Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 12.242
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12.242.1
अथ चेद्रोचयेदेतदुह्यते मनसा तथा ।
उन्मज्जंश्च निमज्जंश्च ज्ञानवान्प्लववान्भवेत् ॥ १२.२४२.१ ॥
If this pleases you, and you are carried along by the mind in this way, then the wise man, rising and sinking, will possess a raft.
12.242.2
प्रज्ञया निर्मितैर्धीरास्तारयन्त्यबुधान्प्लवैः ।
नाबुधास्तारयन्त्यन्यानात्मानं वा कथंचन ॥ १२.२४२.२ ॥
By rafts built through wisdom, the steadfast carry the unwise across; the unwise cannot carry others, nor themselves, in any way.
12.242.3
छिन्नदोषो मुनिर्योगयुक्तो युञ्जीत द्वादश ।
दशकर्मसुखानर्थानुपायापायनिष्क्रियः ॥ १२.२४२.३ ॥
The sage who has cut off his faults, devoted to yoga, should practise the twelve, remaining inactive toward the gain and loss of things that seem pleasant through the ten actions.
12.242.4
चक्षुराचारसंग्राहैर्मनसा दर्शनेन च ।
यच्छेद्वाङ्भनसी बुद्ध्या य इच्छेज्ज्ञानमुत्तमम् ॥ १२.२४२.४ ॥
One should restrain the eye by restraint of conduct, by the mind, and by seeing; he who desires supreme knowledge should restrain speech and mind by the intellect.
12.242.5
ज्ञानेन यच्छेदात्मानं य इच्छेच्छान्तिमात्मनः ।
एतेषां चेदनुद्रष्टा पुरुषोऽपि सुदारुणः ॥ १२.२४२.५ ॥
He who desires peace of self should restrain the self by knowledge; even if the man who observes these is most terrible.
12.242.6
यदि वा सर्ववेदज्ञो यदि वाऽप्यनृचो द्विजः ।
यदि वा धार्मिको यज्वा यदि वा पापकृत्तमः ॥ १२.२४२.६ ॥
Whether he is a knower of all the Vedas, or a twice-born who does not know the Ṛgveda; whether he is righteous and a sacrificer, or the greatest of sinners.
12.242.7
यदि वा पुरुषव्याघ्रो यदि वैक्लव्यधारणः ।
तरत्येवं महादुर्गं जरामरणसागरम् ॥ १२.२४२.७ ॥
Whether he is a tiger among men, or one who holds firm, free of weakness, thus he crosses the great and difficult ocean of old age and death.
12.242.8
एवं ह्येतेन योगेन युञ्जानो ह्येवमन्ततः ।
अपि जिज्ञासमानोऽपि शब्दब्रह्माऽतिवर्तते ॥ १२.२४२.८ ॥
Thus, joined to this yoga, and thus in the end, even one who desires to know passes beyond the Brahman of sound.
12.242.9
धर्मोपस्थो ह्रीवरूथ उपायापायकूवरः ।
अपानाक्षः प्राणयुगः प्रज्ञायुर्जीववन्धनः ॥ १२.२४२.९ ॥
Dharma is its seat, modesty its armour, means and loss its pole, apāna its axle, prāṇa its yoke, wisdom and life the bonds that tie it to the living self.
12.242.10
चेतनाबन्धुरश्चारुश्चाचारग्रहनेमिमान् ।
दर्शनस्पर्शनवहो घ्राणश्रवणवाहनः ॥ १२.२४२.१० ॥
Consciousness is its frame, and it is beautiful; conduct is the rim of its wheel and the senses its grips; sight and touch are its carriers; smell and hearing are its draught animals.
12.242.11
प्रज्ञानाभिः सर्वतन्त्रप्रतोदो ज्ञानसारथिः ।
क्षेत्रज्ञाधिष्ठितो धीरः श्रद्धादमपुरः सरः ॥ १२.२४२.११ ॥
With wisdom as its driving rods and all the teachings as its goad, with knowledge as its charioteer, seated upon by the knower of the field, steady, led forward by faith and self-restraint.
12.242.12
त्यागरश्म्यनुगः क्षेम्यः शौचगो ध्यानगोतरः ।
जीवयुक्तो रथो दिव्यो ब्रह्मलोके धिराजते ॥ १२.२४२.१२ ॥
Following the reins of renunciation, secure, moving in purity, going by meditation to the far shore, the divine chariot yoked to the living self shines forth in the world of Brahman.
12.242.13
अथ संत्वरमाणस्य रथमेवं युयुक्षतः ।
अक्षरं गन्तुमनसो विधिं वक्ष्यामि शीघ्रगम् ॥ १२.२४२.१३ ॥
Now, for one who hastens and thus yokes the chariot, desiring to go to the imperishable, I shall declare the swift-going method.
12.242.14
सप्त यो धारणाः कृत्स्ना वाग्यतः प्रतिपद्यते ।
पृष्ठतः पार्श्वतश्चान्यास्तावत्यस्ताः प्रधारणाः ॥ १२.२४२.१४ ॥
He who, with speech restrained, attains the seven complete concentrations, also attains as many other supporting concentrations behind and at the sides.
12.242.15
क्रमशः पार्थिवं यच्च वायव्यं खं तथा पयः ।
ज्योतिषो यत्तदैश्वर्यमहंकारस्य बुद्धितः।
अव्यक्तस्य तथैश्वर्यं क्रमशः प्रतिपद्यते ॥ १२.२४२.१५ ॥
In order one attains the lordship of earth, of air, of space, of water, and of fire; from the intellect, the lordship of egoity; and likewise the lordship of the unmanifest.
12.242.16
विक्रमाश्चापि यस्यैते तथा युङ्क्ते स योगतः ।
तथाऽस्य योगयुक्तस्य सिद्धिमात्मनि पश्यतः ॥ १२.२४२.१६ ॥
Such are his powers; he is thus yoked through yoga, and to him yoked in yoga, beholding perfection in his own self.
12.242.17
निर्मुच्यमानः सूक्ष्मत्वाद्रूपाणीमानि पश्यतः ।
शैशिरस्तु यथा धूमः सूक्ष्मः संश्रयते नभः ॥ १२.२४२.१७ ॥
Being freed through subtlety, he beholds these forms, as the smoke of the winter season, becoming subtle, rests in the sky.
12.242.18
तथा देहाद्विमुक्तस्य पूर्वरूपं भवत्युत ।
अथ धूमस्य विरमेद्द्वितीयं रूपदर्शनम् ॥ १२.२४२.१८ ॥
Thus for one freed from the body there arises the former form; then, when the smoke ceases, the vision of the second form appears.
12.242.19
जलरूपमिवाकाशे तत्रैवात्मनि पश्यति ।
अपां व्यतिक्रमे चास्य वह्निरूपं प्रकाशते ॥ १२.२४२.१९ ॥
Like the form of water in space, he sees it right there in his own self; and when the waters pass away, the form of fire appears to him.
12.242.20
तस्मिन्नुपरते चास्य वायव्यं सूक्ष्ममव्ययम् ।
रूपं प्रकाशते तस्य पीतवस्त्रवदव्ययम् ॥ १२.२४२.२० ॥
When that has ceased, his subtle, imperishable form of the wind appears; like a yellow garment, his imperishable form shines forth.
12.242.21
तस्मिन्नुपरते रुपमाकाशस्य प्रकाशते ।
तस्मिन्नुपरते चास्य बुद्धिरूपं प्रकाशते।
ऊर्णारूपसवर्णस्य तस्य रूपं प्रकाशते ॥ १२.२४२.२१ ॥
When that has ceased, the form of space appears; when that has ceased, his form of intellect appears; the form of one resembling a spider's thread, his form, appears.
12.242.22
अथ श्वेतां गतिं गत्वा सोहङ्कारे प्रकाशते ।
सुशुक्लं चेतसः सौक्ष्म्यमप्युक्तं ब्राह्मणस्य वै ॥ १२.२४२.२२ ॥
Then, having gone the white path, he shines forth in the ego-sense. The subtlety of the mind is said to be very bright, and so indeed it is said of the brahmin.
12.242.23
एतेष्वपि हि जातेषु फलजातानि मे शृणु ।
जातस्य पार्थिवैश्वर्यैः सृष्टिरिष्टा विधीयते ॥ १२.२४२.२३ ॥
Even when these have arisen, hear from me the kinds of fruit. For one who is born, a desired creation is ordained through earthly sovereignty.
12.242.24
प्रजापतिरिवाक्षोभ्यः शरीरात्सृजते प्रजाः ।
अङ्गुल्यङ्गुष्ठमात्रेण हस्तपादेन वा तथा ॥ १२.२४२.२४ ॥
Like the lord of creatures, unshaken, he creates beings from the body — by the measure of a finger or thumb, or by hand or foot, likewise.
12.242.25
पृथिवीं कम्पयत्येको गुणो वायोरिति श्रुतिः ।
आकाशभूतश्चाकाशे सवर्णत्वात्प्रकाशते।
वर्णतो गृह्यते चाप्सु नापः पिबति चाशया ॥ १२.२४२.२५ ॥
Śruti says the single quality that shakes the earth belongs to air. The element of space shines forth in space because of its uniform colour; it is perceived by colour in water, yet it does not drink the water out of desire.
12.242.26
न चास्य तेजसां रूपं दृश्यते शाम्यते तथा ।
अहंकारेऽस्य विजिते पञ्चैते स्युर्वशानुगाः ॥ १२.२४२.२६ ॥
The form of its radiances is not seen, and so they grow still. When the ego is conquered, these five become followers under its control.
12.242.27
षण्णामात्मनि बुद्धौ च जितायां प्रभवत्यथ ।
निर्दोषा प्रतिभा ह्येनं कृत्स्ना समभिवर्तते ॥ १२.२४२.२७ ॥
When the six are conquered within the self and the intellect, then faultless insight arises, and the whole of it overtakes him.
12.242.28
तथैव व्यक्तमात्मानमव्यक्तं प्रतिपद्यते ।
यतो निःसरते लोको भवति व्यक्तसंज्ञकः ॥ १२.२४२.२८ ॥
In the same way the manifest self attains the unmanifest, from which the world emerges, and it comes to be called the manifest.
12.242.29
तत्राव्यक्तमयीं विद्यां शृणु त्वं विस्तरेण मे ।
तथा व्यक्तमयं चैव संख्यापूर्वं निबोध मे ॥ १२.२४२.२९ ॥
Listen to me in detail about the knowledge consisting of the unmanifest, and likewise understand from me the knowledge consisting of the manifest, beginning with enumeration.
12.242.30
पञ्चविंसतितत्त्वानि तुल्यान्युभयतः समम् ।
योगे साङ्ख्येऽपि च तथा विशेषं तत्र मे शृणु ॥ १२.२४२.३० ॥
The twenty-five principles are equal on both sides; likewise in yoga and in sāṅkhya. Listen from me to the distinction between them.
12.242.31
प्रोक्तं तद्व्यक्तमित्येव जायते वर्धते च यत् ।
जीर्यते म्रियते चैव चतुर्भिर्लक्षणैर्युतम् ॥ १२.२४२.३१ ॥
That is declared to be the manifest: it is born, grows, decays and dies, endowed with four characteristics.
12.242.32
विपरीतमतो यत्तु तदव्यक्तमुदाहृतम् ।
द्वावात्मानौ च वेदेषु सिद्धान्तेष्वप्युदाहृतौ ॥ १२.२४२.३२ ॥
That which is opposite to this is declared to be the unmanifest. In the Vedas and in the doctrines, two selves are also declared.
12.242.33
चतुर्लक्षणजं त्वाद्यं चतुर्वर्गं प्रचक्षते ।
व्यक्तमव्यक्तजं चैव तथा बुद्धिरथेतरत्
सत्वं क्षेत्रज्ञ इत्येतद्द्वयमव्यक्तदर्शनम् ॥ १२.२४२.३३ ॥
The first, born of four characteristics, they call the fourfold group. The manifest and what is born of the unmanifest, and intellect, and the other, sattva, and the knower of the field—these two form the view of the unmanifest.
12.242.34
द्वावात्मानौ च वेदेषु विषयेष्वनुरज्यतः ।
विषयात्प्रतिसंहारः साङ्ख्यानां विद्धि लक्षणम् ॥ १२.२४२.३४ ॥
In the Vedas two selves are declared. Know that withdrawal from objects, for those attached to objects, is the mark of the Sāṅkhyas.
12.242.35
निर्ममश्चानहंकारो निर्द्वन्द्वश्छिन्नसंशयः ।
नैव क्रुध्यति न द्वेष्टि नानृता भाषते गिरः ॥ १२.२४२.३५ ॥
Free from 'mine' and from self-conceit, beyond the pairs of opposites, with doubts cut away: he neither grows angry nor hates, and speaks no false words.
12.242.36
आक्रुष्टस्ताडितश्चैव मैत्रीयं ध्याति नाशुभम् ।
वाग्दण्डकर्ममनसां त्रयाणां च निवर्तकः ॥ १२.२४२.३६ ॥
Though reviled and struck, he meditates on friendliness and not on evil; he is the restrainer of the three—speech, the rod of action, and the mind.
12.242.37
समः सर्वेषु भूतेषु ब्रह्माणमभिवर्तते ।
नैवेच्छति न चानिच्छो यात्रामात्रव्यवस्थितः ॥ १२.२४२.३७ ॥
Even-minded towards all beings, he attains Brahman. He neither desires nor is without desire, abiding only in what the journey of life requires.
12.242.38
अलोलुपोऽव्यथो दान्तो नाकृतिर्न निराकृतिः ।
नास्येन्द्रियमनेकाग्रं नाविक्षिप्तमनोरथः ॥ १२.२४२.३८ ॥
Free from greed, undisturbed and self-restrained, he has neither a marked outward form nor disfigurement. His senses are not scattered, and his desires are not dispersed.
12.242.39
सर्वभूतसदृङ्भैत्रः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः ।
तुल्यप्रियाप्रियो धीरस्तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः ॥ १२.२४२.३९ ॥
Regarding all beings alike, friendly, he sees a clod of earth, a stone and gold as equal. Pleasant and unpleasant are the same to him; he is steady, equal in blame and in praise of himself.
12.242.40
अस्पृहः सर्वकामेभ्यो ब्रह्मचर्यदृढव्रतः ।
अहिंस्रः सर्वभूतानामीदृक्साङ्ख्यो विमुच्यते ॥ १२.२४२.४० ॥
Free from longing for all desires, firm in the vow of celibate discipline, harmless toward all beings — such a man of Sāṅkhya is liberated.
12.242.41
यथा योगाद्विमुच्यन्ते कारणैर्यैर्निबोध तत् ।
योगैश्वर्यमतिक्रान्तो योऽतिक्रामति मुच्यते ॥ १२.२४२.४१ ॥
Hear by what means people are liberated through yoga: he who has passed beyond the power of yoga, and passes beyond even that, is liberated.
12.242.42
इत्येषा भावजा बुद्धिः कथिता ते न संशयः ।
एवं भवति निर्द्वन्द्वो ब्रह्माणं चाधिगच्छति ॥ १२.२४२.४२ ॥
This understanding, born of inner state, has been told to you — there is no doubt. Thus he becomes free from the pairs of opposites and attains Brahman.