Mahābhārata

Karālajanaka said: O best of sages, you have said that this is duality and oneness. I see that the illustration of these two is ambiguous. 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 sinless one, I do not see the truth with my gross intellect, between the awakened and the awakened one, and the one who is about to awaken. 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 cause of the letter and the unlettered, which you have stated, has also disappeared, as it were, from me, O sinless one, because of my unstable intellect. 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.

I wish to hear about this, the view of diversity and unity, the Buddha, the unawakened, and the one who is truly awakening. 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 Blessed One, knowledge and ignorance, the imperishable and the perishable, Sāṃkhya and Yoga, in their entirety, separately and inseparably, 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: I shall tell you what you have asked me. O great king, listen to me separately about the duties of 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.

The duty of Yoga is meditation, which is the greatest strength of the Yogas. And that meditation also is of two kinds, say the people who know the Vedas. 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-pointedness of mind and prāṇāyāma, and Prāṇāyāma is with qualities, and also without qualities, and the mind. 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, one should not be engaged in the three times of urination, defecation, and eating. One should be engaged in the rest, being devoted to 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 sage, having withdrawn the senses from the objects of the senses, with the mind, from ten, twelve, or twenty-four, beyond 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.

And he should incite that self, which is the intellect, by means of injunctions, and that which is said by the wise to be the imperishable 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.

And we have heard that the Self is to be known by them always. For the mind that is not deficient, the decision is that it is not otherwise. 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.

Freed from all attachments, eating little, his senses controlled, He should keep his mind in the Self in the first and last watches of the night. 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 stabilized the group of senses, O Lord of Mithila, with the mind, Having made the mind firm with the intellect, like a rock, unmoving, 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 should be like a pillar, unshakable, like a mountain, unmoving. The wise, knowing the rules of conduct, then declare it to be proper. 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 does not hear, does not smell, does not taste, does not see, does not know touch, does not conceive with the mind, 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 does not think of anything, he does not understand anything, like a piece of wood. Then, when he has attained his nature, the wise say that he is united. 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 lamp burns in a windless place, so you are seen. It is without a handle, immovable, and does not move horizontally or vertically. 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.

Then one should perceive that by which, when seen, it is said: "The inner self, the heart-dweller, should be known by me and others as the knower." 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 smoke-free sun with its seven rays, like the lightning in the sky, the Self is seen 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.

That which is seen by the great-souled, patient, wise ones, The Brahmanas who are in the womb of Brahman, the unborn, immortal 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.

They say that it is smaller than the smallest and greater than the greatest. It abides in all beings, but is not seen. 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 Lord of the world is seen by the light of the mind, by the substance of the intellect. O father, he stands on the other side of the great darkness, beyond darkness. 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 called Tamonuda by those who know the truth and have mastered the Vedas, He is Vimal, Vitataska, Nirlinga, and called Alinga. 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 yoga of all yogas, I think, the characteristic of yoga. Thus seeing, they see the imperishable Self, 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.

I have told you the truth about this much of the Yoga view. I shall explain the knowledge of Sāṃkhya, the view of the enumeration of the ultimate. 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 proponents of the doctrine of Prakriti declare the unmanifest to be the supreme Prakriti. From that, O best of kings, the great one arose as the second. 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 the ego is the third from the great one. The Sankhya philosophers say that the five elements are from the ego. 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 eight are the primordial natures, and the modifications are sixteen, and the five particularities, and the five senses, 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 ones say that this much is the Sāṃkhya of the truths. Those who know the rules and regulations of Sāṃkhya, always engaged in the path of S 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.

Whatever is born there, it is dissolved there. The reverse (process) is dissolved and created by the inner 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.

They are born in the order of the qualities, and dissolve in the reverse order. The qualities are always in the qualities, like the waves of the ocean. 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 best of kings, this is the extent of creation and dissolution of Prakṛti. When it is one in dissolution and many when it creates. Thus, O lord of kings 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 presiding deity is unmanifest, and this is an example of it. The one and the many are the nature of Prakṛti. The one is in its dissolution, and the many 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 many-bodied one should perform the nature that is the essence of birth. And that field is presided over by the great-souled twenty-fifth 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.

The best of ascetics call him the "Lord" (Adhisthata), O King, We have heard that he is the Lord because he presides over the fields. 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 knows the field and the unmanifest is called the knower of the field. He who sleeps in the city of the unmanifest is called the Purusha. 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 field is one thing, the knower of the field is said to be another. The field is said to be the unmanifest, the knower is the twenty-fifth. 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.

Knowledge is one thing, the knowable is another. This is said to be so. Knowledge is said to be unmanifest, the knowable is the twenty-fifth. 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 is said to be the field, and so is sattva, and the lord. The non-lord, the non-truth, and the truth, that is the twenty- 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 entire view of the Sāṃkhya, the view of the enumeration. The Sāṃkhya teaches and explains prakriti. 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-four principles, along with Prakṛti, are the twenty-five principles according to the Sāṃkhyas. 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 said to be the one who is becoming awakened from the unawakened self. But when he awakens to the self, then he becomes the sole 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.

This is the true teaching of the right view, as you have spoken it. Those who know this attain equality. 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 right view is direct perception, the nature of the Prakriti, and the principles of the qualities. Thus, he who is devoid of qualities would be different. 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 there is no return for those who are present in this way. There is no destruction of each other because of the state of imperishability. 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.

Those of diverse views do not see them correctly. Those who are not subdued by the enemy again and again realize the unmanifest. 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.

Knowing all this, not all are enlightened, because of the non-enlightenment of all. They will become manifest, being under the control of the manifest. 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.

All is unmanifest, it is said; the twenty-five is not all. Those who know this have no fear. 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.