Mahābhārata

Vasishtha said: Thus, due to not being awakened, one follows the unawakened. One attains thousands of bodies from the body. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

In thousands of animal births, or even in the gods, One is reborn due to conjunction, with the qualities, through the exhaustion of the qualities. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

From the human state one goes to heaven, from heaven to the human state, from the human state to hell, and from hell to the endless state. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Just as a silkworm wraps itself in a cocoon, so this one without qualities is always wrapped in qualities. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He becomes subject to duality, though he is beyond duality, in these and other wombs. In diseases of the head, eyes, toothache, and throat. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

In dropsy, piles, fever, goitre, dysentery, leprosy, consumption, burning sensation, epilepsy and insanity, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

And all the other pairs of opposites that arise in the bodies of ordinary people, he also experiences. He experiences them because of his pride, and in the same way he also experiences good deeds ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

One-clothed, badly-clothed, always lying down, lying like a frog, and sitting in the hero's posture, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Wearing rags, sleeping in the sky, and dwelling in a place, A brick bed, and a bed of thorns, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

One who sleeps on a bed of ashes, on a bed of earth, on a bed of clay, on a bed of leaves, on a bed of grass, on a bed of wood, on ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He is fruitless, though he is full of desire for fruits, in the various kinds of beds. The nakedness of the Muñja-girdle, the silken and black antelope skins, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Wearing a Shaṇīvāla garment, adorned with a tiger skin, Wearing a lion skin garment, and also wearing a silk garment, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He wears the clothes of a worm, and also the clothes of a deer, and many other kinds of clothes, the unwise one. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Various kinds of food, various kinds of jewels, Wearing one garment, eating at one time, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The fourth and eighth time, and also the sixth time, Eating every six days, and also eating every eight days, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

One who eats for seven nights, one who eats for ten days, one who eats for twelve days, One who fasts for a month, one who eats roots, one who eats fruits ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Subsisting on air, eating mud, cowdung, Eating cow's urine, eating vegetables and flowers, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Eating algae, living on water, living on fallen leaves, eating scattered fruits, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He undergoes various austerities in the hope of happiness, and performs the Cāndrāyaṇa rites and various other observances. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He follows the path of the four stages of life, and also the stages of life. He sits with the heretics, and also with the caves and mountains. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The solitary shade of rocks, and the waterfalls, The various kinds of muttering prayers, and the various kinds of vows, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The various rules, the various austerities, The various kinds of sacrifices, and the various injunctions, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The path of merchants, the path of Brahmins and Kshatriyas, the path of Vaishyas and Shudras, And the various kinds of gifts to the poor, the blind ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He is attached to the three kinds of qualities, because of non-understanding, Sattva, Rajas and Tamas, Dharma, Artha and Kama, The Self, by nature, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The utterance of svadhā, vaṣaṭ, svāhā, and namaskāra, Sacrificing, teaching, giving, and receiving gifts, Sacrificing, studying ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

In the dispute about birth and death, and also in the cutting up (of the body), All this is said to be the path of action, consisting of good and bad. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The Goddess Prakriti brings about the great dissolution. At the end of the day, having approached these qualities, He remains alone. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Just as the sun controls the net of rays, so does he control the time. Thus he repeatedly imagines everything for the sake of play. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

These various forms and qualities of the Self, dear to the heart, Thus, undergoing transformation, the activities of creation and dissolution, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He is red in the path of action and action, beyond the three qualities, beyond the three qualities. He is endowed with the path of action and action, and so he thinks. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Thus these pairs of opposites are always present to me. These are born of me alone, and they afflict me. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

O king, all these should be crossed over. This one, due to lack of intelligence, thinks so, and also good deeds. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

These must be enjoyed by me, when I go to the world of the gods. And here I shall enjoy the rise of good and bad fruits. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

And I shall do only what is pleasant, and having done it once, I shall be happy. And as long as I live, I shall be happy, and in life after life. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

And by my actions here, I shall have endless suffering in the future. For great suffering is the human state, and also the sinking into hell. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

From hell I shall again return to the human state, From the human state to the divine state, from the divine state to the human state again, From the human state to hell, passing ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He who thus knows the Self as eternal, surrounded by the qualities of the Self, is reborn among gods, humans, and in hell. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Covered by the sense of "mine," he always revolves there. In the bodies that end in death, in thousands of crores of creations, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He who performs such actions, having good and bad results, He alone experiences the fruits, embodied, in the three worlds. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Nature performs actions having good and bad results. And Nature enjoys them in the three worlds, moving about as it pleases. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

In the animal world, in the human world, and in the celestial world, One should know these three places to be ordinary. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

They say that the unmanifest nature is without characteristics, but we infer it through characteristics. In the same way, one sees the characteristic of masculinity through inference. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Having attained another liṅga, the natural liṅga without a wound, Having taken possession of the doors of wounds, he thinks of actions as being in the self. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

But the five organs of action, the organs of speech, etc., and the five organs of knowledge, the organs of hearing, etc., are active only in the qualities, along with the qualities ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

One who is without senses should think, “I am without a wound, I am without a wound.” One who is without a sign should think, “I am the sign of the self, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Non-existence is the Self, existence is the Self, non-truth is the Self, truth is the Self, Immortality is the Self, death is the Self, the un ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He who is not a field makes the self a field, he who is not a creation makes the self a creation, He who is not a penance makes the self a penance, he who is ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

He who is fearless makes himself fearful; He who is imperishable makes himself perishable; He who is not intelligent thinks himself intelligent. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.