Mahābhārata · Adhyāya 5.41
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5.41.1
अनुक्तं यदि ते किञ्चिद्वाचा विदुर विद्यते ।
तन्मे शुश्रूषतो ब्रूहि विचित्राणि हि भाषसे ॥ ५.४१.१ ॥
Vidura, if there is anything still unspoken in your speech, tell it to me as I listen; for you speak of wondrous things.
5.41.2
धृतराष्ट्र कुमारो वै यः पुराणः सनातनः ।
तनत्सुजातः प्रोवाच मृत्युर्नास्तीति भारत ॥ ५.४१.२ ॥
Dhṛtarāṣṭra, that ancient and eternal youth, Sanatsujāta, is the one who declared that there is no death, O Bhārata.
5.41.3
स ते गुह्यान्प्रकाशांश्च सर्वान्हृदयसंश्रयान् ।
प्रवक्ष्यति महाराज सर्वबुद्धिमतां वरः ॥ ५.४१.३ ॥
He will explain to you all the secret and manifest things that abide in the heart, O great king; he is the best of all the wise.
5.41.4
किं त्वं न वेद तद्भूयो यन्मे ब्रूयात्सनातनः ।
त्वमेव विदुर ब्रूहि प्रज्ञाशेषोऽस्ति चेत्तव ॥ ५.४१.४ ॥
Do you not know what the Eternal One might say to me again? Vidura, if any remnant of wisdom is in you, you yourself speak.
5.41.5
शूद्रयोनावहं जातो नातोऽन्यद्वक्तुमुत्सहे ।
कुमारस्य तु याबुद्धिर्वेद तां शाश्वतीमहम् ॥ ५.४१.५ ॥
Born of a Śūdra womb, I do not dare to speak of anything else; yet the eternal understanding of the youth, that I do know.
5.41.6
ब्राह्मीं हि योनिमापन्नः सगुह्यमपि यो वदेत् ।
न तेन गर्ह्यो देवानां तस्मादेतद्ब्रवीमि ते ॥ ५.४१.६ ॥
He who, born in a brahmin womb, speaks even secret things is not blamed by the gods; therefore I tell you this.
5.41.7
ब्रवीहि विदुर त्वं मे पुराणं तं सनातनम् ।
कथमेतेन देहेन स्यादिहैव समागमः ॥ ५.४१.७ ॥
Vidura, tell me that ancient, eternal (knowledge). How could union with it come about here, while in this very body?
5.41.8
चिन्तयामास विदुरस्तभृषिं शंसितव्रतम् ।
स च तच्चिन्तितं ज्ञात्वा दर्शयामास भारत ॥ ५.४१.८ ॥
Vidura called to mind that sage of praised vows. And he, knowing what Vidura had thought, revealed himself, O Bhārata.
5.41.9
स चैनं प्रतिजग्राह विधिदृष्टेन कर्मणा ।
सुखोपविष्टं विश्रान्तमथैनं विदुरोऽब्रवीत् ॥ ५.४१.९ ॥
He received him with the rite prescribed by rule. And when the sage was seated comfortably and had rested, Vidura then spoke to him.
5.41.10
भगवन्संशयः कश्चिद्धृतराष्ट्रस्य मानसः ।
यो न शक्यो मया वक्तुं त्वमस्मै वक्तुमर्हसि ॥ ५.४१.१० ॥
Venerable one, there is a certain doubt in Dhṛtarāṣṭra's mind which I am not able to speak; you are fit to put it to him.
5.41.11
यं श्रत्वाऽयं मनुष्येन्द्रः सर्वदुःखातिगो भवेत् ॥ ५.४१.११ ॥
Hearing which, this lord of men might become one who has passed beyond all sorrow.
5.41.12
लाभालाभौ प्रियद्वेष्यौ यथैनं न जरान्तकौ ।
विषहेरन्भयामर्षौ श्रुत्पिपासे मदोद्भवौ ।
अरतिश्चैव तन्द्री च कामक्रोधौ क्षयोदयौ ॥ ५.४१.१२ ॥
Gain and loss, pleasure and aversion, old age and death — may these not trouble him; fear and anger, hunger and thirst, the (disorders) born of intoxication, discontent and drowsiness, desire and anger, decline and rise.