Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 12.184
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12.184.1
यदि प्राणयते वायुर्वायुरेव विचेष्टते ।
श्वसित्याभाषते चैव तस्माज्जीवो निरर्थकः ॥ १२.१८४.१ ॥
If it is the wind that sustains breath, the wind alone that moves, breathes and speaks, then the living self is purposeless.
12.184.2
यदूष्मभाव आग्नेयो वह्निना पच्यते यदि ।
अग्निर्जरयते चैतत्तस्माज्जीवो निरर्थकः ॥ १२.१८४.२ ॥
If the state of warmth is fiery, is cooked by fire, and fire itself digests it, then the living self is purposeless.
12.184.3
जन्तोः प्रमीयमाणस्य जीवो नैवोपलभ्यते ।
वायुरेव जहात्येनमूष्मभावश्च नश्यति ॥ १२.१८४.३ ॥
In a dying creature the living self is not perceived; the wind alone leaves it, and the state of warmth perishes.
12.184.4
यदि वायुमयो जीवः संश्लेषो यदि वायुना ।
वायुमण्डलवद्दृश्येद्गच्छन्सह मरुद्गणैः ॥ १२.१८४.४ ॥
If the living self is made of wind and joined to the wind, it would be seen like a sphere of wind, going forth together with the host of Maruts.
12.184.5
श्लेष्मं वा यदि वा जीवः सह तेन प्रणश्यति ।
महार्णववियुक्तत्वादन्यत्सलिलभाजनम् ॥ १२.१८४.५ ॥
If the living self perishes together with phlegm, or is like a vessel of water cut off from the great ocean,
12.184.6
यत्क्षिपेत्सलिलं कूपे प्रदीपं वा हुताशने ।
तन्नश्यत्युभयं तद्वज्जीवो वातानलात्मकः ॥ १२.१८४.६ ॥
As water thrown into a well or a lamp thrown into fire both perish, so too the living self, made of wind and fire, perishes.
12.184.7
पञ्च साधारणो ह्यस्मिञ्शरीरे जीवितं कुतः ।
तेषामन्यतरत्यागाच्चतुर्णां नास्ति संग्रहः ॥ १२.१८४.७ ॥
In this body there are five common elements; whence then is life? When any one of them is abandoned, the gathering of the four no longer holds.
12.184.8
नश्यन्त्यापो ह्यनाधाराद्वायुरुच्छ्वासनिग्रहात् ।
नश्यते कोष्ठभेदात्खमग्निर्नश्यत्यभोजनात् ॥ १२.१८४.८ ॥
Water perishes for lack of a container; air perishes when the breath is restrained; space perishes when the belly is ruptured; fire perishes for lack of food.
12.184.9
व्याधिप्राणपरिक्लेशैर्मेदिनी चैव शीर्यते ।
पीडितेऽन्यतमे ह्येषां संघातो याति पञ्चताम् ॥ १२.१८४.९ ॥
By the afflictions of disease and breath the earth also decays; when any one of these is distressed, the combination goes to dissolution into five.
12.184.10
तस्मिन्पञ्चत्वमापन्ने जीवः किमनुधावति ।
किं वेदयति वा जीवः किं शृणोति ब्रवीति च ॥ १२.१८४.१० ॥
When that dissolution into five has come, what does the living self pursue? Or what does the living self perceive? What does it hear, and what does it speak?
12.184.11
एषा गौः परलोकस्थं तारयिष्यति मामिति ।
यो दत्त्वा म्रियते जन्तुः सा गौः कं तारयिष्यति ॥ १२.१८४.११ ॥
"This cow will carry me across, who abide in the other world" — the creature who dies after giving a cow, thinking so: whom will that cow carry across?
12.184.12
गौश्च प्रतिग्रहीता च दाता चैव समं यदा ।
इहैव विलयं यान्ति कुतस्तेषां समागमः ॥ १२.१८४.१२ ॥
When the cow, the recipient, and the giver alike dissolve here, how then can they meet in the other world?
12.184.13
विहगैरुपभुक्तस्य शैलाग्नात्पतितस्य च ।
अग्निना चोपयुक्तस्य कुतः संजीवनं पुनः ॥ १२.१८४.१३ ॥
How can one who has been eaten by birds, has fallen from a mountain peak, and has been consumed by fire come back to life again?
12.184.14
छिन्नस्य यदि वृक्षस्य न मूलं प्रतिरोहति ।
बीजान्यस्य प्ररोहन्ति मृतः क्व पुनरेष्यति ॥ १२.१८४.१४ ॥
If the root of a felled tree does not sprout again, yet its seeds do sprout, where will the dead one return again?
12.184.15
बीजमात्रं पुरा सृष्टं यदेतत्परिवर्तते ।
मृतामृताः प्रणश्यन्ति बीजाद्वीजं प्रवर्तते ॥ १२.१८४.१५ ॥
This world, which was created in the beginning as mere seed, keeps revolving; the dead and the undying perish, and from seed comes seed.