pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: कर्मणा मनसा वाचा ये न हिंसन्ति किंचन॥ येन सज्जन्ति कस्मिंश्चित् ते न बद्ध्यन्ति कर्मभिः।
English: They who never injure others in thoughts, word, or deed, and who never attach themselves to anything, can never be fettered by deeds.
Sanskrit: प्राणातिपाताद् विरताः शीलवन्तो दयान्विताः॥ तुल्यद्वेष्यप्रिया दान्ता मुच्यन्ते कर्मबन्धनैः।
English: They who abstain from kiiling any creature, who are gifted with righteous conduct, who have mercy, who treat friends and foes equally, and who are self-controlled, can never be fettered by acts.
Sanskrit: सर्वभूतदयावन्तो विश्वास्याः सर्वजन्तुषु॥ त्यक्तहिंसासमाचारास्ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः।
English: Those men who are gifted with mercy towards all beings, who succeed in creating the confidence of all living creatures, and who men have shaken off malice in their conduct, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: परस्वे निर्ममा नित्यं परदारविवर्जकाः॥ धर्मलब्धान्नभोक्तारस्ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः।
English: Those men who have no no desire to appropriate others' properties, who never associate with the spouses of others, and who enjoy only such wealth as has been acquired by fair means, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: भातृवत् स्वसृवच्चैव नित्यं दुहितृवच्च ये॥ परदारेषु वर्तन्ते ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः।
English: Those men who treat the wives of other people as their own mothers and sisters and daughters, succeed in attaining to Heaven.
Sanskrit: स्तैन्यान्निवृत्ताः सततं संतुष्टाः स्वधनेन च॥ स्वभाग्यान्युपजीवन्ति ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः।
English: Those who abstain from misappropriating others' things, who are perfectly contented with what they themselves possess, and who live depending upon their own destiny, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: स्वदारनिरता ये च ऋतुकालाभिगामिनः॥ अग्राम्यसुखभोगाश्च ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः।
English: Those men who never know other peoples' wives, who are masters of their senses, and who are given to righteous conduct, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: परदारेषु ये नित्यं चरित्रावृतलोचनाः॥ जितेन्द्रियाः शीलपरास्ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः।
English: This is the path, created by the gods, that the pious should follow. This is the path, freed from passion and aversion, sanctioned for the pious to follow.
Sanskrit: एष देवकृतो मार्गः सेवितव्यः सदा नरैः॥ अकघायकृतश्चैव मार्ग: सेव्यः सदा वुधैः।
English: Those men who are devoted to their own wives and who seek them in only their seasons, and who do not indulge in sexual pleasure, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: दानधर्मतपोयुक्तः शीलशौचदयात्मकः॥ वृत्त्यर्थं धर्महेतोर्वा सेवितव्यः सदा नरैः। स्वर्गवासमभीप्सद्भिर्न सेव्यस्त्वत उत्तरः॥
English: For the sake of multiplying their merit or for acquiring their means of livelihood, the wise should follow charity, penances and purity of both body and mind. Those who wish to ascend to Heaven, should follow in this tract and not any other.
Sanskrit: उमोवाच वाचा तु बद्ध्यते येन मुच्यतेऽप्यथवा पुनः। तानि कर्माणि मे देव वद भूतपतेऽनघ॥
English: Uma said Tell me, O illustrious-god, O sinless lord of all creatures, what are those words by which one becomes fettered and what are those words by speaking which one may be freed from fetters.
Sanskrit: श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच आत्महेतोः परार्थं वा नर्महास्याश्रयात् तथा। ये मृषा न वदन्तीह ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: Maheshvara said Those men who never tell falschood for either themselves or for others, or in jest or for exciting laughter, succeed in ascending Heaven.
Sanskrit: वृत्त्यर्थं धर्महेतोर्वा कामकारात् तथैव च। अनृतं ये न भाषन्ते ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: They who never tell lies for acquiring their livelihood or for acquiring merit or through mere caprice, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: श्लक्ष्णां वाणी निराबाधां मधुरां पापवर्जिताम्। स्वागतेनाभिभाषन्ते ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: They who utter words which are smooth and sweet and faultless, and who with sincerity welcome all whom they meet with, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: परुषं ये न भाषन्ते कटुकं निष्ठुरं तथा। अपैशुन्यरताः सन्तस्ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: They who never utter words which are harsh, bitter and cruel, and who are free from deceitfulness and evil of every kind, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: पिशुनां न प्रभाषन्ते मित्रभेदकरी गिरम्। ऋतं मैत्रं तु भाषन्ते ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: Those men who never utter deceitful words which create disunion between friends and who always speak what is true and what promotes good feelings, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: ये वर्जयन्ति पुरुषं परद्रोहं च मानवाः। सर्वभूतसमा दान्तास्ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: Those men who avoid harsh words and abstains from quarrels with others, who are equal in their conduct to all creatures, and who have governed their souls, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: शठप्रलापाद् विरता विरुद्धपरिवर्जकाः। सौम्यप्रलापिनो नित्यं ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: They who abstain from evil speech or sinful conversation, who avoid disagreeable speeches, and who utter only auspicious and agreeable words, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: न कोपाद् व्याहरन्ते ये वाचं हृदयदारणीम्। सान्त्वं वदन्ति क्रुद्धाऽपि ते नरा: स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: They who never utter, under anger, such words as cut others to the quick, and who, even when under the influence of anger, speak words what are peaceful and agreeable, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: एष वाणीकृतो देवि धर्मः सेव्यः सदा नरैः। शुभः सत्यगुणो नित्यं वर्जनीयो मृषा बुधैः॥
English: This religion, O goddess of speech, should always be followed by men. It is auspicious and characterised by Truth. The wise should always avoid untruth.
Sanskrit: उमोवाच मनसा बद्ध्यते येन कर्मणा पुरुषः सदा। तन्मे ब्रूहि महाभाग देवदेव पिनाकधृत्॥
English: Uma said Tell me, O god of gods, O holder of Pinaka, O you who are highly blessed, what those thoughts are by which a person may be fettered.
Sanskrit: श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच मानसेनेह धर्मेण संयुक्ताः पुरुषाः सदा। स्वर्गं गच्छन्ति कल्याणि तन्मे कीर्तयतः शृणु॥
English: Maheshvara said Gifted with merit that originates from mental acts, O goddess, one ascends to Heaven. Listen to me, O auspicious one, as I recite to you what those acts are.
Sanskrit: दुष्प्रणीतेन मनसा दुष्प्रणीततरा कृतिः। मनो बद्ध्यति येनेह शृणु वाक्यं शुभानने।॥
English: Listen to me, Oyou of sweet face, how also a mind of illregulated features, becomes fettered by illregulated or evil thoughts.
Sanskrit: अरण्ये विजने न्यस्तं परस्वं दृश्यते यदा। मनसापि न हिंसन्ति ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: Those men who do not seek, even mentally, to take other peoples things even when they lie in a lone forest, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: ग्रामे गृहे वा ये द्रव्यं पारक्यं विजने स्थितम्। नाभिनन्दन्ति वै नित्यं ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: Those who not others' belongings, even when they see it lying in a house or a village that has been deserted, ascend to Heaven.
Sanskrit: तथैव परदारान् ये कामवृत्तान् रहोगतान्। मनसापि न हिंसन्ति ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: Those men who do not seek, even mentally, to associate with the married wives of others, even when they see them in deserted places and under the influence of desire, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: शत्रु मित्रं च ये नित्यं तुल्येन मनसा नराः। भजन्ति मैत्रा: संगम्य ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: Those men who, meeting with friends or enemies behave in the same friendly way towards all, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: श्रुतवन्तो दयावन्तः शुचयः सत्यसंगराः। स्वैरथैः परिसंतुष्टास्ते नरा: स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: Those men who are possessed of learning and mercy, who are pure in body and mind, men care who are firm in truth, and who are contented with what belongs to them, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: अवैरा ये त्वनायासा मैत्रीचित्तरताः सदा। सर्वभूतदयावन्तस्ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: Those men who do not bear illwell to any creature, who do not stand in need of labour for their livelihood, who bear friendly hearts towards all beings, and who entertain mercy towards all, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: श्रद्धावन्तो दयावन्तश्चोक्षाश्चोक्षजनप्रियाः। धर्माधर्मविदो नित्यं ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: Those men who have faith, who have mercy, who are holy, who scek the company of holy men, and who know the distinctions between right and wrong, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: शुभानामशुभानां च कर्मणां फलसंचये। विपाकज्ञाश्च ये देवि ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: Those men, O goddess, who know the consequences of good and bad deeds, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: न्यायोपेता गुणोपेता देवद्विजपराः सदा। समुत्थानमनुप्राप्तास्ते नराः स्वर्गगामिनः॥
English: Those men who are just in all their dealings, who have desirable accomplishinents, who are devoted to the deities and the Brahmanas, and who are persevering in doing all good acts, succeed in ascending to Heaven.
Sanskrit: शुभैः कर्मफलैर्देवि मयैते परिकीर्तिताः। स्वर्गमार्गपरा भूयः किं त्वं श्रोतुमिहेच्छसि॥
English: All these me, O goddess, succeed in ascending to Heaven through the meritorious results of their deeds. What else do you wish to hear?
Sanskrit: उमोवाच महान् मे संशयः कश्चन्मान् प्रति महेश्वर। तस्मात् त्वं नैपुणेनाद्य मम व्याख्यातुमर्हसि॥
English: Uma said I have a great doubt, O Maheshvara, on a subject about human beings. You should explain it to me carefully.
Sanskrit: केनायुर्लभते दीर्घ कर्मणा पुरुषः प्रभो। तपसा वापि देवेश केनायुर्लभते महत्॥
English: By what deeds does a man succeed, O powerful deity, in acquiring a long life? By what penances also does one acquire a long life?
Sanskrit: क्षीणायुः केन भवति कर्मणा भुवि मानवः। विपाकं कर्मणां देव वक्तुमर्हस्यनिन्दित॥
English: By what acts does one become shortlived on Earth? O you who are perfectly stainless, you should tell me what are the consequences of acts.
Sanskrit: अपरे च महाभाग्या मन्दभाग्यास्तथापरे। अकुलीनास्तथा चान्ये कुलीनाश्च तथापरे॥
English: Some have great good fortune and some suffer from misfortune. Some are possessed of noble, and some are of ignoble, birth.
Sanskrit: दुर्दर्शाः केचिदाभान्ति नरा: काष्ठमया इव। प्रियदर्शास्तथा चान्ये दर्शनादेव मानवाः॥
English: Some have such repulsive features as if they are made of wood, while others look very handsome at even the first sight.
Sanskrit: दुष्प्रज्ञाः केचिदाभान्ति केचिदाभान्ति पण्डिताः। महाप्राज्ञास्तथैवान्ये ज्ञानविज्ञानभाविनः॥
English: Some appear to have no wisdom, while others are possessed of it. Some, again, are seen gifted with high intelligence and wisdom, enlightened by knowledge and science.
Sanskrit: अल्पाबाधास्तथा केचिन्महाबाधास्तथापरे। दृश्यन्ते पुरुषा देव तन्मे व्याख्यातुमर्हसि॥
English: Some have to suffer little pain, while others there are that are loaded with heavy calamities. Such diverse sights are seen of men. O illustrious one, you should tell me the reason of all this!
Sanskrit: श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच हन्त तेऽहं प्रवक्ष्यामि देवि कर्मफलोदयम्। मर्त्यलोके नरः सर्वो येन स्वफलमश्नुते॥
English: The God of Gods said Indeed, O goddess, I shall describe to you the fruits of acts. It is by them that all human beings in this world enjoy or suffer the consequences of their acts.
Sanskrit: प्राणातिपाते यो रौद्रो दण्डहस्तोद्यतः सदा। नित्यमुद्यतशस्त्रश्च हन्ति भूतगणान् नरः॥ निर्दयः सर्वभूतानां नित्यमुद्वेगकारकः। अपि कीटपिपीलानामशरण्यः सुनिघृणः॥ एवंभूतो नरो देवि निरयं प्रतिपद्यते। विपरीतस्तु धर्मात्मा रूपवानभिजायते॥
English: That man who assumes a dreadful aspect for the purpose of taking the lives of other creatures, who arms himself with strong sticks for injuring other creatures, who is seen with uplifted weapons, who kills living creatures, who is shorn of mercy, who always causes tribulation to living beings, who refuses to grant protection to even worms and ants, who is cruel, one who is such, O goddess, sinks in Hell. One who has an opposite disposition and who is righteous in deeds, becomes born as a handsome man.
Sanskrit: पापेन कर्मणा देवि वध्यो हिंसारतिर्नरः। अप्रियः सर्वभूतानां हीनायुरुपजायते॥
English: The man who is cruel, goes to Hell, while he who is merciful, ascends to Hcaven. The man who goes to Hell, has to suffer great misery.
Sanskrit: निरयं याति हिंसात्मा याति स्वर्गमहिंसकः। यातनां निरये रौद्रां स कृच्छ्रां लभते नरः॥
English: One who, having sunk in Hell, rises therefrom, takes birth as a shortlived man.
Sanskrit: यः कश्चिन्निरयात् तस्मात् समुत्तरति कर्हिचित्। मानुष्यं लभते चापि हीनायुस्तत्र जायते॥ पापेन कर्मणा देवि बद्धो हिंसारतिर्नरः। अप्रियः सर्वभूतानां हीनायुरुपजायते॥ यस्तु शुक्लाभिजातीयः प्राणिघातविवर्जकः। निक्षिप्तशस्त्रो निर्दण्डो न हिंसति कदाचन॥ न घातयति ना हन्ति नंन्त नैवानुमोदते। सर्वभूतेषु सस्नेहो यथाऽऽत्मनि तथापरे॥ ईदृशः पुरुषोत्कर्षो देवि देवत्वमश्नुते। उपपन्नान् सुखान् भोगानुपाश्नाति मुदा युतः॥
English: That man who is given to slaughter and injury, O goddess, becomes, through his sinful deeds, liable to destruction. Such a person becomes disagreeable to all creatures and shortlived. That man who belongs to what is called the White class, who abstains from the destruction of living crcatures, who has thrown away all weapons, and never inflicts any punishment on any body, who never injures any creature, who never causes anybody to kill creatures for him, who never kills or strikes even when struck or attempted to be killed, who never sanctions or approves an act of destruction, who is gifted with mercy towards all creatures who treats others as his own self, such a superior man, O goddess, succeeds in acquiring to the dignity of a celestial. Filled with joy, such a man enjoys various kinds of luxurious articles.
Sanskrit: अथ चेन्मानुषे लोके कदाचिदुपपद्यते। तत्र दीर्घायुरुत्पन्न: स नरः सुखमेधते॥
English: If such a person is ever born in the world of men, he becomes longlived and enjoys great happiness.
Sanskrit: एष दीर्घायुषां मार्गः सुवृत्तानां सुकर्मिणाम्। प्राणिहिंसाविमोक्षेण ब्रह्मणा समुदीरितः॥
English: This is the way of those who are uf righteous conduct and righteous deeds, and who are blessed with longevity, the way that was marked out by the SelfCreate Brahman himself and which is marked by abstention from the destruction of living creatures.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच इत्युक्तोऽभिप्रशस्यैतत् परमर्षस्तु शासनम्। मोक्षधर्मार्थसंयुक्तमिदं प्रष्टुं प्रचक्रमे॥
English: Bhishma said Thus addressed by his father, Shuka, highly praising these instructions of the great Rishi, began to ask the following questions regarding the import of duties which brings on Liberation.
Sanskrit: शुक उवाच प्रज्ञावाश्रोत्रियो यज्वा कृतप्रज्ञोऽनसूयकः। अनागतामनैतिचं कथं ब्रह्माधिगच्छति॥
English: Shuka said By what means does a wise man well-read in the Vedas, observant of sacrifices, and shorn of malice attains to Brahma which is incapable of being apprehended by either direct evidence or inference, and incapable of being described by the Vedas.
Sanskrit: तवयस ब्रह्मचर्येण सर्वत्यागेन मेधया। सांख्ये वा यदि वा योग एतत् पृष्टो वदस्व मे॥
English: Asked by me, tell me by what means can Brahma be known. Is it by penance, by Brahmacharya, by renunciation of everything, by intelligence, by help of the Sankhya philosophy, or by the Yoga?
Sanskrit: मनसश्चेन्द्रियाणां च यथैकाम्यमवाप्यते। येनोपायेन पुरुषैस्तत् त्वं व्याख्यातुमर्हसि॥
English: What are the means and what sort of singleness of purpose may inen acquire regarding both, viz., the mind and the senses? You should explain all this to me!
Sanskrit: व्यास उवाच नान्यत्र विद्यातपसोर्नान्यत्रेन्द्रियनिग्रहात्। नान्यत्र सर्वसंत्यागात् सिद्धिं विन्दति कश्चन॥
English: Vyasa said No man achieves success by any other means save the acquisition of knowledge, the practice of penances, the control of the senses, and renunciation of everything.
Sanskrit: महाभूतानि सर्वाणि पूर्वसृष्टिः स्वयम्भुवः। भूयिष्ठं प्राणभृदग्नामे निविष्टानि शरीरिषु॥
English: The great elements (five in number) represent the first creation of the Self-create. They have been very largely put in embodied creatures living in the world of life.
Sanskrit: भूमेदेहो जलात् स्नेहो ज्योतिषश्चक्षुषी स्मृते। प्राणापानाश्रयो वायु: खेष्वाकाशं शरीरिणाम्॥
English: The bodies of all embodied creatures are originated from earth. Their humours originate from water. Their eyes originate from light. Prana, Apana (and other vital breaths), depend on the wind. And, lastly, all unoccupied apertures within them originate from Space.
Sanskrit: क्रान्ते विष्णुर्बले शक्रः कोष्ठेऽग्निर्भोक्तुमिच्छति। कर्णयोः प्रदिशः श्रोत्रं जिह्वायां वाक् सरस्वती॥
English: Vishnu is in the feet (of living creatures). Indra is in their arms. Within the stomach lies Agni, desirous of eating. The points of the horizon are in the ears, the organ of hearing. Speech, which is the goddess of learning, is in the tongue.
Sanskrit: कर्णी त्वक् चक्षुषी जिह्वार नासिका चैव पञ्चमी। दर्शनीयेन्द्रियोक्तानि द्वाराण्याहारसिद्धये॥
English: The ears, skin, eyes, tongue, and nose forming the fifth, are the senses of knowledge. These exist for apprehending their respective objects.
Sanskrit: शब्दः स्पर्शस्तथा रूपं रसो गन्धश्च पञ्चमः। इन्द्रियार्थान् पृथग्विद्यादिन्द्रियेभ्यस्तु नित्यदा॥
English: Sound, touch, from, taste, and scent for the fifth, are the objects of the (five) senses. These should always be considered as distinct from the senses.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रियाणि मनोयुङ्क्ते वश्यान् यन्तेव वाजिनः। पनश्चापि सदा युङ्क्ते भूतात्मा हृदयाश्रितः॥
English: Like the charioteer driving his well trained horses along the paths he likes, the mind, imoves the senses. The mind, in its turn, is inoved by the Understanding sitting in the heart.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रियाणां तथैवैषां सर्वेषामीश्वरं मनः। नियमे च विसर्गे च भूतात्मा मानसस्तथा॥
English: The mind is the lord of all these senses employing them in their functions and guiding controlling them. Likewise, the Understanding is the lord of the mind.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थाश्च स्वभावश्चेतना मनः। प्राणापानौ च जीवश्च नित्यं देहेषु देहिनाम्॥
English: The senses, the objects of the senses, the attributes of the objects of Nature, understanding, mind, the vital our and individual soul dwell in the bodies of all embodied creatures.
Sanskrit: आश्रयो नास्ति सत्त्वस्य गुणाः शब्दो न चेतना। सत्त्वं हि तेजः सृजति न गुणान् वै कथंचन॥
English: The body within which the Understanding lives, has no real existence. The body, therefore, is not the seat of the Understanding. Nature (Prakriti), endued with three qualities, is the refuge of the Understanding which exists only in the form of a sound. The Soul also is not the refuge of the Understanding. It is Desire which creates the Understanding. Desire, however, never creates the three qualities.
Sanskrit: एवं सप्तदशं देहे वृतं षोडशभिर्गुणैः। मनीषी मनसा विप्रः पश्यत्यात्मानमात्मनि॥
English: The wise man, capable of controlling his senses, sees the seventeenth, viz., the Soul as surrounded by six and ten qualities, in his own Understanding by the help of the mind.
Sanskrit: न ह्ययं चक्षुषा दृश्यो न च सर्वैरपीन्द्रियैः। मनसा तु प्रदीपेन महानात्मा प्रकाशते॥
English: The Soul cannot be seen with the help of the eye, or with that of all the senses. Getting over all, the Soul can be seen by only the light of the mind's lamp.
Sanskrit: अशब्दस्पर्शरूपं तदरसागन्धमव्ययम्। अशरीरं शरीरेषु निरीक्षेत निरिन्द्रियम्॥
English: Shorn of the properties of sound and touch and form, without taste and smell, indestructible and without a body and without senses, it is nevertheless seen within the body.
Sanskrit: अव्यक्तं सर्वदेहेषु मर्येषु परमाश्रितम्। योऽनुपश्यति स प्रेत्य कल्पते ब्रह्मभूयसे॥
English: Unmanifest and supreme, it lives in all mortal frames, Guided by the preceptor and the Vedas, he who sees it hereafter becomes Brahma's self.
Sanskrit: विद्याभिजनसम्पन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि। शुचि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिताः समदर्शिनः॥
English: The wise see impartially a Brahmana gifted with knowledge and disciples, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a Chandala.
Sanskrit: स हि सर्वेषु भूतेषु जङ्गमेषु ध्रुवेषु च। वसत्येको महानात्मा येन सर्वमिदं ततम्॥
English: Transcending all things, the Soul lives in all creatures, mobile and immobile.
Sanskrit: सर्वभूतेषु चात्मानं सर्वभूतानि चात्मनि। यदा पश्यति भूतात्मा ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा॥
English: When a living creature sees his own Soul in all things, and all things in his own Soul, he is said to attain to Brahma.
Sanskrit: यावानात्मनि वेदात्मा तावानात्मा परात्मनि। य एवं सततं वेद सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते॥
English: One occupies the Supreme Soul proportionate to what is occupied in one's own soul by Vedic sound. He who can always realise the identity of all things with his own self, forsooth, acquires immortality.
Sanskrit: सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्य विभोर्भूतहितस्य च। देवाऽपि मार्गे मुह्यन्ति अपदस्य पदैषिणः॥
English: Even the gods are stupefied in the path of that trackless man who forms the soul of all creatures, who is engaged in the well being of all creatures and who wishes to attain to the final refuge (of all things).
Sanskrit: शकुन्तानामिवाकाशे मत्स्यानामिव चोदके। यथा गतिर्न दृश्येत तथा ज्ञानविदां गतिः॥
English: Indeed, the road which is followed by men of knowledge is as invisible as that of birds in the sky or of fish in water.
Sanskrit: काल: पचति भूतानि सर्वाण्येवात्मनात्मनि। यस्मिस्तु पच्यते कालस्तं वेदेह न कश्चन॥
English: Time, by its own power, cooks all entities within itself. No one, however, knows That in which Time, again, is itself cooked.
Sanskrit: न तदूर्ध्वं न तिर्यक् च नाधो न च पुनः पुनः । न मध्ये प्रतिगृह्णीते नैव किंचित् कुतश्चन॥
English: That does not take place above, or in the middle or below, or in transverse or in any Other direction. That is no tangible thing and cannot be found in any placc.
Sanskrit: सर्वेऽन्तःस्था इमे लोका बाह्ममेषां न किंचन। यद्यजस्रं समागच्छेद् यथा बाणो गुणच्युतः॥ नैवान्तं कारणस्येयाद् यद्यपि स्यान्मनोजवः। तस्मात् सूक्ष्मात् सूक्ष्मतरं नास्ति स्थूलतरं ततः॥
English: All these worlds exists within That. There is nothing in these worlds which exists out of That. Even if one goes on ceaselessly with the motion of arrow shot off the bow-string, even if one goes on with the speed of the mind itself, one would not still get at the end of that which is the cause of all this. There is nothing grosser than that.
Sanskrit: सर्वतः पाणिपादं तत् सर्वतोऽक्षिशिरोमुखम्। सर्वतःश्रुतिमल्लोके सर्वमावृत्य तिष्ठति॥
English: His hands and feet are everywhere. His cyes, head, and face are everywhere. His ears are everywhere in the universe. He exists Occupying all things.
Sanskrit: तदेवाणोरणुतरं तन्महद्भ्यो महत्तरम्। तदन्तःसर्वभूतानां ध्रुवं तिष्ठन्न दृश्यते॥
English: That is minuter than the minutest, and is the heart of all things. Though existing, that is still imperceptible.
Sanskrit: अक्षरं च क्षरं चैव द्वैधीभावोऽयमात्मनः। क्षरः सर्वेषु भूतेष दिव्यं तमृतमक्षरम्॥
English: Indestructible and destructible,-these are the dual forms of the (Supreme) Self. The existence it shows in all mobile and immobile entities is destructible; while the existence in shows in Chaitanya is celestial, immortal, and indestructible.
Sanskrit: नवद्वारं पुरं गत्वा हंसो हि नियतो वशी। ईशः सर्वस्य भूतस्य स्थावरस्य चरस्य च॥
English: Though the master of all existent beings both mobile and immobile, though inactive and shorn of attributes, it enters nevertheless the well-known house of nine doors and becomes engaged in action.
Sanskrit: हानिभङ्गविकल्पानां नवानां संचयेन च। शरीराणामजस्याहुहँसत्वं पारदर्शिनः॥
English: Wise men who can see the other shore hold that the Supreme Soul becomes endued with the attribute of action on account of motion, pleasure and pain, variety of form, and the nine well-known possessions.
Sanskrit: हंसोक्तं चाक्षरं चैव कूटस्थं यत् तदक्षरम्। तद् विद्वानक्षरं प्राप्य जहाति प्राणजन्मनी॥
English: That indestructible Soul which is said to be endued with the attribute or action is nothing else than the indestructible Soul which is said to be inactive. A learned person, by attaining to that indestructible essence, gives up for ever both life and birth.
Sanskrit: नकुल उवाच उक्तं बहुविधं वाक्यं धर्मराजेन माधव। धर्मज्ञेन वदान्येन श्रुतं चैव हि तत् त्वया॥
English: Nakula said Words of different degrees of worth have been said by the just king, O Madhava, who knows what righteousness is and who is benevolent; and they have all been heard by you.
Sanskrit: मतमाज्ञाय राज्ञश्च भीमसेनेन माधव। संशमो बाहुवीर्यं च ख्यापितं माधवात्मनः॥
English: Bhimasena, having ascertained the wishes of the king, has dwelt on peace as well as on his own strength of arms, O Madhava.
Sanskrit: तथैव फाल्गुनेनापि यदुक्तं तत् त्वया श्रुतम्। आत्मनश्च मतं वीरं कथितं भवता सकृत्॥
English: In the same way what has been said by Falguna has been heard by you; and your own opinions, O hero have been expressed by you.