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Book 12 – Chapter 105
BORI CE: 12-105-001 युधिष्ठिर उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-104-001 युधिष्ठिर उवाच धार्मिकोऽर्थानसम्प्राप्य राजामात्यैः प्रबाधितः |
M. N. Dutt: How should a righteous king, who is proposed by his own officers whose treasury and army are not under his control, and who has no wealth, act for acquiring happiness?" |
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BORI CE: 12-105-002 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-104-002 भीष्म उवाच अत्रायं क्षेमदर्शीय इतिहासोऽनुगीयते |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said “Regarding it the story of Kshemadarshin is often related. I shall describe that story to you. Listen to it, O Yudhishthira. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-003 क्षेमदर्शं नृपसुतं यत्र क्षीणबलं पुरा |
MN DUTT: 07-104-003 क्षेमदर्शी नृपसुतो यत्र क्षीणबलः पुरा |
M. N. Dutt: We have heard that in days of yore, when prince Kshemadarshin had become weak in strength and fallen into great distress, he went to the sage Kalakavrikshiva and saluting him humbly, said him these words, |
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BORI CE: 12-105-004 अर्थेषु भागी पुरुष ईहमानः पुनः पुनः BORI CE: 12-105-005 अन्यत्र मरणात्स्तेयादन्यत्र परसंश्रयात् |
MN DUTT: 07-104-004 राजोवाच अर्थेषु भागी पुरुष ईहमानः पुनः पुनः |
M. N. Dutt: What should a person like me who is worthy to have wealth, but who has, after repeated attempts, failed to regain his kingdom, do, O Brahmana, excepting suicide, thieving and robbery, secking refuge with others, and other acts of meanness of a similar nature? O best of men, tell me this. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-006 व्याधिना चाभिपन्नस्य मानसेनेतरेण वा |
MN DUTT: 07-104-005 व्याधिना चाभिपन्नस्य मानसेनेतरेण वा |
M. N. Dutt: One like you who are conversant with morality and full of gratefulness is the refuge of a person suffering from disease mental or physical. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-007 निर्विद्य हि नरः कामान्नियम्य सुखमेधते |
MN DUTT: 07-104-006 निर्विद्यति नरः कामानिर्विद्य सुखमेधते |
M. N. Dutt: Man should renounce his desires. By acting in that way, by casting off joy and sorrow, and acquiring the wealth of knowledge, he succeeds in acquiring happiness. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-008 सुखमर्थाश्रयं येषामनुशोचामि तानहम् |
MN DUTT: 07-104-007 सुखपाश्रयं येषामनुशोचामि तानहम् |
M. N. Dutt: I am sorry for them who follow worldly happiness accruing from wealth. All that, however, disappears like a dream. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-009 दुष्करं बत कुर्वन्ति महतोऽर्थांस्त्यजन्ति ये |
MN DUTT: 07-104-008 दुष्करं बत कुर्वन्ति महतोऽस्त्यिजन्ति ये |
M. N. Dutt: They who can renounce vast wealth achieve a most difficult task. As for ourselves we are unable to renounce that wealth which exists no longer. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-010 इमामवस्थां संप्राप्तं दीनमार्तं श्रियश्च्युतम् |
MN DUTT: 07-104-009 इमामवस्थां सम्प्राप्तं दीनमार्तं श्रिया च्युतम् |
M. N. Dutt: I am shorn of prosperity and have been reduced to a miserable and unhappy plight! Instruct me, O Brahmana, what happiness I may yet try to secure. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-011 कौसल्येनैवमुक्तस्तु राजपुत्रेण धीमता |
MN DUTT: 07-104-010 कौसल्येनैवमुक्तस्तु राजपुत्रेण धीमता |
M. N. Dutt: Thus accosted by the intelligent prince of Koshala, the sage Kalakavrikshiya gave the following answer, |
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BORI CE: 12-105-012 पुरस्तादेव ते बुद्धिरियं कार्या विजानतः |
MN DUTT: 07-104-011 मुनिरुवाच पुरस्तादेव ते बुद्धिरियं कार्या विजानता |
M. N. Dutt: The sage said-You have, it appears, already understood it. Endued with knowledge as you are, you should act as you think. Your belief is correct, namely,-All this that I see is brittle, myself as also everything that I have! |
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BORI CE: 12-105-013 यत्किंचिन्मन्यसेऽस्तीति सर्वं नास्तीति विद्धि तत् |
MN DUTT: 07-104-012 यत् किंचिन्मन्यसेऽस्तीति सर्वं नास्तीति विद्धि तत् |
M. N. Dutt: Know, O prince, that those things which you consider as existing do not in reality exist. The wise know this very well, and are, therefore, never pained with the distress whatever that may be. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-014 यद्धि भूतं भविष्यच्च ध्रुवं तन्न भविष्यति |
MN DUTT: 07-104-013 यद्धि भूतं भविष्यं च सर्वं तन्न भविष्यति |
M. N. Dutt: What has taken place and what will bring to pass are all unreal, When you will know this which should be known by all, you will be shorn of unrighteousness. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-015 यच्च पूर्वे समाहारे यच्च पूर्वतरे परे |
MN DUTT: 07-104-014 यच्च पूर्वं समाहारे यच्च पूर्वं परे परे |
M. N. Dutt: Whatever things had been acquired by those that came before, and whatever acquired by their successors, have all perished. Thinking of all this, who is there that will give way to grief? |
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BORI CE: 12-105-016 भूत्वा च न भवत्येतदभूत्वा च भवत्यपि |
MN DUTT: 07-104-015 भूत्वा च न भवत्येतदभूत्वा च भविष्यति |
M. N. Dutt: Things that were, are no more. Things that are, will again be no more. Grief cannot restore them. One should not, therefore, succumb to grief. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-017 क्व नु तेऽद्य पिता राजन्क्व नु तेऽद्य पितामहः |
MN DUTT: 07-104-016 क्व नु तेऽद्य पिता राजन् क्व नु तेऽद्य पितामहः |
M. N. Dutt: Where, O king, is your father to-day and where your grandfather? To-day you see them not, nor do they now see you! |
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BORI CE: 12-105-018 आत्मनोऽध्रुवतां पश्यंस्तांस्त्वं किमनुशोचसि |
MN DUTT: 07-104-017 आत्मनोऽध्रुवतां पश्यंस्तांस्त्वं किमनुशोचसि |
M. N. Dutt: Meditating on your own instability, why do you grieve for them? Think with the help of your intelligence, and you will understand that you will cease to be! |
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BORI CE: 12-105-019 अहं च त्वं च नृपते शत्रवः सुहृदश्च ते |
MN DUTT: 07-104-018 अहं च त्वं च नृपते सुहृदः शत्रवश्च ते |
M. N. Dutt: Myself, yourself, O king, your friends, and your foes, shall forsooth, cease to be. Indeed, everything will cease to be. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-020 ये तु विंशतिवर्षा वै त्रिंशद्वर्षाश्च मानवाः |
MN DUTT: 07-104-019 ये तु विंशतिवर्षा वै त्रिंशद्वर्षाश्च मानवाः |
M. N. Dutt: Those men who are now twenty or thirty years old, will, forsooth, all die within the next hundred years. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-021 अपि चेन्महतो वित्ताद्विप्रमुच्येत पूरुषः |
MN DUTT: 07-104-020 अपि चेन्महतो वित्तान्न प्रमुच्येत पूरुषः |
M. N. Dutt: If a man cannot willingly relinquish his immense wealth, he should then try to think that his belongings, are not his own and by that means seek to do good to himself. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-022 अनागतं यन्न ममेति विद्या;दतिक्रान्तं यन्न ममेति विद्यात् |
MN DUTT: 07-104-021 अनागतं यन्न ममेति विद्यादतिक्रान्तं यन्न ममेति विद्यात् |
M. N. Dutt: Future acquisitions should be considered by one as not one's own. Lost properties, should also be regarded by one as not his own. Destiny should be deemed as all powerful. They who think in this wise are considered wise. This mood of regarding all things is an attribute of the good. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-023 अनाढ्याश्चापि जीवन्ति राज्यं चाप्यनुशासते |
MN DUTT: 07-104-022 अनाढ्याश्चापि जीवन्ति राज्यं चाप्यनुशासति |
M. N. Dutt: Many persons who are equal of superior to you in intelligence and inanliness, though bereft of wealth, are not kings but are still alive. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-024 न च त्वमिव शोचन्ति तस्मात्त्वमपि मा शुचः |
MN DUTT: 07-104-023 न च त्वमिव शोचन्ति तस्मात् त्वमपि मा शुचः |
M. N. Dutt: They are not, like you. They do not indulge in grief like you. Therefore, ceases to grieve in this wise! Are you not superior to those men, or at least equal to them in intelligence and inanliness? |
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BORI CE: 12-105-025 राजपुत्र उवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-104-024 राजोवाच यादृच्छिकं सर्वमासीत् तद् राज्यमिति चिन्तये |
M. N. Dutt: The king said I consider the kingdom which I had with all its parapharnalia to have been acquired by me without any exertion. Omnipotent Time, however, twice-born one, has swept it away. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-026 तस्यैवं ह्रियमाणस्य स्रोतसेव तपोधन |
MN DUTT: 07-104-025 तस्यैव ह्रियमाणस्य स्त्रोतसेव तपोधन |
M. N. Dutt: The result, however, that I see, of my kingdom having been carried away by Time as by a stream, is that I am obliged to subsist upon whatever I get as alms. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-027 मुनिरुवाच |
MN DUTT: 07-104-026 मुनिरुवाच अनागतमतीतं च याथातथ्यविनिश्चयात् |
M. N. Dutt: The sage said Actuated by the knowledge of what is true, one should never grieve for either the past or the future. Be you of such a mood of mind, o prince of Koshala, regarding every affair that may arrest your attention! |
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BORI CE: 12-105-028 अवाप्यान्कामयस्वार्थान्नानवाप्यान्कदाचन |
MN DUTT: 07-104-027 अवाप्यान् कामयन्नर्थान् नानवाप्यान् कदाचन प्रत्युत्पन्नाननुभवनं मा शुचस्त्वमनागतान् |
M. N. Dutt: Wishing to possess only that which is obtainable and not what is unobtainable, do you enjoy your present belongings and never grieve for what is absent. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-029 यथा लब्धोपपन्नार्थस्तथा कौसल्य रंस्यसे |
MN DUTT: 07-104-028 यथालब्धोपपन्नाथस्तथा कौसल्य रंस्यसे |
M. N. Dutt: Be you satisfied, O prince of Koshala, with whatever you can easily get. Even if divested of prosperity, do not grieve for it but try to maintain a pure character. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-030 पुरस्ताद्भूतपूर्वत्वाद्धीनभाग्यो हि दुर्मतिः |
MN DUTT: 07-104-029 पुरस्ताद् भूतपूर्वत्वाद्धीनभाग्यो हि दुर्मतिः |
M. N. Dutt: Only an unfortunate and foolish wight when divested of former prosperity, blames the supreme Ordainer, without being contented with his present position. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-031 अनर्हानपि चैवान्यान्मन्यते श्रीमतो जनान् BORI CE: 12-105-032 ईर्ष्यातिच्छेदसंपन्ना राजन्पुरुषमानिनः |
MN DUTT: 07-104-030 अनर्हानपि चैवान्यान्मन्यते श्रीमतो जनान् |
M. N. Dutt: Such a person consider others however undeserving, as men blessed with prosperity. Therefore, those who are possessed of malice and vanity and puffed up with a sense of egoism, suffer more misery still. You however, O king, are not sullied by such vices. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-033 सहस्व श्रियमन्येषां यद्यपि त्वयि नास्ति सा |
MN DUTT: 07-104-031 सहस्व श्रियमन्येषां यद्यपि त्वयि नास्ति सा |
M. N. Dutt: Bear the prosperity of others, inspite of your being divested of the same. Clever and expert men succeed in enjoying the prosperity of their enemies. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-034 श्रियं च पुत्रपौत्रं च मनुष्या धर्मचारिणः |
MN DUTT: 07-104-032 श्रियं च पुत्रपौत्रं च मनुष्या धर्मचारिणः |
M. N. Dutt: Prosperity relinquishes the person that hates others. Pious and wise men conversant with the duties of Yoga renounce prosperity and sons and grandsons of their own accord. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-035 बहु संकसुकं दृष्ट्वा विवित्सासाधनेन च |
MN DUTT: 07-104-033 बहुसंकुसुकं दृष्ट्वा विधित्सासाधनेन च |
M. N. Dutt: Others, considering earthly possessions to be exceedingly unstable and unobtainable, and dependent upon continued exertion, are also scen to renounce it. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-036 त्वं पुनः प्राज्ञरूपः सन्कृपणं परितप्यसे |
MN DUTT: 07-104-034 त्त्वं पुनः प्राज्ञरूप: सन् कृपणं परितप्यसे |
M. N. Dutt: You seem to be endued with wisdom. Why, then, do you grieve so piteously, seeking for things which should not be sought for, since they are unstable and dependent on others? |
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BORI CE: 12-105-037 तां बुद्धिमुपजिज्ञासुस्त्वमेवैनान्परित्यज |
MN DUTT: 07-104-035 तां बुद्धिमुपजिज्ञासुस्त्क्मेवैतान् परित्यज |
M. N. Dutt: You wish to know the temperament of mind which would give you happiness. The advice I give you is to renounce all objects of desire! Objects which should be discarded appear to one as those which he should seek to secure, while those which should be secured appear to him as objects which should be avoided. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-038 अर्थायैव हि केषांचिद्धननाशो भवत्युत |
MN DUTT: 07-104-036 अर्थायैव हि केषांचिद् धननाशो भवत्युत |
M. N. Dutt: Some loss their wealth while seeking the same. Others consider wealth, as the source of endless happiness, and, therefore pursue it eagerly. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-039 रममाणः श्रिया कश्चिन्नान्यच्छ्रेयोऽभिमन्यते |
MN DUTT: 07-104-037 रममाणः श्रिया कश्चिन्नान्यच्छ्रेयोऽभिमन्यते |
M. N. Dutt: Some again, overjoyed with wealth, think that there is nothing superior to it. While cagerly seeking for the acquisition of wealth, such a person loses all other objects of life. renounce |
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BORI CE: 12-105-040 कृच्छ्राल्लब्धमभिप्रेतं यदा कौसल्य नश्यति |
MN DUTT: 07-104-038 कृच्छाल्लब्धमभिप्रेतं यदि कौसल्य नश्यति |
M. N. Dutt: If, O prince of Koshala, a person loses that wealth which had been acquired with difficulty and after which he had hankered, he then, overcome by despair, gives up all desire of wealth. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-041 धर्ममेकेऽभिपद्यन्ते कल्याणाभिजना नराः |
MN DUTT: 07-104-039 धर्ममेकेऽभिपद्यन्ते कल्याणाभिजना नराः |
M. N. Dutt: Some righteous and highly-born persons devote themselves to the acquisitions of virtue. These every king of worldly happiness from securing the same in the other world. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-042 जीवितं संत्यजन्त्येके धनलोभपरा नराः |
MN DUTT: 07-104-040 जीवितं संत्यजन्त्येके धनलोभपरा जनाः |
M. N. Dutt: Some persons sacrifice life itself, actuated by the desire of acquiring wealth. These do not think that life without wealth has any use. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-043 पश्य तेषां कृपणतां पश्य तेषामबुद्धिताम् |
MN DUTT: 07-104-041 पश्य तेषां कृपणतां पश्य तेषामबुद्धिताम् |
M. N. Dutt: Mark at their pitiable condition! Witness their foolishness! When life is so short and uncertain, these men, actuated by ignorance, seek wealth. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-044 संचये च विनाशान्ते मरणान्ते च जीविते |
MN DUTT: 07-104-042 संचये च विनाशान्ते मरणान्ते च जीवित |
M. N. Dutt: Who is there that would busy himself with boarding when destruction is its end, hanker after life when death is its end, and after union when separation is its end? |
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BORI CE: 12-105-045 धनं वा पुरुषं राजन्पुरुषो वा पुनर्धनम् |
MN DUTT: 07-104-043 धनं वा पुरुषो राजन् पुरुषं वा पुनर्धनम् |
M. N. Dutt: Sometimes man renounces wealth, and sometimes wealth renounces man. What man endued with knowledge is there who would grieve at the loss of wealth? There are many other persons in the world who lose wealth and friends. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-046 अन्येषामपि नश्यन्ति सुहृदश्च धनानि च |
MN DUTT: 07-104-044 पश्य वुद्ध्या मनुष्याणां राजन्नापदमात्मनः |
M. N. Dutt: See, O king, with your intelligence, and you will come to learn that the calamities which befall men are all owing to their own conduct! Do you, therefore, control your senses, mind and speech. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-047 प्रतिषिद्धानवाप्येषु दुर्लभेष्वहितेषु च |
MN DUTT: 07-104-045 प्रतिषेद्धा न चाप्येषु दुर्बलेष्वहितेष्वपि |
M. N. Dutt: For, if these become weak and productive of evil there is no man who can stand aloof from temptation of external objects by which he is always surrounded. As no one can from a good idea of the past nor of the future, there being many intervals of time and place, a person like you who are endued with such wisdom and such prowess, never grieve for union and separation, for good or evil. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-048 अल्पमिच्छन्नचपलो मृदुर्दान्तः सुसंशितः |
MN DUTT: 07-104-046 अल्पमिच्छन्नचपलो मृदुर्दान्तः सुनिश्चितः |
M. N. Dutt: A person so mild by nature, of controlled self, and settled conclusions, and observant of Brahmacharya vows, never grieve and never becomes restless from the desire of acquiring from the fear of losing anything insignificant. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-049 न त्वेव जाल्मीं कापालीं वृत्तिमेषितुमर्हसि |
MN DUTT: 07-104-047 न त्वेव जाल्मी कापाली वृत्तिमेषितुमर्हसि |
M. N. Dutt: It is not proper that such a man should follow a deceitful life of mendicancy, a life that is sinful and wicked and cruel and which benefits only a human wretch. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-050 अपि मूलफलाजीवो रमस्वैको महावने |
MN DUTT: 07-104-048 अपि मूलफलाजीवो रमस्वैको महावने |
M. N. Dutt: Do you go to the great forest and lead a life of happiness there, all alone and subsisting upon fruits and roots, restraining words and soul, and filled with mercy for all creatures. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-051 सदृशं पण्डितस्यैतदीषादन्तेन दन्तिना |
MN DUTT: 07-104-049 सदृशं पण्डितस्यैतदीषादन्तेन दन्तिना |
M. N. Dutt: Or He, who cheerfully leads such a life in the forest, having elephants of large tusks for companions, with no human being by his side, and contented with the produce of the forest, is said to follow the footsteps of the wise. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-052 महाह्रदः संक्षुभित आत्मनैव प्रसीदति |
MN DUTT: 07-104-050 महाह्रदः संक्षुभित आत्मनैव प्रसीदति |
M. N. Dutt: A large lake, when it becomes disturbed, becomes silent itself. Likewise, a wise men, when disturbed in such matters, becomes tranquil of himself. I see that a person, who has been reduced to such a plight as yours, may live happily even thus. |
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BORI CE: 12-105-053 असंभवे श्रियो राजन्हीनस्य सचिवादिभिः |
MN DUTT: 07-104-051 असम्भवे श्रियो राजन् हीनस्य सचिवादिभिः |
M. N. Dutt: When it is impossible for you to recover your prosperity and when you are without ministers and counsellors, such a course is open to you. Do you expect to reap any benefit by depending upon destiny? |
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