभे सुखम् ॥

I know you, O Desire, and all those things that are dear to you. Seeking what is dear to you, I shall feel happiness in my own Self.

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Verse 25 View Details

काम जानामि ते मूलं संकल्पात्किल जायसे । न त्वां संकल्पयिष्यामि समूलो न भविष्यसि ॥

O desire, I know your origin. You originate from Will. I shall, therefore, avoid Will. You will then be rooted out.

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Verse 26 View Details

ईहा धनस्य न सुखा लब्ध्वा चिन्ता च भूयसी । लब्धनाशो यथा मृत्युर्लब्धं भवति वा न वा ॥

The desire for wealth can never yield happiness. If acquired, the acquirer feels great anxiety. If lost after acquisition it is felt like death. Again acquisition itself, is very uncertain.

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ईहा | धनस्य | न | सुखा | लब्ध्वा | चिन्ता | च | भूयसी
लभ् + नाश | यथा | मृत्युर् | लब्धं | भवति | वा | न | वा

Verse 27 View Details

परेत्य यो न लभते ततो दुःखतरं नु किम् । न च तुष्यति लब्धेन भूय एव च मार्गति ॥

Wealth cannot be secured by even the surrender of one's person. What can be more painful than this? When acquired, one is never gratified with its quantity, but one continues to hanker after it.

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परेत्य | यो | न | लभते | ततो | दुःखतरं | नु | किम्
न | च | तुष्यति | लब्धेन | भूय | एव | च | मार्गति

Verse 28 View Details

अनुतर्षुल एवार्थः स्वादु गाङ्गमिवोदकम् । मद्विलापनमेतत्तु प्रतिबुद्धोऽस्मि संत्यज ॥

Like the sweet water of the Ganges, riches only enhances one's hankering. It is my destruction. I am now awakened. Do you, O desire, leave me.

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Verse 29 View Details

य इमं मामकं देहं भूतग्रामः समाश्रितः । स यात्वितो यथाकामं वसतां वा यथासुखम् ॥

May that desire which resides in this my body,-this compound of (five), elements,-go wherever it likes and live happily wherever it likes.

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Verse 30 View Details

न युष्मास्विह मे प्रीतिः कामलोभानुसारिषु । तस्मादुत्सृज्य सर्वान्वः सत्यमेवाश्रयाम्यहम् ॥

I do not like you all who are not of the Soul, for you bring on Desire and Cupidity! Forsaking all of you I shall seek refuge with the quality of Goodness.

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Verse 31 View Details

सर्वभूतान्यहं देहे पश्यन्मनसि चात्मनः । योगे बुद्धिं श्रुते सत्त्वं मनो ब्रह्मणि धारयन् ॥

Seeing all creatures in my own body and my own mind, and devoting my reason to Yoga, my life to the instructions of the wise, and soul to Brahma, I shall happily rove through the world, without attachment and without calamities of any kind, so that you may not be able to plunge me again into such sorrows.

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Verse 32 View Details

विहरिष्याम्यनासक्तः सुखी लोकान्निरामयः । यथा मा त्वं पुनर्नैवं दुःखेषु प्रणिधास्यसि ॥

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Verse 33 View Details

त्वया हि मे प्रणुन्नस्य गतिरन्या न विद्यते । तृष्णाशोकश्रमाणां हि त्वं काम प्रभवः सदा ॥

If I continue to be unruffled by you, O desire, I shall necessarily be without a path (by which to effect my salvation). You O desire, are always the parent of thirst, of sorrow, and of fatigue and toil.

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त्वया | हि | मे | प्रणुन्नस्य | गतिर् | अन्या | न | विद्यते
तृष्णा + शोक + श्रम | हि | त्वं | काम | प्रभवः | सदा

Verse 34 View Details

धननाशोऽधिकं दुःखं मन्ये सर्वमहत्तरम् । ज्ञातयो ह्यवमन्यन्ते मित्राणि च धनच्युतम् ॥

I consider the sorrow that one feels at the loss of wealth is proportionately greater than what one feels under any other adverse circumstance. Relatives and friends forsake him who has lost his wealth.

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Verse 35 View Details

अवज्ञानसहस्रैस्तु दोषाः कष्टतराधने । धने सुखकला या च सापि दुःखैर्विधीयते ॥

With all sorts of humiliation numbering by thousands, there are many other faults in property which are even much more painful. On the other hand, the very small happiness that resides in wealth is mingled with pain and sorrow.

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Verse 36 View Details

धनमस्येति पुरुषं पुरा निघ्नन्ति दस्यवः । क्लिश्यन्ति विविधैर्दण्डैर्नित्यमुद्वेजयन्ति च ॥

Robbers kill, in the sight of all, the person who has riches, or torment him with all sorts of severity, or put him into fright now and again.

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Verse 37 View Details

मन्दलोलुपता दुःखमिति बुद्धं चिरान्मया । यद्यदालम्बसे काम तत्तदेवानुरुध्यसे ॥

At last, after a long time, I have realised that the desire for wealth is attended with sorrow. Whatever the object, O desire, upon which you set your heart, you force me to follow it! You are without judgement. You are a fool. You are difficult of being satisfied. You can never be contented. You burn like fire.

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मन्द + लोलुप + ता | दुःखम् | इति | बुद्धं | चिरात् + मद्
यद् | यद् | आलम्बसे | काम | तत् | तद् | एव + अनुरुध्

Verse 38 View Details

अतत्त्वज्ञोऽसि बालश्च दुस्तोषोऽपूरणोऽनलः । नैव त्वं वेत्थ सुलभं नैव त्वं वेत्थ दुर्लभम् ॥

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Verse 39 View Details

पातालमिव दुष्पूरो मां दुःखैर्योक्तुमिच्छसि । नाहमद्य समावेष्टुं शक्यः काम पुनस्त्वया ॥

You do not enquire when following the object you pursue, whether it is easy or difficult of attainment. Like the nether region you cannot be filled to the brim. You wish to cast into grief. From this day, O desire, I am incapable of living with you.

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Verse 40 View Details

निर्वेदमहमासाद्य द्रव्यनाशाद्यदृच्छया । निर्वृतिं परमां प्राप्य नाद्य कामान्विचिन्तये ॥

I who was disappointed, at first, at the loss of my property, have now attained to the high state of perfect freedom from attachments. At this moment I no longer think of you and your train. I

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Verse 41 View Details

अतिक्लेशान्सहामीह नाहं बुध्याम्यबुद्धिमान् । निकृतो धननाशेन शये सर्वाङ्गविज्वरः ॥

I had, before this, felt great misery on your account. I do not (now) regard myself as devoid of intelligence. Having taken to Renunciation on account of the loss of my property, I now can .rest, being freed from every kind of fever.

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Verse 42 View Details

परित्यजामि काम त्वां हित्वा सर्वमनोगतीः । न त्वं मया पुनः काम नस्योतेनेव रंस्यसे ॥

I cast you off, O Desire, with all the passions of my heart. You shall not, again, find any place in me nor shall you sport with me.

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Verse 43 View Details

क्षमिष्येऽक्षममाणानां न हिंसिष्ये च हिंसितः । द्वेष्यमुक्तः प्रियं वक्ष्याम्यनादृत्य तदप्रियम् ॥

I shall forgive them who will slander or speak ill of me. I shall not harm even when I am injured. If anybody from aversion speaks disparagingly of me, without caring for those disagrccable words shall greet him courteously. With a contented heart and with an easy mind, I shall always live upon what I may obtain for myself.

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Verse 44 View Details

तृप्तः स्वस्थेन्द्रियो नित्यं यथालब्धेन वर्तयन् । न सकामं करिष्यामि त्वामहं शत्रुमात्मनः ॥

I shall not gratify those wishes of yours which are inimical to me. Indifference to worldly concerns, renunciation, contentment, tranquillity, veracity, self-control, forgiveness, and universal mercy, have now come to be my qualifications.

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Verse 45 View Details

निर्वेदं निर्वृतिं तृप्तिं शान्तिं सत्यं दमं क्षमाम् । सर्वभूतदयां चैव विद्धि मां शरणागतम् ॥

I shall not gratify those wishes of yours which are inimical to me. Indifference to worldly concerns, renunciation, contentment, tranquillity, veracity, self-control, forgiveness, and universal mercy, have now come to be my qualifications.

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Verse 46 View Details

तस्मात्कामश्च लोभश्च तृष्णा कार्पण्यमेव च । त्यजन्तु मां प्रतिष्ठन्तं सत्त्वस्थो ह्यस्मि सांप्रतम् ॥

Therefore, let Desire, Cupidity, Thirst, and Miserliness, bid me aided. I have now taken to the path of Goodness.

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Verse 47 View Details

प्रहाय कामं लोभं च क्रोधं पारुष्यमेव च । नाद्य लोभवशं प्राप्तो दुःखं प्राप्स्याम्यनात्मवान् ॥

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Verse 48 View Details

यद्यत्त्यजति कामानां तत्सुखस्याभिपूर्यते । कामस्य वशगो नित्यं दुःखमेव प्रपद्यते ॥

If objects, of desire, are renounced they become sources of happiness. The man who follows objects of desire is ruined in that pursuit.

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Verse 49 View Details

कामान्व्युदस्य धुनुते यत्किंचित्पुरुषो रजः । कामक्रोधोद्भवं दुःखमह्रीररतिरेव च ॥

Whatever passions arising from Desire are cast off by a person, all come under the category of Passion. Sorrow and shamelessness, as also discontent, all owe their origin to Desire and Wealth.

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Verse 50 View Details

एष ब्रह्मप्रविष्टोऽहं ग्रीष्मे शीतमिव ह्रदम् । शाम्यामि परिनिर्वामि सुखमासे च केवलम् ॥

As in the hot summery a person plunges himself into a cool lake, I have now merged myself into Brahma. I have renounced work. I have extricated myself from grief. Unalloyed happiness has now come to my share.

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एष | ब्रह्मन् + प्रविश् | ऽहं | ग्रीष्मे | शीतम् | इव | ह्रदम्
शाम्यामि | परिनिर्वामि | सुखम् | आसे | च | केवलम्

Verse 51 View Details

यच्च कामसुखं लोके यच्च दिव्यं महत्सुखम् । तृष्णाक्षयसुखस्यैते नार्हतः षोडशीं कलाम् ॥

Neither the happiness which is derived from a gratification of the senses nor that great happiness which one may enjoy in heaven, even comes up to a sixteenth part of the happiness which originates from the destruction of all desire.

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Verse 52 View Details

आत्मना सप्तमं कामं हत्वा शत्रुमिवोत्तमम् । प्राप्यावध्यं ब्रह्मपुरं राजेव स्यामहं सुखी ॥

Laying axe at the root of desire, which with the body makes an aggregate of seven, and which is a bitter foe, I have made my way to the immortal city of Brahma and there shall I pass my days in happiness like a king.

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Verse 53 View Details

एतां बुद्धिं समास्थाय मङ्किर्निर्वेदमागतः । सर्वान्कामान्परित्यज्य प्राप्य ब्रह्म महत्सुखम् ॥

Putting his faith upon such, intelligence, Manki succeeded in freeing himself from attachments, by his self-renunciation and obtained the blissful region of Brahma.

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दम्यनाशकृते मङ्किरमरत्वं किलागमत् । अच्छिनत्काममूलं स तेन प्राप महत्सुखम् ॥

Forsooth, on account of the loss of his two bulls, Manki attained to immortality. In fact, because he laid the axe at the very roots of desire, he succeeded, through that means to obtain for himself supreme happiness.

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Verse 55 View Details

अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम् । गीतं विदेहराजेन जनकेन प्रशाम्यता ॥

Regarding it is mentioned the old story of the speech that a twice-born friend of his, coming to Senajit's court, made to that king.

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Verse 56 View Details

अनन्तं बत मे वित्तं यस्य मे नास्ति किंचन । मिथिलायां प्रदीप्तायां न मे दह्यति किंचन ॥

What the monarch said was,-My wealth is unlimited, At the same time I have nothing. If the whole of (my kingdom) Mithila be reduced to ashes in a conflagration, I shall lose nothing.

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अनन्तं | बत | मे | वित्तं | यस्य | मे | न + अस् | किंचन
मिथिलायां | प्रदीप्तायां | न | मे | दह्यति | किंचन

Verse 57 View Details

अत्रैवोदाहरन्तीमं बोध्यस्य पदसंचयम् । निर्वेदं प्रति विन्यस्तं प्रतिबोध युधिष्ठिर ॥

Once on a time the royal son of Nahusa (Yayati) asked the Rishi Vodhya who had, on account of Rcnunciation, attained to tranquillity of soul and who had a through knowledge of the scriptures. The king said

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Verse 58 View Details

बोध्यं दान्तमृषिं राजा नहुषः पर्यपृच्छत । निर्वेदाच्छान्तिमापन्नं शान्तं प्रज्ञानतर्पितम् ॥

O you of great wisdom, vouchsafe me those instructions which lead to tranquillity. What is that understanding which had enabled you to wander over the world in tranquillity of soul and free yourself from all acts?

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Verse 59 View Details

उपदेशं महाप्राज्ञ शमस्योपदिशस्व मे । कां बुद्धिं समनुध्याय शान्तश्चरसि निर्वृतः ॥

O you of great wisdom, vouchsafe me those instructions which lead to tranquillity. What is that understanding which had enabled you to wander over the world in tranquillity of soul and free yourself from all acts?

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Verse 60 View Details

उपदेशेन वर्तामि नानुशास्मीह कंचन । लक्षणं तस्य वक्ष्येऽहं तत्स्वयं प्रविमृश्यताम् ॥

Vodhya said I follow the principles of others and never thrust inyself as an instructor. I shall, however, give you the outlines of those principles. Reflection will enable you to catch their spirit.

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Verse 61 View Details

पिङ्गला कुररः सर्पः सारङ्गान्वेषणं वने । इषुकारः कुमारी च षडेते गुरवो मम ॥

Pingala, the osprey, the snake, the bee in the forest, the maker of shafts (in the story), and the maiden (in the story),-these six are my preceptors.

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