Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 14.35
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14.35.1
नेदमल्पात्मना शक्यं वेदितुं वाऽकृतात्मना ।
बहु चाल्पं च संक्षिप्तं विस्तृतं च मतं मम ॥ १४.३५.१ ॥
It is not possible for one of small self, or for one whose self is undisciplined, to know this. In my view it is both much and little, both condensed and expanded.
14.35.2
उपायं तं मम ब्रूहि येनैषा लभ्यते मतिः ।
तन्मन्ये कारणं कर्म यत एषा प्रवर्तते ॥ १४.३५.२ ॥
Tell me that means by which this understanding is obtained. I think its cause is action, from which it arises.
14.35.3
अरणीं ब्राह्मणीं विद्धि गुरुरस्योत्तरारणिः ।
तपःश्रुतेभिमथिनी ज्ञानाग्निर्जायते ततः ॥ १४.३५.३ ॥
Know the brāhmaṇa kind of fire-stick as the lower one; its upper fire-stick is the teacher. Churned by austerity and learning, from it is born the fire of knowledge.
14.35.4
यदिदं ब्रह्मणो लिङ्गं क्षेत्रज्ञ इति संज्ञितम् ।
ग्रहीतुं येन यच्छक्यं लक्षणं तस्य तद्वद ॥ १४.३५.४ ॥
Tell me the characteristic of that which is the sign of Brahman, named the knower of the field, and by what means it can be grasped.
14.35.5
अलिङ्गो निर्गुणश्चैव कारणं नास्य विग्रहे ।
उपायमेव वक्ष्यामि येन गृह्येत भावना ॥ १४.३५.५ ॥
He is without sign and without qualities, and in the body there is no cause for him. I will tell you the very means by which contemplation may be grasped.
14.35.6
सम्यगप्युपदिष्टस्य ह्यमृतस्येव तृप्यसे ।
कर्मबुद्धिरबुद्धित्वाज्ज्ञानलिङ्गान्निपातितः। ॥ १४.३५.६ ॥
Though well instructed, you are satisfied as if you had attained nectar; yet, through lack of understanding, your mind is set on action and you have fallen from the sign of knowledge.
14.35.7
इदं कार्यमिदं नेति न मोक्षेषूपदिश्यते ।
पश्यतः शृण्वतो बुद्धिरात्मनैवोपजायते ॥ १४.३५.७ ॥
"This is to be done, this is not" — such is not taught in matters of liberation. In one who sees and hears, understanding arises from the self alone.
14.35.8
यावन्त इह शक्येरंस्तावतोंऽसान्प्रकल्पयेत् ।
अव्यक्तान्व्यक्तरूपांश्च शतशोऽथ सहस्रशः ॥ १४.३५.८ ॥
As many aspects as can be conceived here, one should imagine — the unmanifest and the manifest in form, by hundreds and by thousands.
14.35.9
सर्वानुमानयुक्तांश्च सर्वान्प्रत्यक्षहेतुकान् ।
यतः परं न विद्येत ततोऽभ्यासे भविष्यति ॥ १४.३५.९ ॥
All that is joined to inference, and all that has direct perception as its cause — such that nothing beyond them is found; then it will come to be in practice.
14.35.10
ततस्तु तस्या ब्राह्मण्या मतिः क्षेत्रज्ञसंशये ।
क्षेत्रज्ञानेन परतः क्षेत्रज्ञोऽन्यः प्रवर्तते ॥ १४.३५.१० ॥
Then the mind of that brahmin woman fell into doubt about the knower of the field. Beyond the knower of the field, another knower of the field comes forth.
14.35.11
क्व नु सा ब्राह्मणि कृष्ण क्व चासौ ब्राह्मणर्षभः ।
याभ्यां सिद्धिरियं प्राप्ता तावुभौ वद मेऽच्युत ॥ १४.३५.११ ॥
Where is that brahmin woman, Kṛṣṇa, and where is that bull among brahmins, by whose two selves this perfection was attained? O Acyuta, tell me both of them.
14.35.12
मनो मे ब्राह्मणं विद्धि बुद्धिं मे विद्धि ब्राह्मणीम् ।
क्षेत्रज्ञ इति यश्चोक्तः सोऽहमेव धनंजय ॥ १४.३५.१२ ॥
Know my mind as the brahmin, and know my intellect as the brahmin woman; he who has been called the knower of the field, that very one am I, O Dhanaṃjaya.