Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 13.169
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13.169.1
अरिष्टानि प्रवक्ष्यामि तत्वेन शृणु तद्भवान् ।
मध्य उत्तरतस्तात दक्षिणामुखनिष्ठितम् ॥ १३.१६९.१ ॥
I shall declare the omens; hear them truly, dear one: the figure standing in the middle, from the north, facing south.
13.169.2
विद्युत्संस्थानपुरुषं यदि पश्येत मानवः ।
वर्षत्रयेण जानीयाद्देहन्यासमुपस्थितम्।
एतत्फलमंरिष्टस्य शङ्कराहुर्मनीषिणः। ॥ १३.१६९.२ ॥
If a man sees a figure shaped like lightning, he should know within three years that the laying down of the body is near. This result of the omen, Śaṅkara and the wise declare.
13.169.3
शुद्धमण्डमादित्यमरश्मिमथ पश्यतः ।
वर्षार्धकेन जानीयाद्देहन्यासमुपस्थितम् ॥ १३.१६९.३ ॥
To one who sees the pure disc of the sun without its rays, within half a year one should know the laying down of the body is near.
13.169.4
छिद्रां चन्द्रमसश्छायां पादावप्यनपश्यतः ।
संवत्सरेण जानीयाद्देहन्यासमुपस्थितम् ॥ १३.१६९.४ ॥
To one who does not see the perforated shadow of the moon, nor even his own feet, within a year one should know the laying down of the body is near.
13.169.5
कनीनिकायामशिरःपुरुषं यदि पश्यति ।
जानीयात्षट्सु मासेषु देहन्यासमुपस्थितम् ॥ १३.१६९.५ ॥
If one sees in the pupil of the eye a headless figure, within six months one should know the laying down of the body is near.
13.169.6
कर्णौ पिधाय हस्ताभ्यां शब्दं न शृणुयाद्यदि ।
विजानीयात्तु मासेन देहन्यासमुपस्थितम् ॥ १३.१६९.६ ॥
If, with both hands covering the ears, one does not hear a sound, within a month one should know the laying down of the body is near.
13.169.7
आमगन्धमुपाघ्राति सुरभिं प्राप्य भास्वरम् ।
देवतायतनस्थोपि सप्तरात्रेण मृत्युभाक् ॥ १३.१६९.७ ॥
Even one standing in a temple of the gods, having met a bright fragrance, who smells a raw foul odour is subject to death within seven nights.
13.169.8
सर्वाङ्गधारणावस्थां धारयेत समाहितः ।
यथा स मृत्युं जयति नान्यथेह महेश्वर।
यदि जीवितुमिच्छेत चिरकालं महामुने ॥ १३.१६९.८ ॥
He should hold the posture of holding all the limbs, composed; thus he conquers death, there is no other way here, O Maheśvara, if he wishes to live for a long time, O great sage.
13.169.9
अथ नेच्छेच्चिरं कालं त्यजेदात्मानमात्मना ।
केवलं चिन्तयानस्तु निष्कलं स निरामयम् ॥ १३.१६९.९ ॥
But if he does not wish to live for long, let him abandon himself by himself; meditating solely upon the partless, diseaseless one.
13.169.10
अथ तं निर्विकारं तु प्रकृते परमं शुचिः ।
पुरुषं देहसाधर्म्यं देहन्यासमुपाश्नुयात् ॥ १३.१६९.१० ॥
Then, pure, he should attain the placing of the body in that supreme, unchanging Person, beyond nature, whose nature is like that of the body.
13.169.11
जाग्रतो हि मयोक्तानि तवारिष्टानि तत्वतः ।
धारणाच्चैव सर्वाङ्गे मृत्यु जीयात्सुरर्षभ ॥ १३.१६९.११ ॥
For I have told you the omens of death truly, while you are awake; and by holding in all the limbs one may conquer death, O best of gods.
13.169.12
एकत्वदर्शनं भूयो नानात्वं च निबोध मे ।
अक्षरं च क्षरं चैव चतुष्टयविधानतः ॥ १३.१६९.१२ ॥
Learn from me the vision of oneness and again of multiplicity; the imperishable and the perishable, according to the fourfold arrangement.
13.169.13
अव्यक्तादीनि तत्वानि सर्वाण्येव महाद्युते ।
आहुश्चतुर्विंशतितमं विकारपुरुषान्वितम् ॥ १३.१६९.१३ ॥
O you of great brilliance, they speak of all the principles beginning with the Unmanifest, and of the self joined with modifications as the twenty-fourth.
13.169.14
एकत्वदर्शनं चैव नानात्वेन वरं स्मृतम् ।
पञ्चविंशतिवर्गः स्यादपवर्गोऽजरामरः ॥ १३.१६९.१४ ॥
The vision of oneness is held to be superior to multiplicity; the group of twenty-five becomes liberation, which is ageless and deathless.
13.169.15
स निर्विकारः पुरुषस्तत्वेनैवोपदिश्यते ।
स एव पञ्चविंशस्तु विकारः पुरुषः स्मृतः ॥ १३.१६९.१५ ॥
That unchanging self is taught as a principle; he indeed is the twenty-fifth, but the self with modifications is held to be the modified one.
13.169.16
यद्येष निर्विकारः स्यात्तत्वं न तु भवेद्भव ।
विकारो विद्यमानस्तु तत्वसंज्ञकमुच्यते ॥ १३.१६९.१६ ॥
If this self were unchanging, O Bhava, it would not be a principle; it is the existing modification that is called by the name of principle.
13.169.17
यद्योषोऽव्यक्ततां नैति व्यतिरेकान्न संशयः ।
तथा भवति निस्तत्वस्तथा सत्वस्तथागुणः ॥ १३.१६९.१७ ॥
If this self does not attain the unmanifest state, then by way of exclusion there is no doubt: it becomes without principle, possessed of sattva, and without qualities.
13.169.18
विकारगुणसंत्यागात्प्रकृत्यन्यत्वता शुचिः ।
तदा नानात्वतामेति सर्गहीनोऽपवर्गभाक् ॥ १३.१६९.१८ ॥
By abandoning modifications and qualities, and being pure and other than nature, he then attains multiplicity; free from creation, he becomes a sharer of liberation.
13.169.19
बोध्यमानः प्रबुध्येत समो भवति बुद्धिमान् ।
अक्षरश्च भवत्येष यथावा च्युतवान्क्षणात् ॥ १३.१६९.१९ ॥
The one who is being awakened fully awakes; the wise one becomes even-minded. This one also becomes imperishable, or in an instant falls away.
13.169.20
अव्यक्ताव्यक्तिरुक्ता स्यान्निर्गुणस्य गुणाकरात् ।
एतदेकत्वनानात्वमक्षरः क्षर एव च ॥ १३.१६९.२० ॥
From the attributeless one, from the source of qualities, the unmanifest and the manifest are said to arise. This is unity and multiplicity — the imperishable and also the perishable.
13.169.21
व्याख्यातं तव शूलाङ्क तथारिष्टानि चैव हि ।
विमोक्षलक्षणं शेषं तदपीह ब्रवीमि ते।
यं ज्ञात्वा यतयः प्राप्ताः केवलत्वमनामयम् ॥ १३.१६९.२१ ॥
O bearer of the trident-mark, the signs of death have been explained to you, and likewise the signs of death. Now I tell you the rest of the marks of liberation, knowing which ascetics attained the unconditioned, faultless state of kevala.
13.169.22
साङ्ख्याश्चाप्यथ योगाश्च दग्धपङ्का गतज्वराः ।
अमूर्तित्वमनुप्राप्ता निर्गुणा निर्भया भव ॥ १३.१६९.२२ ॥
The Sāṅkhyas and the yogins too, their mire burnt away and free from fever, have attained incorporeality. Become attributeless and fearless.
13.169.23
विपाप्मानो महादेव मुक्ताः संसारसागरात् ।
सरणे प्रजनादाने गुणानां प्रकृतिः सदा।
परा प्रमत्ता सततमेतावत्कार्यकारणम् ॥ १३.१६९.२३ ॥
O Mahādeva, sinless, they were freed from the ocean of saṃsāra. In going forth and in taking up progeny, the primal nature of the qualities is always supreme and constantly intoxicated — so far extends cause and effect.
13.169.24
असच्चैव च सच्चैव कुरुते स पुनः पुनः ।
चैतन्येन पुराणेन चेतनाचेतनात्परः ॥ १३.१६९.२४ ॥
He again and again makes both the unreal and the real. By the ancient consciousness, he is supreme, beyond the conscious and the unconscious.
13.169.25
यस्तु चेतयते चेतो मनसा चैकबुद्धिकम् ।
स नैव सन्न चैवासन्सदसन्न च संस्मृतः ॥ १३.१६९.२५ ॥
He who perceives consciousness with the mind and a single intellect is remembered as neither existent, nor non-existent, nor both existent and non-existent.
13.169.26
व्यतिरिक्तश्च शुद्धश्च सोऽन्यश्चाप्रकृतिस्तथा ।
उपेक्षकश्च प्रकृतेर्विकारपुरुषः स्मृतः ॥ १३.१६९.२६ ॥
He is distinct, pure, other, and not nature; the indifferent observer of nature, remembered as the puruṣa of transformation.
13.169.27
विकारपुरुषेणैषा संयुक्ता सृजते जगत् ।
पुनराददते चैव गुणानामन्यथात्मनि ॥ १३.१६९.२७ ॥
Joined with the puruṣa of transformation, this nature creates the world, and again takes back the guṇas in a different way into the self.
13.169.28
मत्स्योदकात्ससंज्ञातः प्रकृतेरेव कर्मणः ।
तद्वत्क्षेत्रसहस्राणि स एव प्रकरिष्यति ॥ १३.१६९.२८ ॥
As a fish, arising from water, becomes known through the action of nature, so he will bring forth thousands of fields.
13.169.29
क्षेत्रप्रलयतज्ज्ञस्तु क्षेत्रज्ञ इति चोच्यते ।
सयोगो नित्य इत्याहुर्ये जनास्तत्वदर्शिनः ॥ १३.१६९.२९ ॥
He who knows the dissolution of the field is called the knower of the field; the people who see the truth say this union is eternal.
13.169.30
एवमेष ह्यसत्सच्च विकारपुरुषः स्मृतः ।
विकारापद्यमानं तु विकृतिं प्रवदन्ति नः ॥ १३.१६९.३० ॥
Thus this puruṣa of transformation is remembered as both non-existent and existent; but that which undergoes transformation they call modification to us.
13.169.31
यदा त्वेष विकारस्य प्रकृतानिति मन्यते ।
तदा विकारतामेति विकारान्यत्वतां व्रजेत् ॥ १३.१६९.३१ ॥
When he takes the modification to be his primal nature, then he comes to the state of modification and would go to the state of being other than the modifications.
13.169.32
प्रकृत्या च विकारैश्च व्यतिरिक्तो यदा भवेत् ।
शुचि यत्परमं शुद्धं प्रतिबुद्धं सनातनम्।
अयुक्तं निष्कलं शुद्धमव्ययं चाजरामरम् ॥ १३.१६९.३२ ॥
When he is distinct from primal nature and from the modifications, then he becomes pure, supreme, undefiled, awakened, eternal, unattached, partless, pure, imperishable, ageless and undying.
13.169.33
समेत्य तेन शुद्धेन बुध्यमानः स भास्वरः ।
विमोक्षं भजते व्यक्तादप्रबुद्धादचेतनात् ॥ १३.१६९.३३ ॥
Having united with that pure one, the radiant one, awakening, attains liberation from the manifest, the unawakened, the unconscious.
13.169.34
उदुम्बराद्वा मशकः प्रलयान्निर्गतो यथा ।
तथाऽव्यक्तस्य संत्यागान्निर्ममः पञ्च विंशकः ॥ १३.१६९.३४ ॥
As a gnat emerges from the udumbara fig or from dissolution, so, through complete renunciation of the unmanifest, the twenty-fifth becomes free from 'mine'.
13.169.35
यथा पुष्करपर्णस्थो जलबिन्दुर्न संश्लिषेत् ।
तथैवाव्यक्तविषये न लिप्येत्पञ्चविंशकः ॥ १३.१६९.३५ ॥
As a drop of water resting on a lotus leaf does not cling to it, so the twenty-fifth is not stained by the objects of the unmanifest.
13.169.36
आकाश इव निःसङ्गस्तथा सङ्गस्त्था वरः ।
पञ्चविंशतिमो बुद्धो बुद्धेनि समतां गतः ॥ १३.१६९.३६ ॥
Unattached like the sky, and likewise excellent even in attachment; the twenty-fifth, having awakened, attains equanimity with the awakened one.
13.169.37
एतद्धि प्रकृतं ज्ञानं तत्वतश्च समुत्थितम् ।
पूर्वजेभ्यस्तथोत्पन्नं ब्रह्मजेभ्यस्तथानघ ॥ १३.१६९.३७ ॥
This knowledge, which arose naturally and in truth, was also produced from the ancestors and from the sons of Brahmā, O sinless one.
13.169.38
आदिसर्गो महाबाहो तामसेनावृतं परम् ।
प्रतिष्टावयवंदेवमभेद्यमजरामरम् ॥ १३.१६९.३८ ॥
O mighty-armed one, the first creation is covered by darkness and is supreme; that god, whose limb is establishment, is indivisible, ageless, and undying.
13.169.39
सनकः सनन्दनश्चैवि तृतीयश्च सनातनः ।
ते विदुः परमं धर्ममव्ययं व्ययधर्षणम् ॥ १३.१६९.३९ ॥
Sanaka, Sanandana, and the third, Sanātana, knew the supreme dharma, imperishable, which cannot be overcome by decay.
13.169.40
अव्यक्तात्परमात्सूक्ष्मादव्रणान्मूर्तिसंज्ञकात् ।
क्षेत्रज्ञो भगवानास्ते नरायणपरायणः ॥ १३.१६९.४० ॥
Beyond the unmanifest, the supreme, the subtle, and that without flaw called the embodied, the blessed knower of the field abides, devoted to Nārāyaṇa.
13.169.41
अस्माकं सहजातानामुत्पन्नं ज्ञानमुत्तमम् ।
एते हि मूर्तिमन्तो वै लोकान्प्रविचरामहे ॥ १३.१६९.४१ ॥
Among our co-born brothers the supreme knowledge arose; indeed, embodied, we wander through the worlds.
13.169.42
पुनःपुनः प्रजाता वै तत्रतत्र पिनाकधृक् ।
द्वन्द्वैर्विरज्यमानस्य ज्ञानमुत्पन्नमुत्तमम् ॥ १३.१६९.४२ ॥
Born again and again, here and there, through the bearer of the Pināka bow: in one who has become detached from the pairs of opposites, supreme knowledge arises.
13.169.43
कपिलान्मूलआचार्यात्तत्वबुद्धिविनिश्चयम् ।
योगसांख्यमवाप्तं मे कार्त्स्न्येन मुनिसत्तमात् ॥ १३.१६९.४३ ॥
From the original teacher Kapila, from the best of sages, I fully obtained the firm certainty of the intellect regarding the principles, the knowledge of yoga and sāṅkhya.
13.169.44
तेन संबोधिताः शिष्या बहवस्तत्वदर्शिनः ।
तद्बुद्ध्वा बहवः शिष्या मयाप्येतन्निदर्शिताः ॥ १३.१६९.४४ ॥
Many disciples instructed by him became seers of the truth; having understood it, I too showed this to many disciples.
13.169.45
जन्ममृत्युहरं तथ्यं ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं सनातनम् ।
यज्ज्ञात्वा नानुशोचन्ति तत्वज्ञाना निरिन्द्रियाः ॥ १३.१६९.४५ ॥
True and eternal knowledge, which removes birth and death and is to be known; having known which, the knowers of the principles, free from the senses, do not grieve.
13.169.46
शुद्धबीजमलाश्चैव विपङ्का वै निरक्षराः ।
स्वतन्त्रास्ते स्वतन्त्रेण सम्मिता निष्कलाः स्मृताः ॥ १३.१६९.४६ ॥
Their seed and impurities purified, free from mire and imperishable, they are independent; joined with the independent one, they are remembered as partless.
13.169.47
शाश्वताश्चाव्ययाश्चैव तमोग्राह्याश्च भास्वर ।
विपाप्मानस्तथा सर्वे सत्वस्थाश्चापि निर्व्रणाः ॥ १३.१६९.४७ ॥
Eternal and imperishable, to be grasped by darkness, O radiant one; all of them are sinless, abiding in sattva, and woundless.
13.169.48
विमुक्ताः केवलाश्चैव वीतमोहभयास्तथा ।
अमूर्तास्ते महाभाग सर्वे च विगतज्वराः ॥ १३.१६९.४८ ॥
Liberated, absolute, and free from delusion and fear; likewise they are formless, O greatly fortunate one, and all of them are free from the fever of suffering.
13.169.49
हिरण्यनाभस्त्रिशिरास्तथा प्रह्लादभास्करौ ।
वसुर्विश्वावसुश्चैव सार्धं पञ्चशिखस्तथा ॥ १३.१६९.४९ ॥
Hiraṇyanābha, Triśirās likewise, Prahlāda and Bhāskara, Vasu and Viśvāvasu, and together with Pañcaśikha.
13.169.50
गार्ग्योऽथासुरिरावन्त्यो गौतमो वृत एव च ।
कात्यायनोऽथ नमुचिर्हरिश्च दमनश्चि ह ॥ १३.१६९.५० ॥
Gārgya, then Āsuri, Āvantya, Gautama, Vṛta too, Kātyāyana, then Namuci, Hari and Damana as well.
13.169.51
एते चान्ये च बहवस्तत्वमेवोपदर्शिताः ।
केचिन्मुक्ताः स्थिताः केचिच्छन्दतश्चापरे मृताः ॥ १३.१६९.५१ ॥
These and many others were shown as examples of the truth: some were liberated, some remained, and others died at will.
13.169.52
दर्शितास्त्रिविधं बन्धं विमोक्षं त्रिविधं तथा ।
अज्ञानं चैव रागश्च संयोगं प्राकृतं तथा ॥ १३.१६९.५२ ॥
The threefold bondage and the threefold liberation were shown: ignorance and passion, and likewise the union with matter.
13.169.53
एतेभ्यो बन्धनं प्रोक्तं विमोक्षमपि मे शृणु ।
परितस्तावता सम्यक्सम्बन्धो यावता कृतः ॥ १३.१६९.५३ ॥
Bondage has been declared from these; now hear from me about liberation too. Only so far as the complete connection has been made does it extend all around.
13.169.54
कृत्स्नक्षयपरित्यागाद्विमोक्ष इति नः श्रुतिः ।
निवृत्तः सर्वसङ्गेभ्यः केवलः पुरुषोऽमलः ॥ १३.१६९.५४ ॥
By abandoning total destruction, liberation comes—so our tradition holds. The person who has withdrawn from all attachments, who is alone and stainless, is liberated.
13.169.55
इत्येवमुक्त्वा भगवानीश्वराय महात्मने ।
सनत्कुमारः प्रययावाकाशं समुपाश्रितः ॥ १३.१६९.५५ ॥
Having spoken thus, the blessed Sanatkumāra took leave of the great-souled Īśvara and departed, ascending into the sky.