Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 11.6
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11.6.1
अहो खलु महद्दुःखं कृच्छ्रवासं वसत्यसौ ।
कथं तस्य रतिस्तत्र तुष्टिर्वा वदतां वर ॥ ११.६.१ ॥
Alas, indeed he dwells in great sorrow and a hard life. How does he find delight there, or contentment, best of speakers?
11.6.2
स देशः क्वनु यत्रासौ वसते धर्मसङ्कटे ।
कथं वा स विमुच्येत नरस्तस्मान्महाभयात् ॥ ११.६.२ ॥
Where, indeed, is that land in which he dwells in a dilemma of dharma? Or how could that man be freed from that great fear?
11.6.3
एतन्मे सर्वमाचक्ष्व साधु चेष्टामहे तदा ।
कृपा मे महती जाता तस्याभ्युद्धरणेन हि ॥ ११.६.३ ॥
Tell me all of this well, and then we shall strive for it. Great compassion has arisen in me for his rescue.
11.6.4
उपाख्यानमिदं राजन्मोक्षविद्भिरुदाहृतम् ।
सुगतिं विन्दते येन परलोकेषु मानवः ॥ ११.६.४ ॥
This story, O king, was related by the knowers of liberation, by which a man obtains a good destiny in the other worlds.
11.6.5
उच्यते यत्तु कान्तारं महासंसार एव सः ।
वनं दुर्गं हि यच्चैतत्संसारगहनं हि तत् ॥ ११.६.५ ॥
That which is called the wilderness is indeed the great saṃsāra; and this impassable forest is indeed the dense thicket of saṃsāra.
11.6.6
ये च ते कथिता व्याला व्याधयस्ते प्रकीर्तिताः ॥ ११.६.६ ॥
And those that were described as beasts of prey, these have been declared to be diseases.
11.6.7
या सा नारी बृहत्काया अध्यतिष्ठत तत्र वै ।
तामाहुस्तु जरां प्राज्ञा रूपवर्णविनाशिनीम् ॥ ११.६.७ ॥
The large-bodied woman who stood there, the wise call her Jarā, old age, destroyer of form and complexion.
11.6.8
स यस्तु कूपो नृपते स तु देहः शरीरिणाम् ।
यस्तत्र वसतेऽधस्तान्महाहिः काल एव सः।
अन्तकः सर्वभूतानां देहिनां प्राणाहार्यसौ ॥ ११.६.८ ॥
O king, that well is the body of embodied beings. The great serpent that dwells beneath it is indeed Time, the ender of all beings, the taker of the life-breath of the embodied.
11.6.9
कूपमध्ये च या जाता वल्ली यत्र स मानवः ।
प्रोतो ययाऽभवल्लग्नो जीविताशा शरीरिणाम् ॥ ११.६.९ ॥
The creeper that grew in the middle of the well, to which that man clings and by which he hangs, is the hope of life of embodied beings.
11.6.10
स यस्तु कूपपीनाहे तं वृक्षं परिसर्पति ।
षड्वक्त्रः कुञ्जरो राजन्स तु संवत्सरः स्मृतः ॥ ११.६.१० ॥
O king, the six-faced elephant that creeps around that tree at the girth of the well is remembered as the year, saṃvatsara.
11.6.11
मुखानि ऋतवो मासाः पादा द्वादशा कीर्तिताः ।
ये तु वृंक्षं निकृन्तन्ति मूषिकाः पन्नगास्तथा ॥ ११.६.११ ॥
Its faces are the seasons, its feet are declared to be the twelve months. And the mice and serpents that gnaw at that tree are likewise.
11.6.12
रात्र्यहानि तु तान्याहुर्भूतानां परिचिन्तकाः ।
ये ते मधुकरास्तत्र कामास्ते परिकीर्तिताः ॥ ११.६.१२ ॥
Those the reflective thinkers on beings call night and day. And the bees there are declared to be desires.
11.6.13
यास्तु ता बहुशो धाराः स्रवन्ति मधुनिस्रवम् ।
तांस्तु कामरसान्विन्द्याद्यत्र सज्जन्ति मानवाः ॥ ११.६.१३ ॥
Those many streams that flow out honey-oozing — one should know them as the juices of desire, in which men become attached.
11.6.14
एवं संसारचक्रस्य परिवृत्तिं विदुर्बुधाः ।
येन संसारचक्रस्य पाशांश्छिन्दन्ति सर्वथा ॥ ११.६.१४ ॥
Thus the wise know the turning of the wheel of saṃsāra, by which they cut the bonds of the wheel of saṃsāra entirely.