Mahābhārata

Vasishtha said: Thus, due to not being awakened and serving the unawakened, One goes through thousands of crores of creations ending in downfall. 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.

With the power of the Self, he goes through thousands of states of existence, ending in death, in the animal realm, in the human realm, and in the heavenly realm. 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.

Like the moon in the sheaths, he again and again dissolves into them thousands of times. Because of not being awakened, he is like this, indeed without intelligence. 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 fifteen arts are the womb, and that is said to be its abode. Know this always. The moon is the sixteenth part. 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 ignorant one is born again and again in the art, and again and again he is born in the abode of that. 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 sixteenth part is subtle, that is Soma. Let it be understood. But it is not used by the gods, it makes the gods use it. 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, O best of kings, having destroyed that, one is born. That is seen to be his nature. From the destruction of that, liberation is said. 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, the body, consisting of sixteen parts, is called the unmanifest. Considering it as "mine," one revolves within it. 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 twenty-fifth is the Self, due to the awakening of that very one, of the stainless, pure, by the practice of pure wind. 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, a man of impure conduct becomes pure in soul by the company of the pure. And a Buddha also becomes ignorant by the company of the ignorant. 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, O best of kings, even if one is not awakened, one should be known as being of the nature of Prakṛti. By serving the Prakṛti consisting of the three 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.

Karālajanaka said: This is said to be the relationship between the two, the letter and the unlettered, Or the relationship between a woman and a man. Please tell us 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.

Without a man, a woman does not bear a child here, and without a woman, a man does not attain a form. 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.

Because of the mutual connection and mutual dependence of the qualities, this form is manifested in all the wombs. 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.

For the purpose of pleasure, due to mutual dependence on each other's qualities, The form arises during the season. I will describe that as an example. 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.

We know, O Brāhmaṇa, that the bones, sinews, and marrow are from the father. 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.

We have heard that skin, flesh, and blood are also from the mother. Thus it is, O best of Brahmins, it is read in the Vedic scriptures. 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 authority of the Vedas and the authority of the scriptures that are read, the authority of the Vedas and the scriptures is the eternal authority. 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 are the Purusha and Prakriti always connected. I see, O Lord, therefore there is no Dharma of liberation. 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.

Or, if you have just now done something, please tell me the truth, for you are directly visible in every way. 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.

We also desire liberation, that which is free from disease, That which is without body, immortal, divine, beyond the senses, and without a master, 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.

Vasishtha said: What you have said, based on the Vedic scriptures, is indeed so. But you do not understand it as it 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.

For you hold the text of both the Vedas and the scriptures, But you are not a knower of the truth of the text, O Lord of men, 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 devoted to the retention of texts in the Veda and the scriptures, but does not know the truth of the meaning of the texts, his retention is in vain. 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 carries the burden of that text but does not know its meaning, He who knows the truth of the meaning of the text, his study of the text is not in vain. 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 when asked about the meaning of the text, he is able to speak in such a way that he may attain the truth and thus understand its meaning. 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 he who would explain the meaning of the text in assemblies, being of gross intellect, How will he, of dull knowledge, explain the text, having determined it? 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 the one who is full of holes will not give a true decision, and the one who is self-possessed will also become contemptuous. 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.

Therefore, O lord of kings, listen to how this is seen in accordance with the truth, in the great souls of Sāṃkhya and Yoga. 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.

M. N. Dutt: He is the heart of all creatures. He measures a digit of the thumb. That Infinite and Supreme Soul that Lord of all, thus devours the Universe. cars

M. N. Dutt: After this, what remains is the Undeteriorating and the Immutable One who is without shortcoming of any sort, who is the Creator of the Past, the Present, and the Future; and who is perfectly faultless.

M. N. Dutt: I have thus, O king, duly told you of Destruction. I shall now describe to you the subject of Adhyatma (Spiritual), Adhibhuta (Eternal) and Adhidaivata (Accidental).

M. N. Dutt: Brahmanas well read in the subjects of enquiry speak of the two feet as Spiritual, the act of walking as Elemental and Vishnu as Accidental.

M. N. Dutt: The lower duct is Spiritual; its function of throwing out the excreta is Elemental, and Mitra (Surya) is the Accidental.

M. N. Dutt: The organ of generation is called Spiritual. Its agreeable function is called Elemental and Prajapati is its Accidental.

M. N. Dutt: The hands are Spiritual; their function as represented by acts is Elemental; and Indra is the Accident of those limbs.

M. N. Dutt: The organs of speech are spiritual; the words uttered by them are Elemental; and Agni is their Accidental.

M. N. Dutt: The eye is Spiritual; vision or form is its Elemental, and Surya is the Accidental of that organ.

M. N. Dutt: The car is Spiritual; sound is Elemental; and the points of the compass are its Accidental.

M. N. Dutt: The tongue is Spiritual; taste is its Elemental; and Water is its Accidental.

M. N. Dutt: The sense of scent is Spiritual; odor is its elemental; and Earth is its Accidental.

M. N. Dutt: The skin is Spiritual; touch is its Elemental; and Wind is its Accidental.

M. N. Dutt: Mind has been called Spiritual that with which the Mind is employed is Elemental; and the moon is its Accidental.

M. N. Dutt: Ahankara is Spiritual; that which is to be vanity is its Elemental; and Rudra is its Accidental.

M. N. Dutt: Buddhi is Spiritual; that which is to be understood is its Elemental; and Soul is its Accidental.

M. N. Dutt: I have thus truly expounded to you, O king, with its details taken individually. The power of the supreme in the beginning, the middle, and the end, O you, who are fully conversant with the nature of the original principles.

M. N. Dutt: Nature, cheerfully and of her own accord, as if for sport, O king produces, by undergoing changes herself, thousands and thousands of combinations of her original qualities.

M. N. Dutt: As men can light thousands of lamps from but a single lamp, similarly Nature, by change, multiplies into thousands of existent objects the (three) qualities of Purusha.

M. N. Dutt: Patience, joy, prosperity, satisfaction, brightness of all faculties, happiness, purity, health, contentment, faith, liberality, mercy, forgiveness, firinness, benevolence, equanimity, truth, satisfaction of obligations, mildness, modesty, calmness, external purity, simplicity, observance of obligatory rites, dispassionateness, fearlessness of heart, disregard for good and evil as also for pristine deeds,-appropriation of objects only when acquired by gift, the absence of cupidity, regard for the interests of others, mercy for all crcatures, these have been said to be the characteristics of the quality of Goodness.

M. N. Dutt: The characteristics of the quality of Darkness are pride of personal beauty, assertion of supremacy, war, disinclination to give, absence of mercy, enjoyment and enduring of happiness and misery, pleasure in speaking ill of others, habit of quarrelling, pride, discourtesy, anxiety, hostilities, sorrow, appropriation of others' properties, shamelessness, crookedness, disunion, roughness, lust, anger, pride, assertion of superiority, malice and calumny. These originate from the quality of Darkness. I shall now tell you of qualities which originate Ignorance.

M. N. Dutt: They are stupefaction of judgement, obscuration of every faculty, darkness, blind darkness. Darkness means death, and blind darkness means anger.

M. N. Dutt: Besides these, the other marks of Ignorance are greediness for food, ceaseless appetite for both food and drink, taking pleasure in scents and dresses and sports and beds and seats and sleep during the day and calumny and all sorts of acts proceeding from carelessness, taking pleasure, in dancing and instrumental and vocal music, and aversion for every sort of religion. These, indeed, are the characteristics of Ignorance.

M. N. Dutt: These three, O foremost of men, are the qualities of Nature. These belong to all things of the universe.

M. N. Dutt: The uninanifest Purusha endued with the six Yoga qualities transforms himself by himself into hundreds and thousands and millions and millions of forms.

M. N. Dutt: Those that are conversant with the spiritual science say that to the quality of Sattva is assigned a high, to Rajas a middling, and to Tamas, a low place in the universe.

M. N. Dutt: By the help of unmixed virtue one acquires a high end. Through virtue mixed with sin one acquires the status of humanity. While through unmixed sin one is visited by a vile end.

M. N. Dutt: Listen now to me, king, as I speak to you of the intermixture of the three qualities of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas.

M. N. Dutt: Sometimes Rajas is seen mixed with Sattva Tamas also exists with Rajas. With Tamas may also be seen Sattva. Also Sattva and Rajas and Tamas may be seen existing together and in cqual parts. They then form the Nature.

M. N. Dutt: When the Purusha becomes endued with only Sattva, he aquires the region of the gods. Endued with both Sattva and Rajas, he is born as a man. Endued with Rajas and Tamas, he is born the intermediate order of Being. Endued with all three, viz., Sattva and Rajas and Tamas, he becomes a man.

M. N. Dutt: Those great persons who are above both virtue and sin, attain, it is said, to that place which is eternal, immutable, undecaying, and immortal.

M. N. Dutt: Men of knowledge go by very superior births and their place is faultless and undecaying, transcending the perception of the senses, free from ignorance above birth and death, and full of light that removes all sorts of darkness,

M. N. Dutt: You had asked me about the nature of the supreme living in the Unmanifest, Purusha. I shall tell you. He is said to live in His own nature without partaking of the nature of Prakriti.

M. N. Dutt: Nature, O king, is inanimate and unintelligent. When presided over by Purusha (Soul) then only can she create and destroy.

M. N. Dutt: Both Nature and Soul, O you of great intelligence, are without beginning and without end. Both of them are without end. Both of them are without form. Both of them are undeteriorating.

M. N. Dutt: Both of them, again, cannot be comprehended. How then, O foremost of Rishis, can it be said that one of them is inanimate and unintelligent? How, is the other said to be animate and intelligent? And why is the latter called Kshetrajna (Soul).

M. N. Dutt: You, O foremost of Brahmanas, are a master of the entire religion of Liberation. I wish to hear fully of the religion of Liberation.

M. N. Dutt: Do you describe to me then the existence and Oneness of Soul, of his separateness from Nature, of the gods which attach to the body, of the place to which embodied creatures go when they die, and that place to which they may ultimately, in course of time, be able to go.

M. N. Dutt: Tell me, also, of the Knowledge expounded in the Sankhya system, and of the Yoga system separately. You also speak of the predicaments of death, O best of men. All these subjects are well known to you even as an embolic myrobalan in your hand. Tell me, also, of the Knowledge expounded in the Sankhya system, and of the Yoga system separately. You also speak of the predicaments of death, O best of men. All these subjects are well known to you even as an embolic myrobalan in your hand.

M. N. Dutt: That which is without qualities, O son, can never be explained by assigning qualities to it. Listen, however, to me as I explain to you what is endued with qualities and what is devoid of them.

M. N. Dutt: Great Munis conversant with the truth about principles say that when Soul seizes qualities like a crystal catching the reflection of a red flower, he is said to be possessed of qualities; but when freed from qualities like the crystal freed from reflection, he is seen in his real nature, which is as above all qualities.

M. N. Dutt: Unmanifest Nature is by her nature endued with qualities. She cannot transcends them. Shorn of intelligence by nature she becomes attached to qualities.

M. N. Dutt: Unmanifest Nature cannot know anything, while Purusha, by his nature, is endued with knowledge.—There is nothing higher than myself, the Soul is always conscious of it.

M. N. Dutt: Therefore the unmanifest Nature, although by nature inanimate and unintelligent, still becomes animate and intelligent on account of her union with the Soul who is Eternal and Indestructible instead of remaining in her own nature owing to her destructibility.

M. N. Dutt: When Soul, through ignorance, repeatedly becomes associated with qualities, he fails to understand his own real nature and therefore he fails to acquire Liberation.

M. N. Dutt: On account of the Soul's Supremacy over the principles that originate from Nature he is said to partake of the nature of those principles. On account also of his agency in the matter of creation, he is said to possess the quality of creation. On account of his agency in the matter of Yoga, he is said to possess the quality of Yoga. For his Supremacy over those particular principles know by the name of Nature, he is said to possess the character of Nature.

M. N. Dutt: For his agency in the matter of creating the seeds, he is said to partake of the nature of those seeds. And because he causes the several principles or qualities to come into being, he is, therefore, said to be subject to decay and destruction.

M. N. Dutt: On account, again, of his being the witness of everything, and on account, also of there being nothing else than he, as also for his consciousness of oneness with Nature, Yatis endued with ascetic success, conversant with the spiritual science, and freed from fever of every sort, consider him as existing by himself without a second, immutable, unmanifest, unstable, and manifest.

M. N. Dutt: This is what we have heard. Those Sankhyas, however, that depend upon Knowledge only and the practice of mercy for all creatures, say that it is Nature which is Ore but souls are many.

M. N. Dutt: As a matter of fact, Soul is different from Nature which though unstable, still appears as stable. As a blade of reed is different from its outer cover, so is Soul different from Nature.

M. N. Dutt: Indeed, the worm that lies within the Udumvara should be known as different from the Udumvara, Though existing with the Udumvara, the worm is not to be considered as forming a part of the Udumvara.

M. N. Dutt: The fish is separate from the water in which it lives, and the water is separate from the fish that lives in it. Though the fish and water exist together, yet it is never drenched by water.

M. N. Dutt: The fire that lies in an earthen saucepan is separate from the earthen saucepan, and the saucepan is separate from the fire it contains. although the fire exists in and with the saucepan, yet it is not to be considered as constituting any part of it.

M. N. Dutt: The lotus-leaf that lies afloat on a piece of water is separate from the piece of water on which it floats. Because it exists with water it does not form a portion of the water.

M. N. Dutt: The eternal existence of those objects in and with those mentioned, is never correctly understood by ordinary mortals.

M. N. Dutt: They who see Nature and Soul in any other light are said to possess an incorrect vision. It is certain that they have repeatedly to sink into dreadful hell.

M. N. Dutt: I have thus told you the philosophy of the Sankhyas, that excellent science by which all things have been correctly determined. Ascertaining the nature of Soul and Nature in this way, the Sankhyas acquire Liberation.

M. N. Dutt: I have also told of the systems of those others who are conversant with the great principles of the universe. I shall now describe to you the science of the Yogins,

M. N. Dutt: Yajnavalkya said, I have already spoken to you of the science of the Sankhyas. Hear now as I truly describe the science of the Yogins as heard and seen my me, O best of kings. are

M. N. Dutt: There is no Knowledge like that of the Sankhyas. There is no power like that of Yoga. These two prescribe the same practices, and both are considered as capable of leading to Liberation.

M. N. Dutt: Those men who not blest with intelligence consider the Sankhya and the Yoga systems to be different from each other. We, however, O king, regard them as one and the same, according to the conclusion to which we have arrived.

M. N. Dutt: What the Yogins have in view is the very same which the Sankhyas also have in view. He who sees both the Sankhya and the Yoga systems to be one and the same is to be considered as truly conversant with the principles that ordain the universe.

Skin, flesh, blood, fat, bile, marrow, bone, and sinew, This is the sense-based, my dear, that you have said. 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 substance to substance, from sense to sense, from body to body, from seed to seed. 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.

How can there be qualities in this bodyless one, who is without senses, without seed, and without substance? Because of the absence of qualities in the great 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.

Qualities arise from qualities and dissolve back into them. Thus, qualities arise from nature and do not exist. 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.

Skin, flesh, blood, fat, bile, marrow, bone, and sinew, These eight are the natural elements, know them as such, along with semen. 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 male and the non-male are said to be the natural tri-gender. He who is neither male nor female is called a genderless person. 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 unmanifest Nature is perceived by the embodied souls through the manifest forms, just as the seasons are perceived through flowers and 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.

Thus, even in inference, a non-sign is perceived. O son, in the twenty-five signs, the self is indeterminate. 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 without beginning or end, infinite, all-seeing, free from disease. But only because of his pride, he is said to be without qualities among 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.

Qualities are in the one who has qualities, but where are the qualities of the one who is without qualities? Therefore, those who see qualities understand this. 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 when he considers all these qualities as natural, then he, who is endowed with qualities, sees the supreme. 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.

That which the Sāṃkhyas and Yogins declare to be superior to the intellect, The greatly wise one who is being understood, because of avoiding the ignorant. 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 call the unmanifest, the unevolved, the Lord who is endowed with qualities, And the Lord who is devoid of qualities, the eternal, the overlord. 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 wise know the twenty-five principles and the qualities of Prakṛti. Those who seek the supreme understand the Sāṃkhya and Yoga. 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.

When they are awakened, they are not afraid of the state of birth, and when they are awakened, they are awakened, and then they go together. 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.

This is the right and wrong view. O Lord of the senses, the enlightened and the unenlightened are separate. 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.

This is said by each other, the illustration of the perishable and the imperishable. They say that oneness is the imperishable, and diversity is said to be the perishable. 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.

When this is not properly practiced, it is limited to twenty-five. His vision is oneness, and non-vision is also diversity. 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.

This is the separate illustration of the truth and the untruth. The wise ones say that the twenty-fivefold creation is the truth. 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 twenty-five-fold is said to be the highest example of the absence of truth. The conduct of the group is the truth from the truth, the eternal. 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.