pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: यथाऽऽदित्यान्मणेश्चापि वीरुद्भ्यश्चैव पावकः। जायन्त्येवं समुदयात् कलानामिव जन्तवः॥
English: As fire is generated from the contact of flint with iron, or from two sticks of wood when rubbed against each other, so are creatures created from combination of the (thirty) principles already named.
Sanskrit: आत्मन्येवात्मनाऽऽत्मानं यथा त्वमनुपश्यसि। एवमेवात्मनाऽऽत्मानमन्यस्मिन् किं न पश्यसि॥
English: Indeed, as you yourself see your own body in your body and as you yourself see your soul in your own soul, why is it that you do not see your own body and your own soul in the bodies and souls of others.
Sanskrit: यद्यात्मनि परस्मिश्च समतामध्यवस्यसि। अथ मां कासि कस्येति किमर्थमनुपृच्छसि॥
English: If it is true that you see an identity with yourself and others, why then did you ask me who I am and whose?
Sanskrit: इदं मे स्यादिदं नेति द्वन्द्वैर्मुक्तस्य मैथिल। कासि कस्य कुतो वेति वचनैः किं प्रयोजनम्॥
English: If it is true that you have, O King, been freed from the knowledge of duality which says-this is mine and this other is not mine, then what use is there with such questions as Who are you, whose are you, and whence do you come?
Sanskrit: रिपौ मित्रेऽथ मध्यस्थे विजये संधिविग्रहे। कृतवान् यो महीपालः किं तस्मिन् मुक्तलक्षणम्।।१३०
English: What marks of Liberation can be said to take place in that king who acts as others act towards enemies and allies and neutrals and in victory and trace and war?
Sanskrit: त्रिवर्ग सप्तधा व्यक्तं यो न वेदेह कर्मसु। सङ्गवान् यस्त्रिवर्गेण किं तस्मिन् मुक्तलक्षणम्॥
English: What inarks of Liberation are in him who do not know the true nature of the three-fold objects of life as shown in seven ways in all acts and who, on that account, is attached to that three-fold objects?
Sanskrit: प्रिये वाप्यप्रिये वापि दुर्बले बलवत्यपि। यस्य नास्ति समं चक्षुः किं तस्मिन् मुक्तलक्षणम्॥१३२
English: What marks of Liberation exist in him who cannot look impartially on the agreeable, on the weak, and the strong? Unworthy as you are of it, your pretence to Liberation should be suppressed by your counsellors.
Sanskrit: तदयुक्तस्य ते मोक्षे योऽभिमानो भवेन्नृप। सुहृद्धिः संनिवार्यस्तेऽविरक्तस्येव भेषजम्॥
English: This your attempt to acquire Liberation is like the use of medicine by a patient who indulges in all sorts of forbidden food and practices.
Sanskrit: तानि तानि तु संचिन्त्य सङ्गस्थानान्यरिंदम। आत्मनाऽऽत्मनि सम्पश्येत् किमन्यन्मुक्तलक्षणम्॥
English: O chastiser of enemies, thinking of wives and other sources of attachment, one should see these in his own soul. What else can be considered as the indication of Liberation.
Sanskrit: इमान्यन्यानि सूक्ष्माणि मोक्षमाश्रित्य कानिचित्। चतुरङ्गप्रवृत्तानि सङ्गस्थानानि मे शृणु॥
English: Listen now to me as I speak fully of these and certain other minute sources of attachment belonging to the four-well-known acts to which you are still fettered though you profess yourself to have adopted the religion of Liberation.
Sanskrit: य इमां पृथिवीं कृत्स्नामेकच्छत्रां प्रशास्ति ह। एक एव स वै राजा पुरमध्यावसत्युत॥
English: That man who has to rule the entire world must, indeed, be a single king without a second. He is obliged to live in only a single palace.
Sanskrit: तत्पुरे चैकमेवास्य गृहं यदधितिष्ठति। गृहे शयनमप्येकं निशायां यत्र लीयते॥
English: In that palace he has again only one sleeping 'room. In that room he has, again, only one bed on which at night he is to lie down.
Sanskrit: शय्यार्धं तस्य चाप्यत्र स्त्रीपूर्वमधितिष्ठति। तदनेन प्रसङ्गेन फलेनैवेह युज्यते॥
English: Half that bed again he is obliged to give to his Queen. This may serve as an example of how little the king's share is of all he is said to possess.
Sanskrit: एवमेवोपभोगेषु भोजनाच्छादनेषु च। गुणेषु परिमेयेषु निग्रहानुग्रहं प्रति॥
English: This is the case with his objects of enjoyment, with the food he eats, and with the dresses he puts on. He is thus attached to a very limited share of all things. He is, again, attached to the duties of rewarding and punishing.
Sanskrit: परतन्त्रः सदा राजा स्वल्पेष्वपि प्रसज्जते। संधिविग्रहयोगे च कुतो राज्ञः स्वतन्त्रता॥
English: The king always depends on others. He enjoys a very small share of all he is supposed to possess, and to that small share he is compelled to be attached. In the matter also of peace and war, the king is not independent?
Sanskrit: स्त्रीषु क्रीडाविहारेषु नित्यमस्यास्वतन्त्रता। मन्त्रे चामात्यसमितौ कुतस्तस्य स्वतन्त्रता॥
English: In the matter of women, of sports and other sports of enjoyment, the king's inclinations are greatly limited. In the matter of taking advice and in the assembly of his councellors what independence can the king be said to have.
Sanskrit: यदा ह्याज्ञापयत्यन्यांस्तत्रास्योक्ता स्वतन्त्रता। अवशः कार्य ते तत्र तस्मिंस्तस्मिन् क्षणे स्थितः।।१४२
English: When, indeed, he passes orders on other men, he is said to be perfectly independent. But the moment after, in the several matters of his orders, his independence is limited by the very men whom he has ordered.
Sanskrit: स्वप्नकामो न लभते स्वप्तुं कार्यार्थिभिर्जनैः। शयने चाप्यनुज्ञातः सुप्त उत्थाप्यतेऽवशः॥
English: If the king wishes to sleep, he cannot satisfy his desire, resisted by those who have something to do with him. He must sleep when allowed, and while sleeping he is compelled to wake up for attending to those who have urgent business with him.
Sanskrit: स्नाह्यालभ पिब प्राश जुहुध्यग्नीन् यजेत्यपि। ब्रवीहि शृणु चापीति विवश: कार्यते परैः॥
English: Bathe, touch, drink, eat, pour libations on the fire, celebrate sacrifices, speak, hear,these are the words which kings have to hear from others and hearing them have to serve those that utter them.
Sanskrit: अभिगम्याभिगम्यैवं याचन्ते सततं नराः। न चाप्युत्सहते दातुं वित्तरक्षी महाजनान्॥
English: Men come in numbers to the king and pray to him for gifts. Being, however, the protector of the general treasury, he cannot make gifts even to the most worthy.
Sanskrit: दाने कोषक्षयोऽप्यस्य वैरं चास्याप्रयच्छतः। क्षणेनास्योपवर्तन्ते दोषा वैराग्यकारकाः॥
English: If he makes gifts, the treasury becomes exhausted. If he does not, disappointed solicitors regard him inimically. He becomes vexed and as the outcome of this, misanthropy possesses his mind.
Sanskrit: प्राज्ञाशूरांस्तथैवाढ्यानेकस्थानपि शङ्कते। भयमप्यभये राज्ञो यैश्च नित्यमुपास्यते॥
English: If many wise and heroic and rich men live together, the king's mind begins to be filled with distrust. Even when there is no cause of fear, the king fears those who always wait upon and adore him.
Sanskrit: तथा चैते प्रदुष्यन्ति राजन् ये कीर्तिता मया। तथैवास्य भयं तेभ्यां जायते पश्य यादृशम्॥
English: Those I have mentioned, O king, also find fault with him. See, how the king's fears may originate from even them.
Sanskrit: सर्वः स्वे स्वे गृहे राजा सर्वः स्वे स्वे गृहे गृही। निग्रहानुग्रहान् कुर्वंस्तुल्यो जनक राजभिः॥
English: Then again all men are kings in their own houses. All men, again, in their own houses are householders. Like kings, O Janaka, all men in their own houses punish and reward.
Sanskrit: पुत्रा दारास्तथैवात्मा कोशो मित्राणि संचयाः। परैः साधारणा ह्येते तैस्तैरेवास्य हेतुभिः॥१५०॥
English: Like kings others also have sons and wives and their own selves and treasuries and friends and stores. In these respects the king does not differ from other men.
Sanskrit: हतो देशः पुरं दग्धं प्रधानः कुञ्जरो मृतः। लोकसाधारणेष्वेषु मिथ्याज्ञानेन तप्यते॥
English: The country is ruined, the city is burnt by fire,-the foremost of elephants is dead, at all this the king grieves like others, little thinking that these impressions are all owing to ignorance and mistake.
Sanskrit: अमुक्तो मानसैर्दुःखैरिच्छाद्वेषभयोद्भवैः। शिरोरोगादिभी रोगैस्तथैवाभिनियन्तृभिः॥
English: The king is seldom freed from mental sorrows caused by desire and aversion and fear. He is generally afflicted also by headaches and various other diseases.
Sanskrit: द्वन्द्वैस्तैस्तैस्त्वपहतः सर्वतः परिशङ्कितः। बहुप्रत्यर्थिकं राज्यमुपास्ते गणयन्निशाः॥
English: The king is afflicted by all pairs of opposites. He is alarmed at everything. Indeed, beset with enemies and obstacles as kingdom is, the king, while he enjoys it, passes sleepless nights.
Sanskrit: तदल्पसुखमत्यर्थं बहुदुःखमसारवत्। तृणाग्निज्वलनप्रख्यं फेनबुबुदसंनिभम्॥
English: Sovereignty, therefore, is blessed with a small share of happiness. The misery with which it is full is very great. It is as unreal as burning flames fed by straw or the bubbles of froth seen on the surface of water.
Sanskrit: को राज्यमभिपद्येत प्राप्य चोपशमं लभेत्। ममेदमिति यच्चेदं पुरं राष्ट्रं च मन्यसे।१५५॥
English: Who is there that would like to obtain sovereignty, or having acquired sovereignty can hope to acquire tranquillity? You know this kingdom and this palace as yours.
Sanskrit: बलं कोशममात्यांश्च कस्यैतानि न वा नृप। मित्रामात्यपुरं राष्ट्रं दण्डः कोशो महीपतिः॥ सप्ताङ्गस्यास्य राज्यस्य त्रिदण्ड्यस्येव तिष्ठतः। अन्योन्यगुणयुक्तस्य कः केन गुणतोऽधिकः॥
English: You think also this army, this treasury, and these counsellors as yours. Whose, however, in sooth are they, and whose are they not? Allies, ministers, capital, provinces, punishment, treasury, and the king,—these seven which form the limbs of a kingdom exist, depending upon one another, like three sticks standing with one another's help. The merits of each are shown by the merits of the others. Which of them can be said to be superior to the rest?
Sanskrit: तेषु तेषु हि कालेषु तत्तदङ्गं विशिष्यते। येन यत् सिध्यते कार्यं तत् प्राधान्याय कल्पते॥
English: Some particular ones are regarded as superior to the rest when some important purpose is served through their agency. Superiority, for the time being, is said to belong to that one whose efficacy is thus seen.
Sanskrit: सप्ताङ्गश्चैव संघातस्त्रयश्चान्ये नृपोत्तम। सम्भूय दशवर्गोऽयं भुङ्क्ते राज्यं हि राजवत्॥
English: The seven limbs already mentioned, O best of kings, and the three others, forming ten, supporting one another, are said to enjoy the kingdom like the king himself.
Sanskrit: यश्च राजा महोत्साहः क्षत्रधर्मे रतो भवेत्। स तुष्येद् दशभागेन ततस्त्वन्यो दशावरैः॥
English: That king who is gifted with great energy and who is firmly attached to Kshatriya duties, should be satisfied with only a tenth part of the produce of the subject's field.Other kings are seen to be satisfied with less than a tenth part of such produce.
Sanskrit: नास्त्यसाधारणो राजा नास्ति राज्यमराजकम्। राज्येऽसति कुतो धर्मो धर्मेऽसति कुतः परम्॥
English: There is no one who possessed the kingly office without some one else possessing it in the world, and there is no kingdom without a king. If there be no kingdom, there can be no virtue and if there be no virtue, whence can Liberation arise.
Sanskrit: योऽप्यत्र परमो धर्मः पवित्रं राजराज्ययोः। पृथिवी दक्षिणा यस्य सोऽश्वमेधेन युज्यते॥
English: Merit of the most sacred and the highest order is associated with kings and kingdoms. By ruling a kingdom well, a king acquires the merit of a Horse-sacrifice with the whole Earth given away as sacrificial gift.
Sanskrit: साहमेतानि कर्माणि राजदुःखानि मैथिल। समर्था शतशो वक्तुमथवापि सहस्रशः॥
English: O king of Mithila, I can mention hundreds and thousands of faults like these that belong to kings and kingdoms.
Sanskrit: स्वदेहेनाभिषङ्गो मे कुतः परपरिग्रहे। न मामेवंविधां युक्तामीदृशं वक्तुमर्हसि॥
English: Then, again, when I have no real connection with even my body, how then can I be said to have any connection with the bodies of others? You cannot charge me with having tried to engender an inter-mixture of castes.
Sanskrit: ननु नाम त्वया मोक्षः कृत्स्नः पञ्चशिखाच्छ्रुतः। सोपाय: सोपनिषदः सोपासङ्गः सनिश्चयः॥
English: Have you heard the religion of Liberation in all its bearings from the lips of Panchashikha, together with its means, it methods, its practises, and its conclusion?
Sanskrit: तस्य ते मुक्तसङ्गस्य पाशानाक्रम्य तिष्ठतः। छत्रादिषु विशेषेषु पुनः सङ्गः कथं नृप॥
English: If you have prevailed over all your bonds and freed yourself from all attachments, may I ask you, O king, why you preserve your connections still with this umbrella and those other appendages of royalty.
Sanskrit: श्रुतं ते न श्रुत मन्ये मृषा वापि श्रुतं श्रुतम्। अथवा श्रुतसंकाशं श्रुतमन्यच्छ्रुतं त्वया॥
English: I think that you have not listened to the scriptures, or, you have listened to them without any advantage, or, perhaps, you have listened to some other books loO king like the scriptures.
Sanskrit: अथापीमासु संज्ञासु लौकिकीषु प्रतिष्ठसे। अभिषङ्गावरोधाभ्यां बद्धस्त्वं प्राकृतो यथा॥
English: It appears that you are endued with only worldly knowledge, and that like an ordinary man of the world, you are bound by the fetters of touch and wives and mansions and the like.
Sanskrit: सत्त्वेनानुप्रवेशो हि योऽयं त्वयि कृतो मया। किं तवापकृतं यत्र यदि मुक्तोऽसि सर्वशः॥
English: If be true that you have been freed from all fetters, what harm then have I done you by entering your body with only my Intellect?
Sanskrit: नियमो ह्येषु वर्णेषु यतीनां शून्यवासिता। शून्यमावेशयन्त्या च मया किं कस्य दूषितम्॥
English: The practice with Yatis is to live in uninhabited or deserted adodes. What harm them have I done to whom by entering your understanding which is indeed shorn of true knowledge?
Sanskrit: न पाणिभ्यां न बाहुभ्यां पादोरुभ्यां च चानघ। न गात्रावयवैरन्यैः स्पृशामि त्वां नराधिप॥
English: I have not touched you, O king, with my hands, or arms, or feet, or thighs, O sinless One, or with any other part of the body.
Sanskrit: कुले महति जातेन ह्रीमता दीर्घदर्शिना। नैतत्सदसि वक्तव्यं सद्वासद्वा मिथः कृतम्॥
English: You are born in a great family. You have modesty. You have foresight. Whether the act has been good or bad, my entrance into your person has been a private one, concerning us two only. Was it not unfair for you to proclaim that private act before all your ministers.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणा गुरवश्चेमे तथा मान्या गुरूत्तमाः। त्वं चाथ गुरुरप्येषामेवमन्योन्यगौरवम्॥
English: All these Brahmanas deserve respect. They are foremost of preceptors. You also are worthy of their respect, being their king. Doing them respect, you are entitled to receive reverence from them.
Sanskrit: तदेवमनुसंदृश्य वाच्यावाच्यं परीक्षता। स्त्रीपुंसोः समवायोऽयं त्वया वाच्यो न संसदि॥
English: Thinking on all this, it was not proper for you to proclaim before these foremost of men the fact of this union between two persons of opposite sexes, if indeed, you are really acquainted with the rules of propriety about speech.
Sanskrit: यथा पुष्करपर्णस्थं जलं तत्पर्णमस्पृशत्। तिष्ठत्यस्पृशती तद्वत् त्वयि वत्स्यामि मैथिल॥
English: O king of Mithila, I am living in you without touching you at all even like a drop of water on a lotus leaf that rests on it without drenching it in the least.
Sanskrit: यदि वाप्यस्पृशन्त्या मे स्पर्श जानासि कञ्चन। ज्ञानं कृतमबीजं ते कथं तेनेह भिक्षुणा॥
English: If, despite this, you still feel my touch, how can it be believed that through the instructions of the mendicant Panchashika, your knowledge has become disassociated from the sensual objects.
Sanskrit: स गार्हस्थ्याच्च्युतश्च त्वं मोक्षं चानाप्य दुर्विदम्। उभयोरन्तराले वै वर्तसे मोक्षवार्तिकः॥
English: You have, it is evident, deviated from the domestic mode of life, but you have not yet acquired Liberation that is so difficult to acquire. You live between the two, pretending that you have reach the goal of Liberation.
Sanskrit: न हि मुक्तस्य मुक्तेन ज्ञस्यैकत्वपृथक्त्वयोः। भावाभावसमायोगे जायते वर्णसंकरः॥
English: The contact of one that is liberated with another that has been so, or of Soul with Nature, cannot lead to an intermingling which you fear.
Sanskrit: वर्णाश्रमाः पृथक्त्वेन दृष्टार्थस्यापृथक्त्विनः। नान्यदन्यदिति ज्ञात्वा नान्यदन्यत्र वर्तते॥
English: Only those who consider the Soul to be at one with the body, and who think the several orders and modes of life to be really different from one another, commit the inistake of supposing an intermingling to be possible. My body is different from yours. But my soul is not different from your soul. When I am able to realise this, I have not the least doubt that my understanding is really not living in yours, though I have entered into you by Yoga.
Sanskrit: पाणौ कुण्डं तथा कुण्डे पयः पयसि मक्षिका। आश्रिताश्रययोगेन पृथक्त्वेनाश्रिताः पुनः॥
English: A pot is carried in the hand. In the pot there is milk. On the milk is a fly. Though the hand and pot, the pot and milk, and the milk and the fly, cxist together, yet they are all different from each other.
Sanskrit: न तु कुण्डे पयोभावः पयश्चापि न मक्षिका। स्वयमेवाप्नुवन्त्येते भावा ननु पराश्रयम्॥
English: The pot does not assume the nature of the milk. Nor does the milk partake the nature of the fly. The condition of each is in dependent of itself, and can never be changed by the condition of that other with which it may for the time being exist.
Sanskrit: पृथक्त्वादाश्रमाणां च वर्णान्यत्वे तथैव च। परस्परपृथक्त्वाच्च कथं ते वर्णसंकरः॥
English: Simnilarly, colour and practices, though they may exist together with and in a person that is liberated, do not really belong to him. How then can an intermingly of orders be possible on account of this union of myself with you.
Sanskrit: नास्मि वर्णोत्तमा जात्या न वैश्या नावरा तथा। तव राजन् सवर्णास्मि शुद्धयोनिरविप्लुता॥
English: Then, again, I am not superior to you in colour. Nor am I a Vaishya, nor a Shudra, I am, O king, of the same caste with you, born of a pure family.
Sanskrit: प्रधानो नाम राजर्षिर्व्यक्तं ते श्रोत्रमागतः। कुले तस्य समुत्पन्नां सुलभा नाम विद्धि माम्॥
English: There was a royal sage named Pradhana. It is clear that you have heard of him. I am born in his family, and my name is Sulabha.
Sanskrit: द्रोणश्च शत्शृङ्गश्च चक्रद्वारश्च पर्वतः। मम सत्रेषु पूर्वेषां चिता मघवता सह॥
English: In the sacrifices performed by my ancestors, the foremost of the gods, viz., Indra, used come, accompanied by Drona, Shatashringa, and Chakradvara.
Sanskrit: साहं तस्मिन् कुले जाता भर्तर्यसति मविधे। विनीता मोक्षधर्मेषु चराम्येका मुनिव्रतम्।।१८६।
English: Born in such a family, it was found that no fitting husband could be found for me. Instructed then in the religion of Liberation, I wander over the Earth alone, practising asceticism. to
Sanskrit: नास्मि सत्रप्रतिच्छन्ना न परस्वापहारिणी। न धर्मसंकरकरी स्वधर्मेऽसि धृतव्रता॥
English: I am not a hypocrite with regard to the life of Renunciation I follow; I am not a thief that appropriates others properties. I am not a confuser of the practices of the different castes. I am firm in the practices of the mode of life I follow.
Sanskrit: नास्थिरा स्वप्रतिज्ञायां नासमीक्ष्य प्रवादिनी। नासमीक्ष्यागता चेह त्वत्सकाशं जनाधिप॥
English: I am firm and steady in my vows. I never utter any word without thinking of its fitness. I did not come to you, without having thought properly, O king!
Sanskrit: मोक्षे ते भावितां बुद्धिं श्रुत्वाहं कुशलैषिणी। तव मोक्षस्य चाप्यस्य जिज्ञासार्थमिहागता॥
English: Having heard that your understanding has been purified by the religion of Liberation, I came here from desire of some good. Indeed, it was for enquiring of you about Liberation that I had come.
Sanskrit: न वर्गस्था ब्रवीम्येतत् स्वपक्षपरपक्षयोः। मुक्तो व्यायच्छते यश्च शान्तौ यश्च न शाम्यति॥
English: I do not say so for glorifying myself and humiliating my opponents. But I say it, out of sincerity only. What I say is that he who is liberated never vaunts that intellectual superiority which one shows by logical discussions for the sake of victory. He, on the other hand, is really liberated who devotes himself to Brahima, that sole seat of peace.
Sanskrit: यथा शून्ये पुरागारे भिक्षुरेकां निशां वसेत्। तथाहं त्वच्छरीरेऽस्मिन्निमां वत्स्यामि शर्वरीम्॥
English: As a person of the mendicant order lives for only one night in an emphy house, similarly, I shall live for this one night in your body.
Sanskrit: साहं मानप्रदानेन वागातिथ्येन चार्चिता। सुप्ता सुशरणं प्रीता श्वो गमिष्यामि मैथिल॥
English: You have honoured me with both words and other offers that are due from a host to a guest. Having slept this one night in your body, O king of Mithila, which is as it were my own chamber now, tomorrow I shall go.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच इत्येतानि स वाक्यानि हेतुमन्त्यर्थवन्ति च। श्रुत्वा नाधिजगौ राजा किञ्चिउदन्यदतः परम्॥
English: Bhishma said Hearing these words fraught with excellent sense and with reason, king Janaka could not replay thereto.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच कथं निर्वेदमापन्नः शुको वैयासकिः पुरा। एतदिच्छाम्यहं श्रोतुं परं कौतूहलं हि मे॥
English: Yudhishthira said How was Shuka the son of Vyasa, in days of yore, won over to Renunciation? I wish to hear you recite the story. My curiosity about it is irrepressible.
Sanskrit: अव्यक्तव्यक्ततत्त्वानां निश्चयं बुद्धिनिश्चयम्। वक्तुमर्हसि कौरव्य देवस्याजस्य या कृतिः॥
English: You should, O you of Kuru's race, describe to me on the conclusions about the Unmanifest, the Manifest, and of the Truth (or Brahma) that is in, but unattached to, them, as also of the acts of self-create Narayana, as they are known to you.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच प्राकृतेन सुवृत्तेन चरन्तमकुतोभयम्। अध्याप्य कृस्त्नं स्वाध्यायमन्वशाद् वै पिता सुतम्॥
English: Bhishma said Seeing his son Shuka living fearlessly as ordinary men do in practices that are regarded innocent by them, Vyasa taught him the entire Vedas and then discoursed to him one day in following manner.
Sanskrit: व्यास उवाच धर्मं पुत्र निषेवस्व सुतीक्ष्णौ च हिमातपौ। क्षुत्पिपासे च वायुंच जय नित्यं जितेन्द्रियः॥
English: Vyasa said O son, becoming the master of your senses, do you conquer extreme cold and extreme heat, hunger and thirst, and the wind also, and having controlled them, do you practise virtue.
Sanskrit: सत्यमार्जवमक्रोधमनसूयां दमं तपः। अहिंसां चानृशंस्यं च विधिवत् परिपालय॥
English: Do you duly observe truth and sincerity, and freedom from anger and malice, and selfcontrol and penances, and the duties of benevolence and mercy.
Sanskrit: सत्ये तिष्ठ रतो धर्मे हित्वा सर्वमनार्जवम्। देवतातिथिशेषेण मात्रां प्राणस्य संलिह॥
English: Rest you on truth, firmly devoted to virtue, renouncing all sorts of insincerity and deceit. Do you support your life on the remnants of food after feeding gods and guests.
Sanskrit: फेनमात्रोपमो देहे जीवे शकुनिवत् स्थिते। अनित्ये प्रियसंवासे कथं स्वपिषि पुत्रक॥
English: Your body is as fickle as the froth on the surface of water. The Individual Soul is sitting unattached in it as a bird on a tree. The companionship of all agreeable objects is transitory. Why then, O son, do you sleep in such forgetfulness?
Sanskrit: अप्रमत्तेषु जाग्रत्सु नित्ययुक्तेषु शत्रुषु। अन्तरं लिप्समानेषु बालस्त्वं नावबुध्यसे॥
English: Your enemies are careful and awake and ever-ready (to assail you) and always watchful of their opportunity. Why are you so foolish as not to know this?
Sanskrit: अहःसु गण्यमानेषु क्षीयमाणे तथाऽऽयुषि। जीविते लिख्यमाने च किमुत्थाय न धावसि॥
English: As the days are going one after another, and period of your life is being decreased. Indeed, when your life is being continually shortened, why do you not run to preceptors?
Sanskrit: ऐहलौकिकमीहन्ते मांसशोणितवर्धनम्। पारलौकिककार्येषु प्रसुप्ता भृशनास्तिकाः॥
English: Only they who have no faith, set their hearts on worldly things that have the only effect of increasing flesh and blood. They do not care for the next world.
Sanskrit: धर्माय येऽभ्यसूयन्ति बुद्धिमोहान्विता नराः। अपथा गच्छतां तेषामनुयाताऽपि पीड्यते॥
English: Those men who are stupefied by erroneous understandings show a hatred for virtue. The man who follows those misguided persons that have taken to devious and wrong paths is afflicted equally with them.
Sanskrit: ये तु तुष्टाः श्रुतिपरा महात्मानो महाबलाः। धर्म्य पन्थानमारूढास्तानुपास्स्व च पृच्छ च॥
English: They, however, who are contented, devoted to the scriptures, gifted with high souls, and possessed of great might, follow the path of virtue. Do you wait upon them with respect and seek instruction from them.
Sanskrit: उपधार्य मतं तेषां बुधानां धर्मदर्शिनाम्। नियच्छ परया बुद्ध्या चित्तमुत्पथगामि वै॥
English: Do you act according to the instructions received from those wise men whose eyes are set upon virtue. With understanding purified by such instructions and made superior, do you then control your heart which is ever ready to deviate from the right course.
Sanskrit: आद्यकालिकया बुद्ध्या दूरे श्व इति निर्भयाः। सर्वभक्ष्या न पश्यन्ति कर्मभूमिमचेतसः॥
English: They who always think about the present, who fearlessly consider the tomorrow as something quite remote,-they who do not observe any restrictions about food-are really senseless wights who fail to understand that this world is only a field of probation.