Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 3.30
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3.30.1
नमो धात्रे विधात्रे च यौ मोहं चक्रतुस्तव ।
पितृपैतामहे राज्ये वोढव्ये तेऽन्यथा मतिः ॥ ३.३०.१ ॥
Homage to the Creator and to the Disposer, who two have cast delusion upon you. Your mind has turned otherwise, when you ought to bear the kingdom of your father and grandfather.
3.30.2
कर्मभिश्चिन्तितो लोको गत्यांगत्यां पृथग्विधः ।
तस्मात्कर्माणि नित्यानि लोभान्मोक्षं यियासति । ॥ ३.३०.२ ॥
The world, conceived through actions, is of various kinds in its going and coming. Therefore the constant rites should be performed; one who out of greed desires liberation.
3.30.3
नेह धर्मानृशंस्याभ्यां न क्षान्त्या नार्जवेन च ।
पुरुषः श्रियमाप्नोति न घृणित्वेन कर्हिचित् ॥ ३.३०.३ ॥
In this world a man obtains prosperity only through dharma, compassion, forbearance and uprightness, and never through cruelty.
3.30.4
त्वां चेद्व्यसनमभ्यागादिदं भारत दुःसहम् ।
स त्वं नार्हसि नापीमे भ्रातरस्ते महौजसः ॥ ३.३०.४ ॥
If this unbearable calamity has come upon you, O Bhārata, then you should not do so, nor should these your brothers of great might.
3.30.5
न हि तेऽध्यगमञ्जातु तदानीं नाद्य भारत ।
धर्मात्प्रियतरं किंचिदपि चेज्जीवितादपि ॥ ३.३०.५ ॥
O Bhārata, neither then nor now have you ever found anything dearer than dharma, not even than life itself.
3.30.6
धर्मार्थमेव ते राज्यं धर्मार्थं जीवितं च ते ।
ब्राह्मणा गुरवश्चैव जानन्त्यपि च देवताः ॥ ३.३०.६ ॥
Your kingdom is for the sake of dharma, and your life too is for the sake of dharma. Brahmins, teachers, and even the gods know this.
3.30.7
भीमसेनार्जुनौ चोभौ माद्रेयौ च मया सह ।
त्यजेस्त्वमिति मे बुद्धिर्न तु धर्मं परित्यजेः ॥ ३.३०.७ ॥
Bhīmasena and Arjuna, both, and the two sons of Mādrī, and me as well, you should abandon them—that is my thought; but do not abandon dharma.
3.30.8
राजानं धर्मगोप्तारं धर्मो रक्षति रक्षितः ।
इति मे श्रुतमार्याणां त्वां तु मन्ये न रक्षति ॥ ३.३०.८ ॥
I have heard from the noble ones that dharma protects the king who protects dharma, when he is protected; but I think it does not protect you.
3.30.9
त्यक्त्वाऽन्यान्हि नरव्याघ्र नित्यदा धर्म एव ते ।
बुद्धिः सततमन्वेति छायेवं पुरुषं निजा ॥ ३.३०.९ ॥
O tiger among men, even having abandoned the others, your dharma is always your mind; as a shadow follows a man, so it constantly follows you.
3.30.10
नावमंस्था हि सदृशान्नावराञ्श्रेयसः कुतः ।
अवाप्य पृथिवीं कृत्स्नां न ते शृङ्गमवर्धत ॥ ३.३०.१० ॥
Do not disregard equals, nor inferiors; how then superiors? Having obtained the entire earth, your peak did not grow.
3.30.11
स्वाहाकारैः स्वधाभिश्च पूजाभिरपि च द्विजान् ।
देवताश्च पितॄंश्चैव सततं पार्थ सेवसे ॥ ३.३०.११ ॥
O son of Pṛthā, with offerings to the gods, with offerings to the ancestors, and with worship, you constantly serve the twice-born, the gods and the ancestors.
3.30.12
ब्राह्मणाः सर्वकामैस्ते सततं पार्थ तर्पिताः ।
यतयो मोक्षिणश्चैव गृहस्ताश्चैव भारत ॥ ३.३०.१२ ॥
O son of Pṛthā, the brahmins have constantly been satisfied by you in all desires; and the ascetics, the seekers of liberation, and also the householders, O descendant of Bharata.
3.30.13
भुञ्जते रुक्मपात्रीभिर्यत्राहं परिचारिका ।
आरण्यकेभ्यो वन्यानि भोजनानि प्रयच्छसि।
नादेयं ब्राह्मणेभ्यस्ते गृहे किंचन विद्यते ॥ ३.३०.१३ ॥
Where I once served as a maidservant, people ate from golden vessels; yet you give forest food to the forest-dwellers, and in your house nothing remains to be given to the brahmins.
3.30.14
यदिदं वैश्वदेवान्ते सायं प्रातः प्रदीयते ।
तद्दत्त्वाऽतिथिभृत्येभ्योराजञ्शिष्टेनजीवसि ॥ ३.३०.१४ ॥
That which is offered each morning and evening at the end of the Vaiśvadeva rite, having given it to guests and servants, O king, you live on what remains.
3.30.15
इष्टयः पशुबन्धाश्च काम्यनैमित्तिकाश्च ये ।
वर्तन्ते पाकयज्ञाश्च सदा यज्ञाश्च तेऽनघ ॥ ३.३०.१५ ॥
O sinless one, your iṣṭi offerings and animal sacrifices, your wish-motivated and occasional rites, the domestic cooking-offerings, and your other sacrifices all continue always.
3.30.16
अस्मिन्नपि महारण्ये विजने दस्युसेविते ।
राष्ट्रादपेत्य वसतो धर्मस्ते नावसीदति ॥ ३.३०.१६ ॥
Even in this great, desolate forest frequented by bandits, dwelling far from the kingdom, your dharma does not falter.
3.30.17
अश्वमेधो राजसूयः पौण्डरीकोऽथ गोसवः ।
इष्टास्त्वया महायज्ञाबहवोऽन्ये सदक्षिणाः ॥ ३.३०.१७ ॥
The horse sacrifice, the royal consecration, the Puṇḍarīka and the Gosava, and many other great sacrifices with their fees, were performed by you.
3.30.18
राजन्परीतया बुद्ध्या विषमेऽक्षपराजये ।
पार्थ मित्राणि चास्मांश्च वसूनि च पराजितः ॥ ३.३०.१८ ॥
O king, O son of Pṛthā, your mind was bewildered at the defeat by dice in the unequal game, and so you lost your friends, us, and your wealth.
3.30.19
ऋजोर्मृदोर्बदान्यस्य धीमतः सत्यवादिनः ।
कथमक्षव्यसनजा बुद्धिरापतिता तव ॥ ३.३०.१९ ॥
How has this mind, born of addiction to dice, come upon you, upright, gentle, generous, wise and truthful as you are?
3.30.20
अतीव मोह आयाति मनश् परिदूयते ।
निशाम्य व्यसनं पार्थ तवेदमतिदुःसहम् ॥ ३.३०.२० ॥
O son of Pṛthā, seeing this misfortune of yours, so hard to bear, a great bewilderment comes over me and my mind is deeply tormented.
3.30.21
अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम् ।
ईश्वरस्य वशे लोकस्तिष्ठते नात्मनो यथा ॥ ३.३०.२१ ॥
In this matter they also recount this ancient tale: the world abides under the power of the Lord, not under its own power.
3.30.22
धातैव खलु भूतानां सुखदुःखे प्रियाप्रिये ।
ददाति सर्वमीशानः पुरस्ताच्छुक्रमुच्चरन् ॥ ३.३०.२२ ॥
Indeed the Creator alone bestows on beings pleasure and pain, the dear and the not-dear; the Lord, proclaiming what is to come beforehand, gives all things.
3.30.23
यथा दारुमयीं योषां नरो धीरः समाहितः ।
इङ्ग्यत्यङ्गमङ्गानि तथा राजन्निमाः प्रजाः ॥ ३.३०.२३ ॥
As a steady and attentive man moves the limbs of a wooden puppet, so, O king, are these creatures moved.
3.30.24
आकाश इव भूतानि व्याप्य सर्वाणि भारत ।
ईश्वरो विदधातीह कल्याणं यच्च पापकम् ॥ ३.३०.२४ ॥
O descendant of Bharata, as space pervades all beings, so the Lord here ordains whatever is good and whatever is evil.
3.30.25
शकुनिस्तन्तुबद्धो वा नीयतेऽयमनीश्वरः ।
ईश्वरस्य वशे तिष्ठन्नान्येषामात्मनः प्रभुः ॥ ३.३०.२५ ॥
Like a bird bound by a thread, or a powerless creature, this man is led away; standing in the power of the Lord, he is master neither of himself nor of others.
3.30.26
मणिः सूत्र इव प्रोतो नस्योत इव गोवृषः ।
धातुरादेशमन्वेति तन्मयो हि तदर्पणः ॥ ३.३०.२६ ॥
Like a jewel strung on a thread, or a bull led by the nose-rope, he follows the command of the Creator; wholly absorbed in him, he is surrendered to him.
3.30.27
नात्माथीनो मनुष्योऽयं कालं भजतिं कंचन ।
स्रोतसो मध्यमापन्नः कूलवृक्ष इव च्युतः ॥ ३.३०.२७ ॥
This man is not dependent on himself; he cannot enjoy any time at all. Caught in the middle of a stream, like a riverbank tree uprooted, he is swept away.
3.30.28
अज्ञो जन्तुरनीशोऽयमात्मनः सुखदुःखयोः ।
ईश्वरप्रेरितो गच्छेत्स्वर्गं नरकमेव च ॥ ३.३०.२८ ॥
This ignorant creature has no power over its own pleasure and pain; impelled by the Lord, it goes to heaven or to hell.
3.30.29
यथा वायोस्तृणाग्राणि वशं यान्ति बलीयसः ।
धातुरेवं वशं यान्ति सर्वभूतानि भारत ॥ ३.३०.२९ ॥
As the tips of blades of grass go under the power of a mighty wind, so, O Bhārata, all beings go under the power of the Creator.
3.30.30
आर्ये कर्मणि युञ्जानः पापे वा पुनरीश्वः ।
व्याप्य भूतानि चरते न चायमिति लक्ष्यते ॥ ३.३०.३० ॥
That Lord, who sets one to noble deeds or to sinful ones, pervades all beings and moves among them, yet he is not perceived as 'this one'.
3.30.31
हेतुमात्रमिदं धातुः शरीरं क्षेत्रसंज्ञितम् ।
येन कारयते कर्म शुभाशुभफलं विभुः ॥ ३.३०.३१ ॥
This body, called the field, is merely an instrument of the Creator, by which the all-powerful one makes beings perform actions bearing good and evil fruits.
3.30.32
पश्य मायाप्रभावोऽयमीश्वरेण यथा कृतः ।
यो हन्ति भूतैर्भूतानि मोहयित्वाऽऽत्ममायया ॥ ३.३०.३२ ॥
Behold how the power of illusion has been wrought by the Lord: having deluded beings by his own illusion, he slays beings through beings.
3.30.33
अन्यथा परिदृष्टानि मुनिभिस्तत्त्वदर्शिभिः ।
अन्यथा परिवर्तन्ते वेगा इव नभस्वतः ॥ ३.३०.३३ ॥
Things seen by the sages who know the truth appear otherwise; they change otherwise, like the swift currents of the wind.
3.30.34
अन्यथैव हि वर्तन्ते पुरुषास्तानि तानि च ।
अन्यथैव प्रभुस्तानि करोति विकरोति च ॥ ३.३०.३४ ॥
Men too behave otherwise toward various things, and the lord makes those things otherwise, and alters them.
3.30.35
यथा काष्ठेन वा काष्ठमश्मानं चाश्मना पुनः ।
अयसा चाप्ययश्छिन्द्यान्निर्विचेष्टमचेतनम् ॥ ३.३०.३५ ॥
Just as wood might cut wood, or stone cut stone, and again iron cut iron, a motionless and unconscious thing.
3.30.36
एवं स भगवान्देवः स्वयंभूः प्रपितामहः ।
निहन्ति भूतैर्भूतानि छद्म कृत्वा युधिष्ठिर ॥ ३.३०.३६ ॥
Thus that blessed god, the self-existent great-grandfather, O Yudhiṣṭhira, having made a pretence, slays beings through beings.
3.30.37
संप्रयोज्य वियोज्यायं कामकारकरः प्रभुः ।
क्रीडते भगवान्भूतैर्बालः क्रीडनकैरिव ॥ ३.३०.३७ ॥
Having joined and separated beings, this lord who does as he wills plays with creatures as a child plays with toys.
3.30.38
न मातृपितृवद्राजन्धाता भूतेषु वर्तते ।
रोषादिव प्रवृत्तो।़यं यथाऽयमितरो जनः ॥ ३.३०.३८ ॥
O king, the creator does not behave toward beings as a mother or father does; he acts as if driven by anger, like any other ordinary person.
3.30.39
आर्याञ्शीलवो दृष्ट्वा हीमतो वृत्तिकर्शितान् ।
अनार्यान्सुखिनश्चैव विह्वलानिव चिन्तये ॥ ३.३०.३९ ॥
Seeing the noble, virtuous, modest ones weakened by their livelihood, and the ignoble ones happy, I brood as though distraught.
3.30.40
तवेमामापदं दृष्ट्वा समृद्धिं च सुयोधने ।
धातारं गर्हये पार्थ विषमं योऽनुपश्यति ॥ ३.३०.४० ॥
O Pārtha, seeing this misfortune of yours and the prosperity of Suyodhana, I blame the creator who looks upon the world with partiality.
3.30.41
आर्यशास्त्रातिगे क्रूरे लुब्धे धर्मापचायिनि ।
धार्तराष्ट्रे श्रियं दत्त्वा धाता किं फलमश्नुते ॥ ३.३०.४१ ॥
What fruit does the creator reap by bestowing prosperity upon the son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, who transgresses the noble scriptures, is cruel, greedy, and violates dharma?
3.30.42
कर्मचेत्कृतमन्वेति कर्तारं नान्यमृच्छति ।
कर्मणा तेन पापेन लिप्यते नूनमीश्वरः ॥ ३.३०.४२ ॥
If the deed done follows only its doer and reaches no other, then surely the Lord is stained by that evil deed.
3.30.43
अथ कर्मकृतं पापं न चेत्कर्तारमृच्छति ।
कारणं बलमेवेह जनाञ्शोचामि दुर्बलान् ॥ ३.३०.४३ ॥
If the sin committed does not reach its doer, then in this world strength alone is the cause; I grieve for the weak people.