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Book 12 – Chapter 205
BORI CE: 12-205-001 गुरुरुवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-039-001 भीष्म उवाच प्रवृत्तिलक्षणो धर्मो यथा समुपलभ्यते |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said more Persons who perform acts consider the performance of acts highly. Likewise, those who are devoted to Knowledge do not regard anything other than Knowledge. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-002 दुर्लभा वेदविद्वांसो वेदोक्तेषु व्यवस्थिताः |
MN DUTT: 08-039-002 दुर्लभा वेदविद्वांसो वेदोक्तेषु व्यवस्थिताः |
M. N. Dutt: Rare are persons fully conversant with the Vedas and depending upon the injunctions contained therein. The intelligent however consider the abstention from acts as the better of the two, viz., heaven and liberation. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-003 सद्भिराचरितत्वात्तु वृत्तमेतदगर्हितम् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-003 सद्भिराचरितत्वात्तु वृत्तमेतदगर्हितम् |
M. N. Dutt: Abstention of acts is observed by highly wise That conduct, therefore, is praiseworthy. The intelligence which advocates abstention from acts, is that by which one attains to liberation. men. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-004 शरीरवानुपादत्ते मोहात्सर्वपरिग्रहान् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-004 शरीरवानुपादत्ते मोहात् सर्वान् परिग्रहान् |
M. N. Dutt: Endued with body, a person, through folly, and endued with anger and cupidity and all the propensities born of Darkness and Ignorance, cherishes attachment for all earthly objects. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-005 नाशुद्धमाचरेत्तस्मादभीप्सन्देहयापनम् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-005 नाशुद्धमाचरेत् तस्मादभीप्सन् देहयापनम् |
M. N. Dutt: One, therefore, who wishes to destroy his connection with the body, should never perforin any impure act. On the other hand, one should create by his acts a path for attaining to Liberation, without wishing for regions of happiness. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-006 लोहयुक्तं यथा हेम विपक्वं न विराजते |
MN DUTT: 08-039-006 लोहयुक्तं यथा हेम विपक्वं न विराजते |
M. N. Dutt: As gold, when united with iron, losses its purity and cannot shine, so Knowledge, when existing with attachment to earthly objects and such other shortcomings, fails to display its splendour. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-007 यश्चाधर्मं चरेन्मोहात्कामलोभावनु प्लवन् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-007 यश्चाधर्मं चरेल्लोभात् कामक्रोधावनुप्लवन् |
M. N. Dutt: He who, influenced by cupidity, desire and anger, practises unrighteousness, transgressing the path of righteousness, is completely destroyed. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-008 शब्दादीन्विषयांस्तस्मादसंरागादनुप्लवेत् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-008 शब्दादीन् विषयांस्तस्मान्न संरागादयं व्रजेत् |
M. N. Dutt: One who is desirous of benefiting oneself should never seek, with too much attachment, earthly possessions representing by the objects of the senses. If one does it, anger and joy and sorrow arise from one another. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-009 पञ्चभूतात्मके देहे सत्त्वराजसतामसे |
MN DUTT: 08-039-009 पञ्चभूतात्मके देहे सत्त्वे राजसतामसे |
M. N. Dutt: When every one's body is made up of the five original elements as also of the three qualities of Goodness. Darkness, and Ignorance, whom shall one worship and whom shall one censure with what words? |
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BORI CE: 12-205-010 स्पर्शरूपरसाद्येषु सङ्गं गच्छन्ति बालिशाः |
MN DUTT: 08-039-010 स्पर्शरूपरसाद्येषु सङ्गं गच्छन्ति बालिशाः |
M. N. Dutt: Only the fools become attached to the objects of the senses. On account of folly they do not know that their bodies are only modifications of earth. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-011 मृन्मयं शरणं यद्वन्मृदैव परिलिप्यते |
MN DUTT: 08-039-011 मृन्मयं शरणं यद्वन्मृदैव परिलिप्यते |
M. N. Dutt: As a house made of earth is covered over with earth, so this body which is made of earth is saved from destruction by food which is only a change of earth. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-012 मधु तैलं पयः सर्पिर्मांसानि लवणं गुडः |
MN DUTT: 08-039-012 मधु तैलं पयः सर्पिर्मांसानि लवणं गुडः |
M. N. Dutt: Honey, oil, milk, butter, meat, salt, treacle and grain of all kinds and fruit and roots are all modifications of earth and water. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-013 यद्वत्कान्तारमातिष्ठन्नौत्सुक्यं समनुव्रजेत् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-013 यद्वत् कान्तारमातिष्ठन्नौत्सुक्यं समनुव्रजेत् |
M. N. Dutt: Giving up all desire (for rich food) herinits living in the forest take simple and unsavoury food, for only keeping up the body. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-014 तद्वत्संसारकान्तारमातिष्ठञ्श्रमतत्परः |
MN DUTT: 08-039-014 तद्वत् ससारकान्तारमातिष्ठश्रमतत्परः |
M. N. Dutt: Likewise, a person who lives in the forest of the world, should be ready for labour and should take food for passing life, like a patient taking medicine. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-015 सत्यशौचार्जवत्यागैर्यशसा विक्रमेण च BORI CE: 12-205-016 भावान्सर्वान्यथावृत्तान्संवसेत यथाक्रमम् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-015 सत्यशौचार्जवत्यागैर्वर्चसा विक्रमेण च |
M. N. Dutt: Examining all earthly things that meet him, by the help of truth, purity, candour, a spirit of। renunciation, enlightenment, courage, forgiveness, fortitude, intelligence, reflection, and austerities, and desirous of securing tranquillity, a person of great soul should restrain his senses. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-017 सत्त्वेन रजसा चैव तमसा चैव मोहिताः |
MN DUTT: 08-039-016 सत्त्वेन रजसा चैव तमसा चैव मोहिताः |
M. N. Dutt: All creatures, stupefied by Ignorance by the qualities of Goodness, Darkness, and Ignorance and continually revolving like a wheel. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-018 तस्मात्सम्यक्परीक्षेत दोषानज्ञानसंभवान् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-017 तस्मात् सम्यक् परीक्षेत दोषानज्ञानसम्भवान् |
M. N. Dutt: All faults, begotten of Ignorance should be closely examined and the idea of Self, which originates from Ignorance, and creates misery, should be avoided. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-019 महाभूतानीन्द्रियाणि गुणाः सत्त्वं रजस्तमः |
MN DUTT: 08-039-018 महाभूतानीन्द्रियाणि गुणाः सत्त्वं रजस्तमः |
M. N. Dutt: The five elements, the senses, the qualities of Goodness, Darkness and Ignorance, the three worlds with the Supreme Being himself, and acts, all rest on Self-consciousness. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-020 यथेह नियतं कालो दर्शयत्यार्तवान्गुणान् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-019 यथेह नियतः कालो दर्शयत्यार्तवान् गुणान् |
M. N. Dutt: As Time, under its own laws, always creates the seasons one after another, so one should know that Consciousness in all creatures is the mover of acts. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-021 संमोहकं तमो विद्यात्कृष्णमज्ञानसंभवम् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-020 सम्मोहकं तमो विद्यात् कृष्णमज्ञानसम्भवम् |
M. N. Dutt: Ignorance produces delusions. It is like Darkness and is born of Ignorance. All the joys and sorrows belong to the three qualities of Goodness, Darkness, and Ignorance. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-022 प्रमोहो हर्षजः प्रीतिरसंदेहो धृतिः स्मृतिः |
MN DUTT: 08-039-021 सत्त्वस्य रजसश्चैव तमसश्च निबोध तान् |
M. N. Dutt: Listen now to those consequences that spring from the qualities of Goodness, Darkness and Ignorance. Contentment, the satisfaction that arises from joy, certainty, intelligence, and memory,-these are the results of the quality of Goodness. I shall now describe the consequences of Darkness and Ignorance. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-023 कामक्रोधौ प्रमादश्च लोभमोहौ भयं क्लमः |
MN DUTT: 08-039-022 कामक्रोधौ प्रमादश्च लोभमोहौ भयं क्लमः |
M. N. Dutt: Desire, anger, error, cupidity stupefaction, fear, and fatigue, belong to the quality of Darkness. Cheerlessness, grief discontent, vanity, pride, and wickedness, all belong to Ignorance. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-024 दोषाणामेवमादीनां परीक्ष्य गुरुलाघवम् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-023 दोषाणामेवमादीनां परोक्ष्य गुरुलाघवम् |
M. N. Dutt: Examining the weight or lightness of these and other evils that exist in the Soul, one should reflect upon each of them one after another. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-025 शिष्य उवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-039-024 युधिष्ठिर उवाच के दोषा मनसा त्यक्ताः के बुद्ध्या शिथिलीकृताः |
M. N. Dutt: Yudhishthira said, What eviis are shunned by persons sceking Liberation? What are those that are weakened by them? What are the evils that come again and again? What, again, are regarded as week, through stupefaction. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-026 केषां बलाबलं बुद्ध्या हेतुभिर्विमृशेद्बुधः |
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: 08-039-025 केषां बलाबलं बुद्ध्या हेतुभिर्विमशेद् बुधः |
M. N. Dutt: What, indeed, are those evils upon whose gravity and weakness a wise man should reflect with the help of intelligence and of reason? I have doubts upon these subjects. Describe these to me, O grandfather. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-027 गुरुरुवाच |
MN DUTT: 08-039-026 भीष्म उवाच दोषैर्मूलादवच्छिन्नविशुद्धात्मा विमुच्यते |
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said-‘By rooting out all evils, a person of pure Soul succeeds in obtaining Liberation. As an axe made of steel cuts a steel chain, similarly, a person of cleansed Soul, destroying all the evils that originate from Darkness and that are born with the Soul, succeeds in cutting off his connection with the body. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-028 राजसं तामसं चैव शुद्धात्माकर्मसंभवम् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-027 राजसं तामसं चैव शुद्धात्मकमकल्मषम् |
M. N. Dutt: The qualities having their origin in Darkness, those that originate from Ignorance, and those stainless ones characterised by purity, form as it were the seed from which all embodied creatures have sprung. Amongst these, the quality of Goodness alone is the cause through which persons of pure souls succeed in attaining to Liberation. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-029 तस्मादात्मवता वर्ज्यं रजश्च तम एव च |
MN DUTT: 08-039-028 तस्मादात्मवता वर्षं रजश्च तम एव च |
M. N. Dutt: A person of pure soul, therefore, should cast off all the qualities begotten of Darkness and Ignorance. Then again when the quality of Goodness becomes frced from those of Darkness and Ignorance it shines the more. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-030 अथ वा मन्त्रवद्ब्रूयुर्मांसादानां यजुष्कृतम् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-029 अथवा मन्त्रवढ्युरात्मादानाय दुष्कृतम् |
M. N. Dutt: Some say that sacrifices and other acts performed with the help of Mantras, and which bring about the purification of the Soul, are evil or cruel acts. On the other hand, those acts are the chief instruments for dissociating the Soul from all worldly attachments, and for the observance of the religion of peace. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-031 रजसा धर्मयुक्तानि कार्याण्यपि समाप्नुयात् |
MN DUTT: 08-039-030 रजसाधर्मयुक्तानि कार्याण्यपि समाप्नुते |
M. N. Dutt: Through the influence of the qualities born of Darkness, all impious acts are perpetrated and all earthly acts as well as such acts as originate from desire are performed. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-032 तमसा लोभयुक्तानि क्रोधजानि च सेवते |
MN DUTT: 08-039-031 तमसा लोभयुक्तानि क्रोधजानि च सेवते |
M. N. Dutt: Through qualities born of Ignorance, one does all acts fraught with cupidity and springing from anger. In consequence of the attribute of Ignorance, one feels sleep and procrastination and becomes addicted to all acts of crucily and carnality. |
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BORI CE: 12-205-033 सत्त्वस्थः सात्त्विकान्भावाञ्शुद्धान्पश्यति संश्रितः |
MN DUTT: 08-039-032 सत्त्वस्थः सात्त्विकान् भावाशुद्धान् पश्यति संश्रितः |
M. N. Dutt: That person, however, who endued with faith and scriptural knowledge, follows the quality of Goodness, attends only to all good things and becomes endued with beauty and a soul free froin every corruption. |
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