Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 12.258
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12.258.1
द्वन्द्वासि मोक्षजिज्ञासुरर्थधर्मानुतिष्ठतः ।
वक्रा गुणवता शिष्यः श्राव्यः पूर्वमिदं महत् ॥ १२.२५८.१ ॥
You are caught among the pairs of opposites, desiring to know liberation and practising wealth and duty. A virtuous teacher should first have this great teaching heard by his disciple.
12.258.2
आकाशं मारुतो ज्योतिरा…पृथ्वी च पञ्चमी ।
भावाभावौ च कालश्च सर्वभूतेषु पञ्चसु ॥ १२.२५८.२ ॥
Space, air, light… and the fifth, earth; being and non-being, and time — these five are in all beings.
12.258.3
अन्तरात्मकमाकाशं तन्मयं श्रोत्रमिन्द्रियम् ।
तस्य शब्दं गुणं विद्यान्मुनिः शास्त्रविधानवित् ॥ १२.२५८.३ ॥
Space is of the nature of the inner self; the ear, the sense made of it — its quality, one should know, is sound, as the sage versed in the rules of scripture says.
12.258.4
चरणं मारुतात्मेति प्राणापानौ च तन्मयौ ।
स्पर्शनं चेन्द्रियं विद्यात्तथा स्पर्शं च तन्मयम् ॥ १२.२५८.४ ॥
Movement is of the nature of wind, and so are the outbreath and inbreath. The skin is to be known as the sense of touch, and touch too is made of that.
12.258.5
तापः पाकः प्रकाशश्च ज्योतिश्चक्षुश्च तन्मयम् ।
तस्य रूपं गुणं विद्यात्तमोनाशकमात्मवान् ॥ १२.२५८.५ ॥
Heat, digestion and radiance, light and the eye are also made of it; its quality, the self-controlled should know, is form, which destroys darkness.
12.258.6
प्रक्लेदो द्रवता स्नेह इत्यपामुपदिश्यते ।
असृङ्भज्जा च यच्चान्यत्स्निग्धं विद्यात्तदात्मकम्
रसनं चेन्द्रियं जिह्वा रसश्चापां गुणो मतः ॥ १२.२५८.६ ॥
Moisture, fluidity and oiliness are taught as the marks of water; blood, marrow and whatever else is unctuous should be known as of that nature. The tongue is the sense of taste, and taste is held to be the quality of water.
12.258.7
संघातः पार्थिवो धातुरस्थिदन्तनखानि च ।
श्मश्चु रोम च केशाश्च सिरा स्नायु च चर्म च ॥ १२.२५८.७ ॥
The composite body is the earthy constituent: bones, teeth and nails, beard, body hair and head hair, veins, sinews, and skin.
12.258.8
इन्द्रियं घ्राणसंज्ञातं नासिकेत्यभिसंज्ञिता ।
गन्धश्चैवेन्द्रियार्थोऽयं विज्ञेयः पृथिवीमयः ॥ १२.२५८.८ ॥
The sense called smell is designated the nose; its object is odour, which should be known as made of earth.
12.258.9
उत्तरेषु गुणाः सर्वे सन्ति पूर्वेषु नोत्तराः ।
पञ्चानां भूतसङ्घानां संततिं मुनयो विदुः ॥ १२.२५८.९ ॥
In the later elements all the qualities are present, but in the earlier ones the later are not. The sages know the sequence of the five groups of elements.
12.258.10
मनो नवममेषां तु बुद्धिस्तु दशमी स्मृता ।
एकादशस्त्वन्तरात्मा स सर्वः पर उच्यते ॥ १२.२५८.१० ॥
Among these, the mind is the ninth, and the intellect is remembered as the tenth. The eleventh is the inner self, which is all and is called the supreme.
12.258.11
व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिर्मनो व्याकरणात्मकम् ।
कर्मानुमानाद्विज्ञेयः स जीवः क्षेत्रसंज्ञकः ॥ १२.२५८.११ ॥
Intellect has the nature of determination, and mind has the nature of analysis. By inference from action it should be known that this is the living self, called the knower of the field.
12.258.12
एभिः कालात्मकैर्भावैर्यः सर्वैः सर्वमन्वितम् ।
पश्यत्यकलुयं बुद्ध्या स मोहं नानुवर्तते ॥ १२.२५८.१२ ॥
He who sees everything joined with these time-natured states by a pure intellect does not follow delusion.