Chapter 12.19

Verse 1 View Details

वेदाहं तात शास्त्राणि अपराणि पराणि च । उभयं वेदवचनं कुरु कर्म त्यजेति च ॥

Yudhishthira said I know both the Vedas and the scriptures that lead to the attainment of Brahma. In the Vedas there are both kinds of precepts, viz., those that preach action and those that preach the renouncement of action,

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Verse 2 View Details

आकुलानि च शास्त्राणि हेतुभिश्चित्रितानि च । निश्चयश्चैव यन्मात्रो वेदाहं तं यथाविधि ॥

The scriptures are conflicting and their conclusions are based upon reasons. The truth of the mantras is duly known to me.

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त्वं तु केवलमस्त्रज्ञो वीरव्रतमनुष्ठितः । शास्त्रार्थं तत्त्वतो गन्तुं न समर्थः कथंचन ॥

You are conversant only with weapons and the practices of heroes. You are unable to understand correctly the meaning of the scriptures.

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Verse 4 View Details

शास्त्रार्थसूक्ष्मदर्शी यो धर्मनिश्चयकोविदः । तेनाप्येवं न वाच्योऽहं यदि धर्मं प्रपश्यसि ॥

If you were really acquainted with duty, then you could have understood that words like these ought not to have been addressed to me by one possessing the true knowledge of the scriptures and acquainted with the truths of religion.

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शास्त्र + अर्थ + सूक्ष्म + दर्शिन् | यो | धर्म + निश्चय + कोविद
तद् + अपि + एवम् | न | वाच्यो | ऽहं | यदि | धर्मं | प्रपश्यसि

Verse 5 View Details

भ्रातृसौहृदमास्थाय यदुक्तं वचनं त्वया । न्याय्यं युक्तं च कौन्तेय प्रीतोऽहं तेन तेऽर्जुन ॥

What, however, you have said to me out of fraternal affection, has been fit and proper, O son of Kunti. I am, therefore, gratified with thee, O Arjuna.

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Verse 6 View Details

युद्धधर्मेषु सर्वेषु क्रियाणां नैपुणेषु च । न त्वया सदृशः कश्चित्त्रिषु लोकेषु विद्यते ॥

There is no one equal to you in the three worlds in all duties connected with battle and in skill in various kinds of acts,

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धर्मसूक्ष्मं तु यद्वाक्यं तत्र दुष्प्रतरं त्वया । धनंजय न मे बुद्धिमभिशङ्कितुमर्हसि ॥

You are, therefore, competent to speak of the niceties of those subjects, that are not understood by others. You should not, however, O Dhananjaya, doubt my intelligence.

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धर्म + सूक्ष्म | तु | यद् | वाक्यं | तत्र | दुष्प्रतरं | त्वया
धनंजय | न | मे | बुद्धिम् | अभिशङ्कितुम् | अर्हसि

Verse 8 View Details

युद्धशास्त्रविदेव त्वं न वृद्धाः सेवितास्त्वया । समासविस्तरविदां न तेषां वेत्सि निश्चयम् ॥

You are, a master of the science of battle, but you have never waited upon the aged. You know not the conclusions arrived at by those that have studied the subject briefly and fully. The conclusion of intelligent men who want salvation, is that of ascetic penances, renunciation, and knowledge of Brahma, the second is superior to the first, and the third is superior to the second.

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Verse 9 View Details

तपस्त्यागो विधिरिति निश्चयस्तात धीमताम् । परं परं ज्याय एषां सैषा नैःश्रेयसी गतिः ॥

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न त्वेतन्मन्यसे पार्थ न ज्यायोऽस्ति धनादिति । अत्र ते वर्तयिष्यामि यथा नैतत्प्रधानतः ॥

Your conclusion, that there is nothing superior to wealth, is a mistake. I will convince you of it, so that you may not again regard wealth in that light.

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तपःस्वाध्यायशीला हि दृश्यन्ते धार्मिका जनाः । ऋषयस्तपसा युक्ता येषां लोकाः सनातनाः ॥

All righteous men are seen to be devoted to ascetic penances and the study of the Vedas, The Rishis also, that have many eternal regions for them, enjoy the merit of penances.

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Verse 12 View Details

अजातश्मश्रवो धीरास्तथान्ये वनवासिनः । अनन्ता अधना एव स्वाध्यायेन दिवं गताः ॥

Others possessed equanimity of soul, having no enemies, and dwelling in the forest have, through penances and study of the Vedas, proceeded to heaven.

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Verse 13 View Details

उत्तरेण तु पन्थानमार्या विषयनिग्रहात् । अबुद्धिजं तमस्त्यक्त्वा लोकांस्त्यागवतां गताः ॥

By controlling desire for worldly objects and casting off the darkness of sin, pious men proceed northward to the regions reserved for those who practise Renunciation.

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दक्षिणेन तु पन्थानं यं भास्वन्तं प्रपश्यसि । एते क्रियावतां लोका ये श्मशानानि भेजिरे ॥

The path that lies to the south and leads to regions of light is reserved for men devoted to action. These are acquired by persons subject to birth and death.

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Verse 15 View Details

अनिर्देश्या गतिः सा तु यां प्रपश्यन्ति मोक्षिणः । तस्मात्त्यागः प्रधानेष्टः स तु दुःखः प्रवेदितुम् ॥

That end, however, which persons who wishing to have salvation cannot be described. Yoga is the best means for attaining to it. It is not easy to explain it.

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अनुसृत्य तु शास्त्राणि कवयः समवस्थिताः । अपीह स्यादपीह स्यात्सारासारदिदृक्षया ॥

Those that are learned live, meditating on the scriptures for finding out what is unreal. They, however, jump at this and that in the belief that the object of their search exists in this and that.

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Verse 17 View Details

वेदवादानतिक्रम्य शास्त्राण्यारण्यकानि च । विपाट्य कदलीस्कन्धं सारं ददृशिरे न ते ॥

Having studied, however, the Vedas the Aranyakas, and the other scriptures, they miss the real like men failing to find solid timber in an uprooted Banana plant.

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Verse 18 View Details

अथैकान्तव्युदासेन शरीरे पञ्चभौतिके । इच्छाद्वेषसमायुक्तमात्मानं प्राहुरिङ्गितैः ॥

There are some who, disbelieving in its oneness, consider the Soul, dwelling in the physical body consisting of the five elements, possessing the attributes of desire and hatred.

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Verse 19 View Details

अग्राह्यश्चक्षुषा सोऽपि अनिर्देश्यं च तद्गिरा । कर्महेतुपुरस्कारं भूतेषु परिवर्तते ॥

Unseen by the eye, highly subtile, and indescribable by words, it goes on in a round (of rebirths) among the creatures of the Earth, keeping before it that which is the root of action.

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अग्राह्य + चक्षुस् | सो | ऽपि | अनिर्देश्यं | च | तद् | गिरा
कर्मन् + हेतु + पुरस्कार | भूतेषु | परिवर्तते

Verse 20 View Details

कल्याणगोचरं कृत्वा मनस्तृष्णां निगृह्य च । कर्मसंततिमुत्सृज्य स्यान्निरालम्बनः सुखी ॥

Having made the Soul gradually come towards itself which is the root of all bliss, having controlled all mental desires, and having cast off all kinds of action, one may become perfectly independent and happy.

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Verse 21 View Details

अस्मिन्नेवं सूक्ष्मगम्ये मार्गे सद्भिर्निषेविते । कथमर्थमनर्थाढ्यमर्जुन त्वं प्रशंससि ॥

When there is such a path that is followed by the righteous and that is attainable by Knowledge, why, O Arjuna, do you speak highly of wealth which is full of all sorts of dangers?

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Verse 22 View Details

पूर्वशास्त्रविदो ह्येवं जनाः पश्यन्ति भारत । क्रियासु निरता नित्यं दाने यज्ञे च कर्मणि ॥

Men of olden times who were conversant with the scriptures, O Bharata,-men who were always engaged in gifts and sacrifices and action, held this view, O Bharata.

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Verse 23 View Details

भवन्ति सुदुरावर्ता हेतुमन्तोऽपि पण्डिताः । दृढपूर्वश्रुता मूढा नैतदस्तीति वादिनः ॥

There are some fools who, accomplished in the science of logic, deny the existence of the Soul, for the strength of their convictions of a pristine life. It is very difficult to make them accept this truth about final liberation.

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Verse 24 View Details

अमृतस्यावमन्तारो वक्तारो जनसंसदि । चरन्ति वसुधां कृत्स्नां वावदूका बहुश्रुताः ॥

Those wicked men, though highly learned, travel all over the Earth, delivering lectures in assemblies, and deprecating the true doctrine about liberation.

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Verse 25 View Details

यान्वयं नाभिजानीमः कस्ताञ्ज्ञातुमिहार्हति । एवं प्राज्ञान्सतश्चापि महतः शास्त्रवित्तमान् ॥

O Partha, who else can understand what we do not understand? Similarly they do not succeed in knowing those wise and pious persons who are truly great and who are wellread in the scriptures.

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Verse 26 View Details

तपसा महदाप्नोति बुद्ध्या वै विन्दते महत् । त्यागेन सुखमाप्नोति सदा कौन्तेय धर्मवित् ॥

O son of Kunti, men acquainted with truth attain to Brahma by asceticism and intelligence, and great happiness by Renunciation.

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