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Book 12 – Chapter 169
BORI CE: 12-169-001 युधिष्ठिर उवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-002-001 युधिष्ठिर उवाच अतिक्रामति कालेऽस्मिन् सर्वभूतक्षयावहे |
M. N. Dutt: Yudhishthira said Time, which destroys every created thing, is rolling on. Tell me, O grandfather, what is that good thing which one should seek. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-002 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-002-002 भीष्म उवाच अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम् |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said Regarding it, O king, an old discourse between father and son, O Yudhishthira, is mentioned. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-003 द्विजातेः कस्यचित्पार्थ स्वाध्यायनिरतस्य वै |
MN DUTT: 08-002-003 द्विजाते: कस्यचित् पार्थ स्वाध्यायनिरतस्य वै |
M. N. Dutt: A certain Brahmana, O Partha, who was given to the study of the Vedas, got a very intelligent son who was called Medhavin. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-004 सोऽब्रवीत्पितरं पुत्रः स्वाध्यायकरणे रतम् |
MN DUTT: 08-002-004 सोऽब्रवीत् पितरं पुत्रः स्वाध्यायकरणे रतम् |
M. N. Dutt: One day, the son, who was cognisant of the truths of the religion of liberation, and acquainted also with worldly affairs, addressed his father given to the study of the Vedas. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-005 धीरः किं स्वित्तात कुर्यात्प्रजान;न्क्षिप्रं ह्यायुर्भ्रश्यते मानवानाम् |
MN DUTT: 08-002-005 पुत्र उवाच धीरः किंस्वित्तात कुर्यात्प्रजानन् क्षिप्रं ह्यायुर्धश्यते मानवानाम् |
M. N. Dutt: The son said — Seeing that the lease of human life is passing away so very speedily, what should a wise man do? O father, tell me the duties which one should perform, without failing to mention the fruits. Having heard you, I wish to practise those duties. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-006 पितोवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-002-006 पितोवाच वेदानधीत्य ब्रह्मचर्येण पुत्र पुत्रानिच्छेत् पावनार्थं पितृणाम् |
M. N. Dutt: The sire said O son, following the life of celibacy, one should first read the Vedas. He should then wish for children for saving his departed ancestors. Kindling his fire next, he should try to celebrate the (prescribed) sacrifices according to due rites. At last, he should enter into woods for practising contemplation. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-007 पुत्र उवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-002-007 पुत्र उवाच एवमभ्याहते लोके समन्तात् परिवारिते |
M. N. Dutt: The son said-When the world is thus encircled on all sides and is thus attacked, and when such irresistible things of dreadful consequences fall upon it, how can you say these words so calmly. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-008 पितोवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-002-008 पितोवाच कथमभ्याहतो लोकः केन वा परिवारितः |
M. N. Dutt: The sire said How is the world attacked? What is that by which it is encircled? What again, are those irresistible things of dreadful consequences that fall upon it? Why do you terrify me thus? |
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BORI CE: 12-169-009 पुत्र उवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-002-009 पुत्र उवाच मृत्युनाभ्याहतो लोको जरया परिवारितः |
M. N. Dutt: The son said Death is what assails the world. Decrepitude brings it about. Those irresistible objects which come and go away are the nights. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 08-002-010 अमोघा रात्रयश्चापि नित्यमायान्ति यान्ति च |
M. N. Dutt: When I know that Death waits for none, how can I pass my days without covering myself with the raiment of knowledge. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-010 यदाहमेतज्जानामि न मृत्युस्तिष्ठतीति ह |
MN DUTT: 08-002-010 अमोघा रात्रयश्चापि नित्यमायान्ति यान्ति च MN DUTT: 08-002-011 सोऽहं कथं प्रतीक्षिष्ये जालेनापिहितश्चरन् |
M. N. Dutt: When I know that Death waits for none, how can I pass my days without covering myself with the raiment of knowledge. When passing away, each succeed-night lessens the lease of human life, the wise man should consider the day to be fruitless. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-011 रात्र्यां रात्र्यां व्यतीतायामायुरल्पतरं यदा |
MN DUTT: 08-002-012 गाधोदके मत्स्य इव सुखं विन्देत कस्तदा |
M. N. Dutt: What man is there who would, like a fish in a shallow water, feel happy? Death approaches a man before all his desires have been fulfilled. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-012 अनवाप्तेषु कामेषु मृत्युरभ्येति मानवम् |
MN DUTT: 08-002-013 अनवाप्तेषु कामेषु मृत्युरभ्येति मानवम् |
M. N. Dutt: Death takes away a person when he is engaged in plucking flowers and when his heart is otherwise busy, like a tigress carrying away a ram. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 08-002-014 वृकीवोरणमासाद्य मृत्युरादाय गच्छति |
M. N. Dutt: Do you, this very day, do what is for your well-being. Let not this death approach. Death drags its victims before their acts are done. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-013 अद्यैव कुरु यच्छ्रेयो मा त्वा कालोऽत्यगादयम् BORI CE: 12-169-014 श्वःकार्यमद्य कुर्वीत पूर्वाह्णे चापराह्णिकम् BORI CE: 12-169-015 युवैव धर्मशीलः स्यादनिमित्तं हि जीवितम् |
MN DUTT: 08-002-014 वृकीवोरणमासाद्य मृत्युरादाय गच्छति MN DUTT: 08-002-015 अकृतेष्वेव कार्येषु मृत्युबै सम्प्रकर्षति MN DUTT: 08-002-016 न हि प्रतीक्षते मृत्युः कृतमस्य न वा कृतम् |
M. N. Dutt: Do you, this very day, do what is for your well-being. Let not this death approach. Death drags its victims before their acts are done. What should be done tomorrow should be done to-day, and the deeds of the afternoon in the forenoon. Death does not wait to see whether the acts of its victim have all been done or not. Who knows that Death will not approach him even to-day? In prime of life one should begin the practice of virtue. Life is fickle. If virtue be practised, one will meet fame in this, and happiness in the other, world. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-016 मोहेन हि समाविष्टः पुत्रदारार्थमुद्यतः |
MN DUTT: 08-002-017 मोहेन हि समाविष्टः पुत्रदारार्थमुद्यतः |
M. N. Dutt: Possessed by ignorance, one is ready to work hard for sons and wives. Doing good or evil deeds, one brings them up and advances their interest. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-017 तं पुत्रपशुसंमत्तं व्यासक्तमनसं नरम् |
MN DUTT: 08-002-018 तं पुत्रपशुसम्पन्नं व्यासक्तमनसं नरम् |
M. N. Dutt: Like a tiger carrying away a sleeping deer, Death takes away the man addicted to the gratification of desire and the enjoyment of sons and animals. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-018 संचिन्वानकमेवैकं कामानामवितृप्तकम् |
MN DUTT: 08-002-019 संचिन्वानकमेवैनं कामानामवितृप्तकम् |
M. N. Dutt: Before he has been able to pluck the flowers which he seeks, before he has been satiated with the acquisition of the objects of desire, Death carries him away like a tiger carrying away its prey. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-019 इदं कृतमिदं कार्यमिदमन्यत्कृताकृतम् |
MN DUTT: 08-002-020 इदं कृतमिदं कार्यमिदमन्यत् कृताकृतम् |
M. N. Dutt: Death attacks a man while he enjoys the happiness arising from the gratification of desire, and while he still thinks,-this has been done; this is be done; this has been half-done. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-020 कृतानां फलमप्राप्तं कर्मणां फलसङ्गिनम् |
MN DUTT: 08-002-021 कृतानां फलमप्राप्तं कर्मणां कर्मसंज्ञितम् |
M. N. Dutt: Death carries away the man, whatever he is called according to his calling, attached to his field, his shop, or his home, before he has acquired the fruit of his acts. |
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Corresponding verse not found in BORI CE |
MN DUTT: 08-002-022 दुर्बलं बलवन्तं च शूरं भीरूं जडं कविम् |
M. N. Dutt: Death carries away the weak, the strong, the brave, the timid, the idiotic, and the learned, before any of these acquires the fruits of his acts. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-021 मृत्युर्जरा च व्याधिश्च दुःखं चानेककारणम् |
MN DUTT: 08-002-023 मृत्युर्जरा च व्याधिश्च दुःखं चानेककारणम् |
M. N. Dutt: When death, decrepitude, disease, and grief originating from various causes, are all living in your body, how is it that you live as if you are perfectly hale. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-022 जातमेवान्तकोऽन्ताय जरा चान्वेति देहिनम् |
MN DUTT: 08-002-024 जातमेवान्तकोऽन्ताय जरा चान्वेति देहिनम् |
M. N. Dutt: As soon as an embodied creature is born, Decrepitude and Death follow him to bring about his destruction. All things, mobile and immobile, are affected by these two. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-023 मृत्योर्वा गृहमेवैतद्या ग्रामे वसतो रतिः |
MN DUTT: 08-002-025 मृत्योर्वा मुखमेतद् वै या ग्रामे वसतो रतिः |
M. N. Dutt: The attachment which one feels for living in villages and towns is considered as the very mouth of Death. The forest, on the other hand, is considered as the fold within which the senses may be penned up. This is the injunction of the Shrutis. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-024 निबन्धनी रज्जुरेषा या ग्रामे वसतो रतिः |
MN DUTT: 08-002-026 निबन्धनी रज्जुरेषा या ग्रामे वसतो रतिः |
M. N. Dutt: The attachment a person feels for living in a village or town is like a cord which fetters him strongly. Those that are good break that cord and acquire liberation, while they the wicked cannot break them. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-025 न हिंसयति यः प्राणान्मनोवाक्कायहेतुभिः |
MN DUTT: 08-002-027 न हिंसयति यो जन्तून् मनोवाक्कायहेतुभिः |
M. N. Dutt: He who never injures living creatures by thought, word, or deed, is never injured by such agencies as wild beasts and lawless men always destroying life and property. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-026 न मृत्युसेनामायान्तीं जातु कश्चित्प्रबाधते |
MN DUTT: 08-002-028 न मृत्युसेनामायान्तीं जातु कश्चित् प्रबाधते |
M. N. Dutt: Nothing can resist the emissaries of Death when they advance except Truth which devours Untruth. Immortality, lives in Truth. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-027 तस्मात्सत्यव्रताचारः सत्ययोगपरायणः |
MN DUTT: 08-002-029 तस्मात् सत्यव्रताचारः सत्ययोगपरायणः |
M. N. Dutt: For these reasons, one should practise the vow of Truth; one should devote himself too Truth; one should accept Truth for one's Veda; and controlling is senses, one should defcat the Death by Truth. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-028 अमृतं चैव मृत्युश्च द्वयं देहे प्रतिष्ठितम् |
MN DUTT: 08-002-030 अमृतं चैव मृत्युश्च द्वयं देहे प्रतिष्ठितम् |
M. N. Dutt: Both immortality and Death are in the body. One meets with Death through ignorance and loss of judgement; while Immortality is gained by Truth. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-029 सोऽहं ह्यहिंस्रः सत्यार्थी कामक्रोधबहिष्कृतः |
MN DUTT: 08-002-031 सोऽहं ह्यहिस्रः सत्यार्थी कामक्रोधबहिष्कृतः |
M. N. Dutt: I shall, therefore, injure no one and try to acquire Truth, and transgressing the control of desire and anger, consider pleasure and pain impartially, and gaining tranquility, avoid Death like an immortal. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-030 शान्तियज्ञरतो दान्तो ब्रह्मयज्ञे स्थितो मुनिः |
MN DUTT: 08-002-032 शान्तियज्ञरतो दान्तो ब्रह्मयज्ञे स्थितो मुनिः |
M. N. Dutt: When with the coming of the season the Sun will march towards the north, I shall, controlling my senses, engage in the practice of self-denial in the reflection of Vedantic truths, in the recitation of the mystic syllable OM, and in the contemplation of the Supreme Self. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-031 पशुयज्ञैः कथं हिंस्रैर्मादृशो यष्टुमर्हति |
MN DUTT: 08-002-033 पशुयज्ञैः कथं हिंस्रैर्मादृशो यष्टुमर्हति |
M. N. Dutt: How can one like me adore his Maker with animal-sacrifices involving cruelty, or sacrifices of the body such as Pishachas only can perform and such as yield transitory fruits. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-032 यस्य वाङ्मनसी स्यातां सम्यक्प्रणिहिते सदा |
MN DUTT: 08-002-034 यस्य वाङ्मनसी स्यातां सम्यक् प्रणिहिते सदा |
M. N. Dutt: That person person whose whose words, thoughts penances, renunciation, and Yoga meditation, all depend on Brahma, acquires the highest good. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-033 नास्ति विद्यासमं चक्षुर्नास्ति विद्यासमं बलम् |
MN DUTT: 08-002-035 नास्ति विद्यासमं चक्षुर्नास्ति सत्यसमं तपः |
M. N. Dutt: There is no eye which is equal to that of knowledge. There is no penance like Truth. There is no sorrow like Attachment. There is no happiness like Renunciation. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-034 आत्मन्येवात्मना जात आत्मनिष्ठोऽप्रजोऽपि वा |
MN DUTT: 08-002-036 आत्मन्येवात्मना जात आत्मनिष्ठोऽप्रजोऽपि वा |
M. N. Dutt: I have sprung from Brahma through Brahma. I shall devote myself to Brahma, though I have no child. I shall return to Brahma. I do not require a son for rescuing me. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-035 नैतादृशं ब्राह्मणस्यास्ति वित्तं; यथैकता समता सत्यता च |
MN DUTT: 08-002-037 नैतादृशं ब्राह्मणस्यास्ति वित्तं यथैकता समता सत्यता च |
M. N. Dutt: A Brahmana can have no wealth which is the state of being alone, the state by virtue of which he can look upon everything impartially, the practice of truthfulness, good conduct, patience, abstention from injury, simplicity and avoidance of all rites and sacrifices, |
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BORI CE: 12-169-036 किं ते धनैर्बान्धवैर्वापि किं ते; किं ते दारैर्ब्राह्मण यो मरिष्यसि |
MN DUTT: 08-002-038 किं ते धनैर्बान्धवैर्वापि किं ते किं ते दारैर्ब्राह्मण यो मरिष्यसि |
M. N. Dutt: Why do you, O Brahmana, care for wealth or kinsmen and relatives and wives, when you shall have to die? Seek yourself which is concealed in a cave. Where are your grandfathers and where is your sire. |
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BORI CE: 12-169-037 भीष्म उवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-002-039 भीष्म उवाच पुत्रस्यैतद् वचः श्रुत्वा यथाकार्षीत् पिता नृप |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said Do you also, O king, act yourself like the father (in this story), behaved himself devoted to the religion of Truth, after having heard the words of his son. |
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