Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 12.330
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12.330.1
यद्यस्ति दत्तमिष्टं वा तपस्तप्तं तथैव च ।
गुरूणां वाऽपि शुश्रूषा तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह ॥ १२.३३०.१ ॥
If gifts have been given, sacrifices offered, or austerity performed, and likewise service rendered to teachers, tell me that, grandsire.
12.330.2
आत्मनाऽनर्थयुक्तेन पापे निविशते मनः ।
स कर्म कलुषं कृत्वा क्लेशे महति धीयते ॥ १२.३३०.२ ॥
A man who, himself joined to misfortune, sets his mind on sin, having done a stained deed, is placed in great affliction.
12.330.3
दुर्भिक्षादेव दुर्भिक्षं क्लेशात्क्लेशं भयाद्भयम् ।
मृतेभ्यः प्रमृता यान्ति दरिद्राः पापकर्मिणः ॥ १२.३३०.३ ॥
From famine they go to famine, from affliction to affliction, from fear to fear; poor men who do sinful deeds go from the dead to the dead.
12.330.4
उत्सवादुत्सवं यान्ति स्वर्गात्स्वर्गं सुखात्सुखम् ।
श्रद्दधानाश्च दान्ताश्च धनस्याः शुभकारिणः ॥ १२.३३०.४ ॥
From festival they go to festival, from heaven to heaven, from happiness to happiness; the faithful, the self-controlled, and those who do good deeds with their wealth go likewise.
12.330.5
व्यालकुञ्जरदुर्गेषु सर्पचोरभयेषु च ।
हस्तावापेन गच्छन्ति नास्तिकाः किमतः परम् ॥ १२.३३०.५ ॥
In fortresses of snakes and elephants, in the dangers of serpents and thieves, unbelievers go as if cast by a hand; what more is there to say than this?
12.330.6
प्रियदेवातिथेयाश्च वदान्याः प्रियसाधवः ।
क्षेम्यमात्मवता मार्गमास्थिता हस्तदक्षिणाः ॥ १२.३३०.६ ॥
Dear to gods and guests, generous, dear to the good, open-handed in giving, they abide on the secure path taken up by the self-controlled.
12.330.7
पुलाका इव धान्येषु पूत्यण्डा इव पक्षिषु ।
तद्विधास्ते मनुष्येषु येषां धर्मो न कारणम् ॥ १२.३३०.७ ॥
Like chaff among grains and rotten eggs among birds, such are those among men whose cause is not dharma.
12.330.8
सुशीघ्रमपि धावन्तं विधानमनुधावति ।
शेते सह शयानेन येनयेन यथाकृतम् ॥ १२.३३०.८ ॥
Even the one who runs very swiftly is followed by fate; whatever one has done lies down together with the one who lies down.
12.330.9
पापं तिष्ठति तिष्ठन्तं धावन्तमनुधावति ।
करोति कुर्वतः कर्म च्छायेवानुविधीयते ॥ १२.३३०.९ ॥
Evil stands with the one who stands and runs after the one who runs; the deed follows the doer as a shadow does.
12.330.10
येनयेन यथा यद्यत्पुरा कर्म सुनिश्चितम् ।
तत्तदेव नरो भुङ्क्ते नित्यं विहितमात्मना ॥ १२.३३०.१० ॥
Whatever action was firmly determined in former times, in whatever way, that very thing a man enjoys, which he himself has always ordained.
12.330.11
समानकर्मनिक्षेपं विधानपरिरक्षणम् ।
भूतग्राममिमं कालः समन्तादपकर्षति ॥ १२.३३०.११ ॥
Time draws away on all sides this multitude of beings, which holds the deposit of equal deeds and the guarding of ordinance.
12.330.12
अचोद्यमानानि यथा पुष्पाणि च फलानि च ।
स्वं कालं नातिवर्तन्ते तथा कर्म पुराकृतम् ॥ १२.३३०.१२ ॥
Just as flowers and fruits, though not urged, do not transgress their own season, so too does past-made action.
12.330.13
समानश्चावमानश्च लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ ।
प्रवृत्ता न निवर्तन्ते निधनान्ताः पदेपदे ॥ १२.३३०.१३ ॥
Honour and dishonour, gain and loss, victory and defeat — those that have been set in motion end in death at every step and do not turn back.
12.330.14
आत्मना विहितं दुःखमात्मना विहितं सुखम् ।
गर्भशय्यामुपादाय भजते पूर्वदेहिकम् ॥ १२.३३०.१४ ॥
Suffering is ordained by oneself, and happiness is ordained by oneself; beginning from the bed of the womb, a being partakes of the (deeds of the) former body.
12.330.15
बालो युवा वा वृद्धश्च यत्करोति शुभाशुभम् ।
तस्यांतस्यामवस्थायां भुङ्क्ते जन्मनिजन्मनि ॥ १२.३३०.१५ ॥
Whether child, youth, or old man, whatever good or evil one does, in each of those states one enjoys its fruit, birth after birth.
12.330.16
यथा धेनुसहस्रेषु वत्सो विन्दति मातरम् ।
तथा पूर्वकृतं कर्म कर्तारमनुगच्छति ॥ १२.३३०.१६ ॥
As among a thousand cows a calf finds its mother, so the action done before follows its doer.
12.330.17
मलिनं हि यथा वस्त्रं पश्चाच्छुध्यति वारिणा ।
उपवासैः प्रतप्तानां दीर्घं सुखमनन्तकम् ॥ १२.३३०.१७ ॥
As a soiled cloth is afterwards cleansed with water, so for those purified by fasts there is long, endless happiness.
12.330.18
दीर्घकालेन तपसा सेवितेन तपोवने ।
धर्मनिर्धूतपापानां संसिध्यन्ते मनोरथाः ॥ १२.३३०.१८ ॥
Through austerity practised for a long time in the penance-grove, the desires of those whose sins are shaken off by dharma are fulfilled.
12.330.19
शकुनानामिवाकाशे मत्स्यानामिव चोदके ।
पदं यथा न दृश्येत तथा पुण्यकृतां गतिः ॥ १२.३३०.१९ ॥
As the track of birds in the sky and of fishes in the water cannot be seen, so the path of those who have done meritorious deeds is not seen.
12.330.20
अलमन्यैरुपालब्धैः कीर्तितैश्च व्यतिक्रमैः ।
पेशलं चानुरूपं च कर्तव्यं हितमात्मनः ॥ १२.३३०.२० ॥
Enough of reproaching others and recounting their transgressions. One should do what is pleasant, fitting, and beneficial to oneself.