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Book 12 – Chapter 168
BORI CE: 12-168-001 युधिष्ठिर उवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-001-001 युधिष्ठिर उवाच धर्माः पितामहेनोक्ता राजधर्माश्रिताः शुभाः |
M. N. Dutt: Yudhishthira said You have, O grandfather, described the sacred duties of kings regarding the persons in distress. O king, you should tell me now those foremost of duties of those who lead the (four) modes of life. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-002 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-001-002 भीष्म उवाच सर्वत्र विहितो धर्मः स्वर्ग्यः सत्यफलं तपः |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said Religion has many doors. The observance of the duties sanctioned by religion can never be useless. Duties have been laid down regarding every mode of life. The fruits of Penance with regard to the development of the Soul, are to be had in this worid. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-003 यस्मिन्यस्मिंस्तु विनये यो यो याति विनिश्चयम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-003 यस्मिन् यस्मिस्तु विषये यो यो याति विनिश्चयम् |
M. N. Dutt: The object to which one devotes oneself, whatever it may be, O Bharata, and nothing else, appears to as the highest of acquisitions fraught with the greatest of blessings. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-004 यथा यथा च पर्येति लोकतन्त्रमसारवत् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-004 यथा यथा च पर्येति लोकतन्त्रमसारवत् |
M. N. Dutt: When one meditates properly, one comes to know that the things of this world are useless one as straw. Forsooth, one is then freed from attachment of those things. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-005 एवं व्यवसिते लोके बहुदोषे युधिष्ठिर |
MN DUTT: 08-001-005 एवं व्यवसिते लोके बहुदोषे युधिष्ठिर |
M. N. Dutt: When the world, O Yudhishthira, which is full of shortcomings, is so framed, every intelligent man, should try to acquire the liberation of his soul. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-006 युधिष्ठिर उवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-001-006 युधिष्ठिर उवाच नष्टे धने वा दारे वा पुत्रे पितरि वा मृते |
M. N. Dutt: Yudhishthira said Tell me, O grandfather, by what condition of mind should one kill his grief when he loses his riches, or his wife, or son, or father. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-007 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-001-007 भीष्म उवाच नष्ट धने वा दारे वा पुत्रे पितरि वा मृते |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said, When one's wealth is lost, or one's wife or son or father is dead, he certainly says to oneself,-Alas, it is a great sorrow,-But then one should, by the help of meditation, try to kill that grief. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-008 अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-008 अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम् |
M. N. Dutt: Regarding it is mentioned the old story of the speech that a twice-born friend of his, coming to Senajit's court, made to that king. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-009 पुत्रशोकाभिसंतप्तं राजानं शोकविह्वलम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-009 पुत्रशोकाभिसंतप्तं राजानं शोकविह्वलम् |
M. N. Dutt: Seeing the monarch stricken with grief and burning with sorrow on account of the death of his son, the Brahmana said to that king of very |
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BORI CE: 12-168-010 किं नु खल्वसि मूढस्त्वं शोच्यः किमनुशोचसि |
MN DUTT: 08-001-010 किं नु मुह्यसि मूढस्त्वं शोच्यः किमनुशोचसि |
M. N. Dutt: Why are you stupefied? You are without any intelligence. You are yourself an object of grief, why do you grieve (for others)? A few days hence others will grieve for you, and in their turn they will be grieved for by others still. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-011 त्वं चैवाहं च ये चान्ये त्वां राजन्पर्युपासते |
MN DUTT: 08-001-011 त्वं चैवाहं च ये चान्ये त्वामुपासन्ति पार्थिव |
M. N. Dutt: Yourself, myself, and others who wait upon you, O king, shall all repair whence all of us have come. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-012 सेनजिदुवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-001-012 सेनजिदुवाच का बुद्धिः किं तपो विप्र कः समाधिस्तपोधना किं ज्ञानं किं श्रुतं चैव यत् प्राप्य न विषीदसि |
M. N. Dutt: Senajit said What is that intelligence, what that penance, O learned Brahmana, what that concentration of mind, O you having asceticism for wealth, what that knowledge, and what that learning, by gaining which you do not give way to grief? |
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BORI CE: 12-168-013 ब्राह्मण उवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-001-013 ब्राह्मण उवाच पश्य भूतानि दुःखेन व्यतिषिक्तानि सर्वशः |
M. N. Dutt: The Brahmana said See, all creatures-the superior, the middling, and the inferiorm-on account of their respective acts, and entangled in sorrow. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-014 यथा मम तथान्येषामिति बुद्ध्या न मे व्यथा |
Corresponding verse not found in M. N. Dutt's version. |
Corresponding verse not found in M. N. Dutt's version. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 08-001-014 आत्मापि चायं न मम सर्वा वा पृथिवी मम |
M. N. Dutt: I do not consider even my own self to be mine. On the other hand, I consider the whole world to be mine. I again consider all this as much mine as it belongs to others. Grief cannot attack me for this thought. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-015 यथा काष्ठं च काष्ठं च समेयातां महोदधौ |
MN DUTT: 08-001-015 एतां बुद्धिमहं प्राप्य न प्रहृष्ये न च व्यथे |
M. N. Dutt: Having gained such an understanding, I do not give way to joy or to grief. As two pieces of wood floating on the sea meet together at one time and are again separated, so is the union of (living) creatures in this world. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-016 एवं पुत्राश्च पौत्राश्च ज्ञातयो बान्धवास्तथा |
MN DUTT: 08-001-016 एवं पुत्राश्च पौत्राश्च ज्ञातयो बान्धवास्तथा |
M. N. Dutt: Sons, grandsons, kinsmen relatives, are all of this nature. One should One should never feel attachment for them, for separation with them is inevitable. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-017 अदर्शनादापतितः पुनश्चादर्शनं गतः |
MN DUTT: 08-001-017 अदर्शनादापतितः पुनश्चादर्शनं गतः |
M. N. Dutt: Your son came from an invisible quarter. He has gone away and become invisible. He did not know you. You did not know him. Who are you and for whom do you grieve. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-018 तृष्णार्तिप्रभवं दुःखं दुःखार्तिप्रभवं सुखम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-018 तृष्णार्तिप्रभवं दुःखं दुःखार्तिप्रभवं सुखम् |
M. N. Dutt: Grief is the child of the disease created by desire. Happiness again comes when the disease of desire is cured. From joy originates sorrow, and sorrow comes again and again. |
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MN DUTT: 08-001-019 सुखस्यानन्तरं दुःखं दुःखस्यानन्तरं सुखम् |
M. N. Dutt: Sorrow comes after joy, and joy after sorrow. The joys and sorrows of human beings are revolving on a wheel. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-019 सुखात्त्वं दुःखमापन्नः पुनरापत्स्यसे सुखम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-020 सुखात् त्वं दुःखमापन्न पुनरापत्स्यसे सुखम् |
M. N. Dutt: After happiness sorrow has come to you. You will again enjoy happiness for good and no one enjoys happiness for good. |
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MN DUTT: 08-001-021 शरीरमेवायतनं सुखस्य दुःखस्य चाप्यायतनं शरीरम् |
M. N. Dutt: The body is the abode of both sorrow and happiness. An embodied creature suffers the consequences of whatever acts he performs with the help of his body. |
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MN DUTT: 08-001-022 जीवितं च शरीरेण जात्यैव सह जायते |
M. N. Dutt: Life comes with the creation of the body. The two exist together, and the two die together. |
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MN DUTT: 08-001-023 स्नेहपाशैर्बहुविधैराविष्टविषया जनाः |
M. N. Dutt: Men of impure souls, attached to worldly objects by various fetters, disappear like embankments of sand in water. |
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MN DUTT: 08-001-024 स्नेहेन तिलवत् सर्वं सर्गचक्रे निपीड्यते |
M. N. Dutt: Miseries of various sorts begotten by ignorance, act like pressers of oil-seeds, for attacking all creatures for their attachments; these press them like oil-seeds in the oilmaking machine subjecting them to the round of re-births. |
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MN DUTT: 08-001-025 संचिनोत्यशुभं कर्म कलत्रापेक्षया नरः |
M. N. Dutt: Man, for the sake of his wife, commits numberless evil deeds, but suffers alone various kinds of misery both in this and the next world. |
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MN DUTT: 08-001-026 पुत्रदारकुटुम्बेषु प्रसक्ताः सर्वमानवाः |
M. N. Dutt: All men, attached to children, wives kinsmen and relatives sink in the miry sea of sorrow like wild elephants, when shom of strength, sinking in a miry slough. |
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MN DUTT: 08-001-027 पुत्रनाशे वित्तनाशे ज्ञातिसम्बन्धिनामपि |
M. N. Dutt: Indeed, O king, upon loss of wealth or son or kinsmen or relatives, man suffers great misery burning him like a forest fire. |
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MN DUTT: 08-001-028 दैवायत्तमिदं सर्वं सुखदुः :खे भवाभवौ |
M. N. Dutt: All this, viz., joy and grief, existence and non-existence depend upon destiny. One having friends as well as one having none, one having enemies as well as one having none, one having wisdom as well as one shorn of it, each and every one amongst these, enjoys happiness through destiny. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-020 नालं सुखाय सुहृदो नालं दुःखाय शत्रवः |
MN DUTT: 08-001-029 नालं सुखाय सुहृदो नालं दुःखाय शत्रवः |
M. N. Dutt: Friends are not the root of one's happiness. Enemies are not the root of one's misery. Wisdom cannot bring on wealth; wealth cannot give happiness. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-021 न बुद्धिर्धनलाभाय न जाड्यमसमृद्धये |
MN DUTT: 08-001-030 न बुद्धिर्धनलाभाय न जाड्यमसमृद्धये |
M. N. Dutt: Intelligence cannot give wealth, nor is stupidity the cause of poverty. Only a wise man, and none else, understands the order of the world. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-022 बुद्धिमन्तं च मूढं च शूरं भीरुं जडं कविम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-031 बुद्धिमन्तं च शूरं च मूढं भीरुं जडं कविम् |
M. N. Dutt: Of the intelligent, the heroic, the foolish, the cowardly, the idiotic, the earned, the weak, or the strong, happiness comes to him only for whom it is ordained. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-023 धेनुर्वत्सस्य गोपस्य स्वामिनस्तस्करस्य च |
MN DUTT: 08-001-032 धेनुर्वत्सस्य गोपस्य स्वामिनस्तस्करस्य च |
M. N. Dutt: The cow belongs to the calf, to the cowherd who is her master, and to the thief. Indeed, she is his who drinks her milk. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-024 ये च मूढतमा लोके ये च बुद्धेः परं गताः |
MN DUTT: 08-001-033 ये च मूढतमा लोके ये च बुद्धेः परं गताः |
M. N. Dutt: They whose understandings are dormant, and they who have that state of the mind which lies beyond the range of the intellect, succeed in enjoying happiness. Only they who are between these two classes, suffer misery. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-025 अन्त्येषु रेमिरे धीरा न ते मध्येषु रेमिरे |
MN DUTT: 08-001-034 अन्त्येषु रेमिरे धीरा न ते मध्येषु रेमिरे |
M. N. Dutt: The wise find pleasure in the two extremes but not in the intermediate states. The sages have said that the attainment of any of these two extremes form happiness. Misery lies in the intermediate states between the two. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-026 ये तु बुद्धिसुखं प्राप्ता द्वंद्वातीता विमत्सराः |
MN DUTT: 08-001-035 ये च बुद्धिसुखं प्राप्ता द्वन्द्वातीता विमत्सराः |
M. N. Dutt: Those who have succeeded in acquiring real happiness, and who have become freed from the pleasures and pains of this world, and who are shorn of envy, are never moved by either the accession of wealth or its loss. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-027 अथ ये बुद्धिमप्राप्ता व्यतिक्रान्ताश्च मूढताम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-036 अथ ये बुद्धिमप्राप्ता व्यतिक्रान्ताश्च मूढताम् |
M. N. Dutt: Those who have not gained that intelligence which brings on real happiness, but who have got over folly and ignorance yield to excessive joy and excessive misery. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-028 नित्यप्रमुदिता मूढा दिवि देवगणा इव |
MN DUTT: 08-001-037 नित्यं प्रमुदिता मूढा दिवि देवगणा इव |
M. N. Dutt: Men who have no ideas of right or wrong, who are beside themselves with pride and with success over others, give way to transports of delight like the celestials. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-029 सुखं दुःखान्तमालस्यं दुःखं दाक्ष्यं सुखोदयम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-038 सुखं दुःखान्तमालस्यं दुःखं दाक्ष्यं सुखोदयम् |
M. N. Dutt: Happiness must terminate in misery. Idleness is misery; while cleverness (in action) is the root of felicity. Affluence and prosperity live in a clever man, but not in an idle wight. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-030 सुखं वा यदि वा दुःखं द्वेष्यं वा यदि वा प्रियम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-039 सुखं वा यदि वा दुःखं प्रियं वा यदि वाप्रियम् |
M. N. Dutt: Be it happiness or be it misery, be it pleasant or be it otherwise, what comes to one should be enjoyed or put up with an unconquered heart. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-031 शोकस्थानसहस्राणि हर्षस्थानशतानि च |
MN DUTT: 08-001-040 शोकस्थानसहस्त्राणि भयस्थानशतानि च |
M. N. Dutt: Every day a thousand occasions for sorrow, and a hundred occasions for fear attack an ignorant and foolish man but a wise man is never so affected. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-032 बुद्धिमन्तं कृतप्रज्ञं शुश्रूषुमनसूयकम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-041 बुद्धिमन्तं कृतप्रज्ञं शुश्रूषुमनसूयकम् |
M. N. Dutt: Sorrow can never touch an intelligent man, one who has acquired wisdom, one who obeys the instructions of his elders, one who has no envy, and one who has controlled his self. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-033 एतां बुद्धिं समास्थाय गुप्तचित्तश्चरेद्बुधः |
MN DUTT: 08-001-042 एतां बुद्धिं समास्थाय गुप्तचित्तश्चरेद् बुधः |
M. N. Dutt: Depending upon such an understanding, and guarding his heart (against the influences of desire and the passions), the wise man should work on in this world. Indeed, sorrow cannot affect him who knows that Supreme Self from which everything emanate and to which everything disappears. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-034 यन्निमित्तं भवेच्छोकस्त्रासो वा दुःखमेव वा |
MN DUTT: 08-001-043 यन्निमित्तं भवेच्छोकस्तापो वा दुःखमेव च |
M. N. Dutt: The very root of grief, or heart-burning, or sorrow or of action, should, even if it be a part of one's body, the cast off. |
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MN DUTT: 08-001-044 किंचिदेव ममत्वेन यदा भवति कल्पितम् |
M. N. Dutt: That object, whatever it may be, which one considers as his own, is a source of grief and heart-burning. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-035 यद्यत्त्यजति कामानां तत्सुखस्याभिपूर्यते |
MN DUTT: 08-001-045 यद् यत् यजति कामानां तत् सुखस्याभिपूर्यते |
M. N. Dutt: If objects, of desire, are renounced they become sources of happiness. The man who follows objects of desire is ruined in that pursuit. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-036 यच्च कामसुखं लोके यच्च दिव्यं महत्सुखम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-046 यच्च कामसुखं लोके यच्च दिव्यं महत् सुखम् |
M. N. Dutt: Neither the happiness which is derived from a gratification of the senses nor that great happiness which one may enjoy in heaven, even comes up to a sixteenth part of the happiness which originates from the destruction of all desire. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-037 पूर्वदेहकृतं कर्म शुभं वा यदि वाशुभम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-047 पूर्वदेहकृतं कर्म शुभं वा यदि वाशुभम् |
M. N. Dutt: The consequences of pristine decds, right or wrong, affect the wise and the foolish, the brave and the mind. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-038 एवमेव किलैतानि प्रियाण्येवाप्रियाणि च |
MN DUTT: 08-001-048 एवमेव किलैतानि प्रियाण्येवाप्रियाणि च |
M. N. Dutt: Thus joy and sorrow, the agreeable and the disagreeable, continually revolve among living creatures. |
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MN DUTT: 08-001-049 एतां बुद्धिं समास्थाय सुखमास्ते गुणान्वितः |
M. N. Dutt: Thus knowing an intelligent and wise man lives at ease. A person should renounce all his desires, and never give way to anger. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-039 तदेवं बुद्धिमास्थाय सुखं जीवेद्गुणान्वितः |
MN DUTT: 08-001-049 एतां बुद्धिं समास्थाय सुखमास्ते गुणान्वितः MN DUTT: 08-001-050 वृत्त एष हृषि प्रौढो मृत्युरेष मनोभवः |
M. N. Dutt: Thus knowing an intelligent and wise man lives at ease. A person should renounce all his desires, and never give way to anger. This anger originates in the heart and becomes powerful there. This anger which lives in the bodies of men and is born in their minds, is described by the wise as Death. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-040 यदा संहरते कामान्कूर्मोऽङ्गानीव सर्वशः |
MN DUTT: 08-001-051 यदा संहरते कामान् कूर्मोऽङ्गानीव सर्वशः |
M. N. Dutt: When a person withdraws all his desires like a tortoise withdrawing all its limbs, then its soul, which is self-luminous, can see itself. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-041 किंचिदेव ममत्वेन यदा भवति कल्पितम् |
Corresponding verse not found in M. N. Dutt's version. |
Corresponding verse not found in M. N. Dutt's version. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-042 न बिभेति यदा चायं यदा चास्मान्न बिभ्यति |
MN DUTT: 08-001-052 न बिभेति यदा चायं यदा चास्मान्न बिभ्यति |
M. N. Dutt: When a person himself feels no fear and is feared by no one, when he has no desire and no hatred, he is then said to attain to the state of Brahima. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-043 उभे सत्यानृते त्यक्त्वा शोकानन्दौ भयाभये |
MN DUTT: 08-001-053 उभे सत्यानृते त्यक्त्वा शोकानन्दौ भयाभये |
M. N. Dutt: Renouncing both truth and falsehood, grief and joy, fear and courage, the agreeable and the disagreeable, you may acquire equanimity of soul. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-044 यदा न कुरुते धीरः सर्वभूतेषु पापकम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-054 यदा न कुरुते धीरः सर्वभूतेषु पापकम् |
M. N. Dutt: When a person does no wrong to any creature, in thought, word, or deed, he is then said to attain to a state of Brahma. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-045 या दुस्त्यजा दुर्मतिभिर्या न जीर्यति जीर्यतः |
MN DUTT: 08-001-055 या दुस्त्यजा दुर्मतिभिर्या न जीर्यति जीर्यतः |
M. N. Dutt: He alone enjoys true happiness who can renounce that thirst which cannot be cast off by the misguided, which does not decay with decrepitude, and which is considered as a fatal disease. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-046 अत्र पिङ्गलया गीता गाथाः श्रूयन्ति पार्थिव |
MN DUTT: 08-001-056 अत्र पिङ्गलया गीता गाथाः श्रूयन्ति पार्थिव |
M. N. Dutt: About it, O king, are heard the verses sung by Pingala regarding the way in which she had acquired eternal inerit even at a very unfavourable time. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-047 संकेते पिङ्गला वेश्या कान्तेनासीद्विनाकृता |
MN DUTT: 08-001-057 संकेते पिङ्गला वेश्या कान्तेनासीद् विनाकृता |
M. N. Dutt: Having gone to the appointed place, a fallen woman of the name of Pingala could not enjoy the company of her lover through an accident. At that time of great misery, she acquired equanimity of soul. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-048 पिङ्गलोवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-001-058 पिङ्गलोवाच उन्मत्ताहमनुन्मत्तं कान्तमन्ववसं चिरम् |
M. N. Dutt: Pingala said Alas, I have for many years lived ignorantly, by the side of tha dear Self in whom there is nothing but tranquility. Death has been at my door. Ere this, I did not, however, approach that Essence of Purity. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-049 एकस्थूणं नवद्वारमपिधास्याम्यगारकम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-059 एकस्थूणं नवद्वारमपिधास्याम्यगारकम् |
M. N. Dutt: I shall cover this house of one column and nine doors, i.e., body, (by means of true knowledge). What woman is there who considers that dear. Supreme Soul, even when He is so near, as really dear. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-050 अकामाः कामरूपेण धूर्ता नरकरूपिणः |
MN DUTT: 08-001-060 अकामां कामरूपेण धूर्ता नरकरूपिणः |
M. N. Dutt: I am now awake. I have been roused from the sleep of ignorance. I am no longer under the influence of desire. Human lovers, who are, in fact, so many embodiments of hell, shall no longer impose upon me by approaching me lustfully. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-051 अनर्थोऽपि भवत्यर्थो दैवात्पूर्वकृतेन वा |
MN DUTT: 08-001-061 अनर्थो हि भवेदर्थो दैवात् पूर्वकृतेन वा |
M. N. Dutt: Evil yields good through destiny or through pristine deeds. Roused from the sleep of ignorance, I have renounced all desire for worldly objects. I have gained a complete mastery over my senses. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-052 सुखं निराशः स्वपिति नैराश्यं परमं सुखम् |
MN DUTT: 08-001-062 सुखं निराशः स्वपिति नैराश्यं परमं सुखम् |
M. N. Dutt: One freed from desire and hope sleeps happily. Freedom from hope and desire is happiness. Having renounced desire and hope, Pingala sleeps happily. |
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BORI CE: 12-168-053 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-001-063 भीष्म उवाच एतैश्चान्यैश्च विप्रस्य हेतुमद्भिः प्रभाषितैः |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said Consoled with these and other words of the learned Brahmana, king Senajit enjoyed delight and became very happy. |
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