Chapter 12.287

Verse 1 View Details

पुनरेव तु पप्रच्छ जनको मिथिलाधिपः । पराशरं महात्मानं धर्मे परमनिश्चयम् ॥

Daksha said Once again Janaka, the king of Mithila, asked the great Parashara gifted with certain knowledge regarding all duties.

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Verse 2 View Details

किं श्रेयः का गतिर्ब्रह्मन्किं कृतं न विनश्यति । क्व गतो न निवर्तेत तन्मे ब्रूहि महामुने ॥

Janaka said What yields good? What is the best path (for living creatures)? What is that which being done is never destroyed? What is that spot going where one has not to return? Tell me all this, O you of great intelligence.

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Verse 3 View Details

असङ्गः श्रेयसो मूलं ज्ञानं ज्ञानगतिः परा । चीर्णं तपो न प्रणश्येद्वापः क्षेत्रे न नश्यति ॥

Parashara said Dissociation is the root of what is good. Knowledge is the greatest path. Penances practised are never destroyed. Gifts also, made to worthy persons, are not lost.

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Verse 4 View Details

छित्त्वाधर्ममयं पाशं यदा धर्मेऽभिरज्यते । दत्त्वाभयकृतं दानं तदा सिद्धिमवाप्नुयात् ॥

When one, snapping the fetters of sin, begins to take pleasure in virtue, and when one makes that highest of all gifts, viz., the promise of all harmlessness to all creatures, then does one acquire success.

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Verse 5 View Details

यो ददाति सहस्राणि गवामश्वशतानि च । अभयं सर्वभूतेभ्यस्तद्दानमतिवर्तते ॥

He who gives away thousands of kine and hundreds of horses, and who promises harmlessness to all creatures receives in return the promise of harmlessness from all.

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Verse 6 View Details

वसन्विषयमध्येऽपि न वसत्येव बुद्धिमान् । संवसत्येव दुर्बुद्धिरसत्सु विषयेष्वपि ॥

One may live in the midst of all sorts or riches and cnjoyment, yet, if blessed with intelligence, one does not live in them; while he who is shorn of intelligence lives wholly in objects of enjoyment which unsubstantial.

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Verse 7 View Details

नाधर्मः श्लिष्यते प्राज्ञमापः पुष्करपर्णवत् । अप्राज्ञमधिकं पापं श्लिष्यते जतु काष्ठवत् ॥

Sin cannot attach to a wise man as water cannot drench the leaves of the lotus. Sin sticks more firmly to him who is without attachment as lac and wood stick firmly to each other.

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Verse 8 View Details

नाधर्मः कारणापेक्षी कर्तारमभिमुञ्चति । कर्ता खलु यथाकालं तत्सर्वमभिपद्यते । न भिद्यन्ते कृतात्मान आत्मप्रत्ययदर्शिनः ॥

Sin, which cannot be dissipated except by endurance of its fruits, never leaves the doer. The doer, when the time comes, has to suffer the consequences thereof. They, however, who are of purified souls and who realise the cxistence of Brahma, are never afflicted by the fruits of their deeds. are even

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Verse 9 View Details

बुद्धिकर्मेन्द्रियाणां हि प्रमत्तो यो न बुध्यते । शुभाशुभेषु सक्तात्मा प्राप्नोति सुमहद्भयम् ॥

Careless in about one's senses of knowledge and of action, one who is not conscious of his wicked deeds, and whose heart is attached to both good and bad, becomes afflicted with great fear.

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Verse 10 View Details

वीतरागो जितक्रोधः सम्यग्भवति यः सदा । विषये वर्तमानोऽपि न स पापेन युज्यते ॥

One who at all times becomes entirely freed from attachments and who completely subdues the passion of anger, is never sullied by sin even if he lives in the enjoyment of worldly objects.

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Verse 11 View Details

मर्यादायां धर्मसेतुर्निबद्धो नैव सीदति । पुष्टस्रोत इवायत्तः स्फीतो भवति संचयः ॥

As a dyke set across a river, if not washed away, makes the waters thereof to swell up, so the man who, without being attached to objects of pleasure, creates the dyke of virtue whose materials consist of the limitations set down in the scriptures, has never to wane away. On the other hand, his merits and penances, increase.

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Verse 12 View Details

यथा भानुगतं तेजो मणिः शुद्धः समाधिना । आदत्ते राजशार्दूल तथा योगः प्रवर्तते ॥

As the pure gem absorbs and attracts to itself, according to the natural law, the rays of the Sun, so, O foremost of kings, does Yoga proceed by help of rapt attention.

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Verse 13 View Details

यथा तिलानामिह पुष्पसंश्रया;त्पृथक्पृथग्याति गुणोऽतिसौम्यताम् । तथा नराणां भुवि भावितात्मनां; यथाश्रयं सत्त्वगुणः प्रवर्तते ॥

As sesame seeds, for being always with sweet-scented flowers, become in respect of quality very sweet, so the quality of Goodness arises in men proportionate to the extent of their association with persons of purified souls.

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Verse 14 View Details

जहाति दारानिहते न संपदः; सदश्वयानं विविधाश्च याः क्रियाः । त्रिविष्टपे जातमतिर्यदा नर;स्तदास्य बुद्धिर्विषयेषु भिद्यते ॥

When one becomes desirous of living in heaven, he abandons his wives and riches and rank and vehicles and various sorts of good deeds. indeed, when one gets such a bent of mind, his understanding is said to be dissociated from the objects of the senses.

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Verse 15 View Details

प्रसक्तबुद्धिर्विषयेषु यो नरो; यो बुध्यते ह्यात्महितं कदा च न । स सर्वभावानुगतेन चेतसा; नृपामिषेणेव झषो विकृष्यते ॥

That man who, with understanding attached to the objects of the senses, becomes blind to what is for his real well-beings, is dragged by his heart which runs after all earthly objects, like a fish by the bait of meat.

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Verse 16 View Details

संघातवान्मर्त्यलोकः परस्परमपाश्रितः । कदलीगर्भनिःसारो नौरिवाप्सु निमज्जति ॥

Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another. They are weak like the pith of the banana plant. They sink in the world's ocean like a boat.

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Verse 17 View Details

न धर्मकालः पुरुषस्य निश्चितो; न चापि मृत्युः पुरुषं प्रतीक्षते । क्रिया हि धर्मस्य सदैव शोभना; यदा नरो मृत्युमुखेऽभिवर्तते ॥

There is no fixed time for the acquisition of virtue. Death waits for no man. When man is constantly running towards the jaws of Death, the doing of pious deeds is proper at all times.

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Verse 18 View Details

यथान्धः स्वगृहे युक्तो ह्यभ्यासादेव गच्छति । तथा युक्तेन मनसा प्राज्ञो गच्छति तां गतिम् ॥

Like a blind man who, with attention, can move about his own house, the wise man, with mind fixed on Yoga, can proceed along the road.

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Verse 19 View Details

मरणं जन्मनि प्रोक्तं जन्म वै मरणाश्रितम् । अविद्वान्मोक्षधर्मेषु बद्धो भ्रमति चक्रवत् ॥

It has been said that death originates from birth. Birth is subject to the control of death. One unacquainted with the course of the duties of Liberation revolves like a wheel between birth and death, unable to free himself from that fate.

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Verse 20 View Details

यथा मृणालोऽनुगतमाशु मुञ्चति कर्दमम् । तथात्मा पुरुषस्येह मनसा परिमुच्यते । मनः प्रणयतेऽऽत्मानं स एनमभियुञ्जति ॥

As the lotus stalk quickly leaves the mire attached to it, so the Soul can quickly renounce the mind.

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Verse 21 View Details

परार्थे वर्तमानस्तु स्वकार्यं योऽभिमन्यते । इन्द्रियार्थेषु सक्तः सन्स्वकार्यात्परिहीयते ॥

Engaged amid the objects of the senses, one who considers such engagement to be his employment falls away from his true employment on account of such devotion to those objects.

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Verse 22 View Details

अधस्तिर्यग्गतिं चैव स्वर्गे चैव परां गतिम् । प्राप्नोति स्वकृतैरात्मा प्राज्ञस्येहेतरस्य च ॥

The soul of the wise man acquires, through its pious deeds, a state of great happiness in heaven, while that of the man who is not endued with wisdom sinks very low or is born among intermediate creatures.

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Verse 23 View Details

मृन्मये भाजने पक्वे यथा वै न्यस्यते द्रवः । तथा शरीरं तपसा तप्तं विषयमश्नुते ॥

As a liquid substance, if kept in a baked earthen pot, does not escape therefrom but remains undiminished similarly, one's body with which one had practised penances enjoys (without rejecting) all objects of pleasure.

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Verse 24 View Details

विषयानश्नुते यस्तु न स भोक्ष्यत्यसंशयम् । यस्तु भोगांस्त्यजेदात्मा स वै भोक्तुं व्यवस्यति ॥

Verily, that man who enjoys earthly objects can never be liberated. That man, however, who renounces such objects, succeeds in enjoying great happiness hereafter.

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Verse 25 View Details

नीहारेण हि संवीतः शिश्नोदरपरायणः । जात्यन्ध इव पन्थानमावृतात्मा न बुध्यते ॥

Like one suffering from blindness and, therefore, incapable of seeing his way, the sensualist, with soul confined in an opaque case, seems to be surrounded by a mist and cannot see (the true object).

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Verse 26 View Details

वणिग्यथा समुद्राद्वै यथार्थं लभते धनम् । तथा मर्त्यार्णवे जन्तोः कर्मविज्ञानतो गतिः ॥

As merchants, going across the sea, make profits according to their capital, so creatures, in this world of men, attain to ends proportionate to their respective deeds.

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Verse 27 View Details

अहोरात्रमये लोके जरारूपेण संचरन् । मृत्युर्ग्रसति भूतानि पवनं पन्नगो यथा ॥

Like a snake devouring air, Death walks in this world made up of days and nights in the form of Decrepitude and devours all ceatures.

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Verse 28 View Details

स्वयं कृतानि कर्माणि जातो जन्तुः प्रपद्यते । नाकृतं लभते कश्चित्किंचिदत्र प्रियाप्रियम् ॥

A creature, when born, enjoys or suffers the fruits of deeds done by him in his pristine lives. There is nothing agreeable or disagreeable which one enjoys or suffers without its being the result of the deeds one has done in his previous lives.

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Verse 29 View Details

शयानं यान्तमासीनं प्रवृत्तं विषयेषु च । शुभाशुभानि कर्माणि प्रपद्यन्ते नरं सदा ॥

Whether lying or proceeding, whether sitting idly or engaged in his business, in whatever state a man may be, his pristine deeds good or bad, always approach him.

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Verse 30 View Details

न ह्यन्यत्तीरमासाद्य पुनस्तर्तुं व्यवस्यति । दुर्लभो दृश्यते ह्यस्य विनिपातो महार्णवे ॥

One who has gone to the other end of the ocean, wishes not to cross the sea for returning to the bank whence he had sailed.

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Verse 31 View Details

यथा भारावसक्ता हि नौर्महाम्भसि तन्तुना । तथा मनोऽभियोगाद्वै शरीरं प्रतिकर्षति ॥

As the fisherman, when he wishes, raises with the help of his chord his boat sunk in the waters, similarly the mind by the help of Yoga contemplation, raises individual Soul sunk in the world's ocean and unliberated from consciousness of body.

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यथा | भार + अवसञ्ज् | हि | नौर् | महत् + अम्भस् | तन्तुना
तथा | मनो | ऽभियोगाद् | वै | शरीरं | प्रतिकर्षति

Verse 32 View Details

यथा समुद्रमभितः संस्यूताः सरितोऽपराः । तथाद्या प्रकृतिर्योगादभिसंस्यूयते सदा ॥

As all rivers running towards the ocean, join it, so the mind, when engaged in Yoga, becomes united with primal Nature.

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Verse 33 View Details

स्नेहपाशैर्बहुविधैरासक्तमनसो नराः । प्रकृतिस्था विषीदन्ति जले सैकतवेश्मवत् ॥

Men whose minds become fettered by various bonds of affection, and who are sunk in ignorance, meet with destruction like houses of sand in water.

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Verse 34 View Details

शरीरगृहसंस्थस्य शौचतीर्थस्य देहिनः । बुद्धिमार्गप्रयातस्य सुखं त्विह परत्र च ॥

That embodied creature who considers his body as only a house and purity as its sacred water, and who walks along the road of the understanding, acquires happiness both in this world and the next.

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Verse 35 View Details

विस्तराः क्लेशसंयुक्ताः संक्षेपास्तु सुखावहाः । परार्थं विस्तराः सर्वे त्यागमात्महितं विदुः ॥

One who walks along the road recommended by the understanding acquires happiness both in this world and the next. Many of them are fraught with misery; while the Few yield happiness. Fruits represented by Nescience form the Many. Renunciation yields the soul's happiness.

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Verse 36 View Details

संकल्पजो मित्रवर्गो ज्ञातयः कारणात्मकाः । भार्या दासाश्च पुत्राश्च स्वमर्थमनुयुञ्जते ॥

One's friends who originate from his determination, and one's kinsmen whose attachment is due to selfish reasons, one's wives and sons and servants only devour his riches.

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Verse 37 View Details

न माता न पिता किंचित्कस्यचित्प्रतिपद्यते । दानपथ्योदनो जन्तुः स्वकर्मफलमश्नुते ॥

Neither the mother, nor the father, can confer the slightest benefit upon him in the next world. Gifts form the diet upon which he can live. Indeed, one is compelled to enjoy the fruits of his own deeds.

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Verse 38 View Details

माता पुत्रः पिता भ्राता भार्या मित्रजनस्तथा । अष्टापदपदस्थाने त्वक्षमुद्रेव न्यस्यते ॥

The mother, the son, the father, the brother, the wife, and friends, are like lines drawn with gold by the side of gold itself.

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Verse 39 View Details

सर्वाणि कर्माणि पुरा कृतानि; शुभाशुभान्यात्मनो यान्ति जन्तोः । उपस्थितं कर्मफलं विदित्वा; बुद्धिं तथा चोदयतेऽन्तरात्मा ॥

All acts, good and bad, done in pristine lives, visit the doer. Knowing that everything enjoys or suffers at present is the outcome of his pristine deeds, the soul makes the understanding move on different directions.

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Verse 40 View Details

व्यवसायं समाश्रित्य सहायान्योऽधिगच्छति । न तस्य कश्चिदारम्भः कदाचिदवसीदति ॥

Depending on earnest endeavour and equipped with proper aids, he who undertakes to accomplish his tasks never meets with failure.

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Verse 41 View Details

अद्वैधमनसं युक्तं शूरं धीरं विपश्चितम् । न श्रीः संत्यजते नित्यमादित्यमिव रश्मयः ॥

As the rays of light never abandon the Sun, so prosperity never leaves him who has firm faith.

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Verse 42 View Details

आस्तिक्यव्यवसायाभ्यामुपायाद्विस्मयाद्धिया । यमारभत्यनिन्द्यात्मा न सोऽर्थः परिसीदति ॥

That act which a man of pure soul does with faith and earnestness, with the help of proper means, without pride, and with intelligence, becomes never lost.

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Verse 43 View Details

सर्वः स्वानि शुभाशुभानि नियतं कर्माणि जन्तुः स्वयं; गर्भात्संप्रतिपद्यते तदुभयं यत्तेन पूर्वं कृतम् । मृत्युश्चापरिहारवान्समगतिः कालेन विच्छेदिता; दारोश्चूर्णमिवाश्मसारविहितं कर्मान्तिकं प्रापयेत् ॥

A creature obtains from the very time of his residence in the mother's womb all his own acts good and bad that were acquired by him in his pristine lives. Death, which is irresistible, helped by Time which encompasses the destruction of life, takes all creatures to their end like wind scattering the dust of sawed timber.

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Verse 44 View Details

स्वरूपतामात्मकृतं च विस्तरं; कुलान्वयं द्रव्यसमृद्धिसंचयम् । नरो हि सर्वो लभते यथाकृतं; शुभाशुभेनात्मकृतेन कर्मणा ॥

Through acts good and bad done by himself in his pristine lives, man acquires gold and animals, and wives, and children, and honour of birth, and costly possessions, and his entire affluence.

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Verse 45 View Details

इत्युक्तो जनको राजन्यथातथ्यं मनीषिणा । श्रुत्वा धर्मविदां श्रेष्ठः परां मुदमवाप ह ॥

Bhishma continued Thus addressed agreeably to the truth by the sage, Janaka, that foremost of pious men, O king, heard everything the Rishi said and acquired great happiness from it.

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