pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: सर्वान्नानार्थयुक्तांश्च सर्वान् प्रत्यक्षहेतुकान्। यतः परं न विद्यते ततोऽभ्यासे भविष्यति॥
English: Indeed, one should comprehend various objects of various significancies, and all objects of direct perception. Then will come, from practice, that above which nothing cxists.
Sanskrit: श्रीभगवानुवाच ततस्तु तस्या ब्राह्मण्या मतिः क्षेत्रज्ञसंक्षये। क्षेत्रज्ञानेन परतः क्षेत्रज्ञेभ्यः प्रवर्तते॥
English: The holy one said Then the mind of the Brahmana's wife, upon the destruction of the Kshetrajna, became that which is beyond Kshctrajna, on account of the knowledge of Kshetra.
Sanskrit: अर्जुन उवाच क्व नु सा ब्राह्मणी कृष्ण क्व चासौ ब्राह्मणर्पभः। याभ्यां सिद्धिरियं प्राप्ता तावुभौ वद मेऽच्युत॥
English: Arjuna said, Where, indeed, is that Brahmana's wife, O Krishna, and where is that foremost of Brahmanas, by both of whom was such success acquired. Tell me about them, O you of undecaying glory.
Sanskrit: श्रीभगवानुवाच मनो मे ब्राह्मणं विद्धि बुद्धिं मे विद्धि ब्राह्मणीम्। क्षेत्रश्र इति यश्चोक्तः सोऽहमेव धनंजय॥
English: My mind is the Brahmana, and that my understanding is the Brahmana's wife. He who has been spoken of as Kshetrajna is I myself, O Dhananjaya.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण उवाच तदव्यक्तमनुद्रिक्तं सर्वव्यापि ध्रुवं स्थिरम्। नवद्वारं पुरं विद्यात् त्रिगुणं पञ्चधातुकम्॥
English: Brahman said That which is unmanifest, which is indistinct, all-pervading, everlasting, immutablc, should be known to become the city of nine portals, possessed of three qualities, and consisting of five ingredients.
Sanskrit: एकादशपरिक्षेपं मनोव्याकरणात्मकम्। बुद्धिस्वामिकमित्येतत् परमेकादशं भवेत्॥
English: Encompassed by cleven including Mind which distinguishes (objects) and having Understanding for the ruler, this is an aggregate of cleven.
Sanskrit: त्रीणि स्रोतांसि यान्यस्मिन्नाप्यायन्ते पुनः पुनः। प्रनाड्यस्तिस्र एवैताः प्रवर्तन्ते गुणात्मिका:॥
English: The three ducts that are in it, support it always. These are ihe three Nadis. They run continually, and have the three qualities for their essence.
Sanskrit: तमो रजस्तथा सत्त्वं गुणानेतान् प्रचक्षते। अन्योन्यमिथुनाः सर्वे तथान्योन्यानुजीविनः॥
English: Ignorance, Darkness, and Goodness, these are called the (three) qualities. These are connected with one another. They exist depending on one another.
Sanskrit: अन्योन्यापाश्चयाश्चापि तथान्योन्यानुवर्तिनः। अन्योन्यव्यतिषक्ताश्च त्रिगुणाः पञ्चधातवः॥
English: They take refuge in one another, and follow one another. They are also joined with one another. The five (principal) elements are marked by (these) three qualities.
Sanskrit: तमसो मिथुनं सत्त्वं सत्त्वस्य मिथुनं रजः। रजसञ्चापि सत्त्वं स्यात् सत्त्वस्य मिथुनं तमः॥
English: Goodness is also the match of Ignorance. Of goodness the match of Darkness. Goodness is also the match of Darkness, and of Goodness the match is Ignorance.
Sanskrit: नियम्यते तमो यत्र रजस्तत्र प्रवर्तते। नियम्यते रजो यत्र सत्त्वं तत्र प्रवर्तते॥
English: There where Ignorance is restrained, Darkness is seen to flow. There where Darkness is restrained, Goodness is scen to flow.
Sanskrit: नैशात्मक तमो विद्यात् त्रिगुणं मोडसंज्ञितम्। अधर्मलक्षणं चैव नियतं पापकर्मसु। तामसं रूपमेतत् तु दृश्यते चापि सङ्गत्तम्॥
English: Darkness should be known to have the night for its essence. It has three marks, and is (otherwise) called Delusion. It has sin also for its mark, and it is always present in all sinful deeds. This is the nature of Ignorance and it appears also as confined with others.
Sanskrit: प्रकृत्यात्मकमेवाहू रजः पर्यायकारकम्। प्रवृत्तं सर्वभूतेषु दृश्यमुत्पत्तिलक्षणम्॥
English: Darkness is said to have activity for its essence. It is the cause of successive deeds. When it predominates, its mark, among all beings, is production,
Sanskrit: प्रकाशं सर्वभूतेषु लाघवं श्रद्दधानता। सात्त्विक रूपमेवं तु लाघवं साधुसम्मितम्॥
English: Splendour, lightness, and faith-these are the form, that is light, of Goodness among all creatures, as considered by all good men.
Sanskrit: एतेषां गुणतत्त्वानि वक्ष्यन्ते तत्त्वहेतुभिः। समासव्यासयुक्तानि तत्त्वतस्तानि बोधत॥
English: The true nature of their marks will now be declared by me, with reasons. These shall be stated in aggregation and separation. Do you understand them.
Sanskrit: सम्मोहोऽज्ञानमत्यागः कर्मणामविनिर्णयः। स्वप्नः स्तम्भो भयं लोभः स्वतः सुकृतदूषणम्॥ अस्मृतिश्चाविपाकश्च नास्तिक्यं भिन्नवृत्तिता। निर्विशेषत्वमन्धत्वं जघन्यगुणवृत्तिता॥ अकृते कृतमानित्वमज्ञाने ज्ञानमानिता। अमैत्री विकृताभावो ह्यश्रद्धा मूढभावना॥ अनार्जवमसंज्ञत्वं कर्म पापचेतना। गुरुत्वं सन्नभावत्वमवशित्वमवाग्गतिः॥ सर्व एते गुणा वृत्तास्तामसाः सम्प्रकीर्तिताः। ये चान्ये विहिता भावा लोकेऽस्मिन् भावसंज्ञिताः।। तत्र तत्र नियम्यन्ते सर्वे ते तामसा गुणाः। परिवादकथा नित्यं देवब्राह्मणवैदिकी॥ अत्यागश्चाभिमानश्च मोहो मन्युस्तथाक्षमा। मत्सरश्चैव भूतेषु तामसं वृत्तमिप्यते॥
English: Complete delusion, Ignorance, illiberality, indecision about action, sleep, haughtiness, fcar, cupidity, grief, censure of good deeds, loss of meinory, unripeness of judgeinent, absence of faith, violation of all rules of conduct, want of discrimination, blindness, vileness of conduct, boastful assertion of performance when there has been performance, presumption of knowledge in ignorance, unfriendliness (or hostility), evilness of disposition, absence of faith, stupid reasoning, crookedness, incapacity for association, sinfull action, senselessness, stolidity, assitude, absence of self-control, degradation, all these qualities are known as no belonging to Ignorance. Whatever other states of mid, connected with delusion, exist in the world, all belong to Ignorance, Frequent illspeaking of other people, censuring the celestials and the Brahmanas, illiberality, vanity, delusion, anger, unforgiveness, hostility towards all creatures, are considered as the characteristics of Ignorance.
Sanskrit: वृथारम्भा हि ये केचिद् वृथा दानानि यानि च। वृथा भक्षणमित्येतत् तामसं वृत्तमिष्यते॥
English: Whatever undertakings exist which are unmeritorious, what gifts there are which are unmeritorious, vain cating, these also belong to Ignorance.
Sanskrit: अतिवादोऽतितिक्षा च मात्सर्यमभिमानिता। अश्रद्दधानता चैव तामसं वृत्तमिष्यते॥
English: Indulgence in calumny, unforgiveness, animosity, vanity, and absence of faith are also said to be characteristic of Ignorance.
Sanskrit: एवंविधाश्च ये केचिल्लोकेऽस्मिन् पापकर्मिणः। मनुष्या भिन्नमर्यादास्ते सर्वे तामसाः स्मृताः॥
English: Whatever men there are in this world, who are characterised by these and other faults of a similar kind, and who break through the restraints are all considered as belonging is the quality of Ignorance.
Sanskrit: तेषां योनीः प्रवक्ष्यामि नियताः पापकर्मिणाम्। अवानिरयभावा ये तिर्यनिरयगामिनः॥
English: I shall now declare the wombs wherс these men, who are always of sinful deeds, have to take their birth. Ordained to go to hell, they sink in the order of being. Indeed, they sink into the hell of the brute creation.
Sanskrit: स्थावराणि च भूतानि पशवो वाहनानि च। क्रव्यादा दन्दशूकाश्च कृमिकीटविहंगमाः॥ अण्डजा जन्तवश्चैव सर्वे चापि चतुष्पदाः। उन्मत्ता बधिरा मूका ये चान्ये पापरोगिणः॥
English: They become immobile entities, or animals, or beasts of burden; or carnivorous creatures, or snakes, or worms, insects, and birds; or creatures of the oviparous order, or quadrupeds of various species, or lunatics, or deal or bomb human beings, or men who are afflicted by dreadful maladies and considered as unclcan.
Sanskrit: मग्नास्तमसि दुर्वृत्ताः स्वकर्म कृतलक्षणाः। अवाक्स्रोतस इत्येते मग्नास्तमसि तामसाः॥
English: These men of evil conduct, always show the marks of their deeds, sink in Ignorance. Their course is always downwards. Belonging to the quality of Ignorance, they sink in Ignorance.
Sanskrit: तेषामुत्कर्षमुद्रेकं वक्ष्याम्यहमत: परम्। यथा ते सुकृताँल्लोकाँल्लभन्ते पुण्यकर्मिणः॥
English: I shall, after this, declare what the means are of their improvement and ascent; indeed, by what means they succeed in acquiring the regions which exist for men of pious deeds.
Sanskrit: अन्यथा प्रतिपन्नास्तु विवृद्धा ये च कर्मणः। स्वकर्मनिरतानां च ब्राह्मणानां शुभैषिणाम्॥ संस्कारेणोर्ध्वमायान्ति यतमाना: सलोकताम्। स्वर्गे गच्छन्ति देवानामित्येषा वैदिकी श्रुतिः॥
English: Those men who take birth in orders other than human beings, by growing up in view of the religions ceremonies of Brahmanas devoted to the duties of their own caste and desirous of doing good to all creatures, succeed through the help of such purificatory rites, in ascending upwards. Indeed, struggling, they at last attain the sam? regions with thcsc pious Brahmanas. Indeed, they go to the celestial region. This is the Vedic Shruti.
Sanskrit: अन्यथा प्रतिपन्नास्ते विबुद्धाः स्वेष कर्मसु। पुनरावृत्तिधर्माणस्ते भवन्तीह मानुषा:॥
English: Born in orders other then humanity and growing old in their respective deeds, cven thus they become human beings that are, of course, ordained to return.
Sanskrit: पापयोनिं समापन्नाश्चण्डाला मूकचूचुकाः। वर्णान् पर्यायशश्चापि प्राप्नुवन्त्युत्तरोत्तरम्॥ शूद्रयोनिमतिक्रम्य ये चान्ये तामसा गुणाः। स्रोतोमध्ये समागम्य वर्तन्ते तामसे गुणे॥
English: Coming to sinful births and becoming Chandalas or human beings that are deaf or to who lisp indistinctly, they attain to higher and higher castes, one after another in proper turn, getting above the Shudra order, and other (consequences of) qualities which belong to Ignorance and who abide in it in course of migrations this world.
Sanskrit: अभिष्वङ्गस्तु कामेषु महामोह इति स्मृतः। ऋषयो मुनयो देवा मुह्यन्त्यत्र सुखेप्सवः॥
English: Attachment to objects of desire is considered as great delusion. Here Rishis and Munis and celestials become deluded, desirous of pleasure.
Sanskrit: तमो मोहो महामोहस्तामिस्रः क्रोधसंज्ञितः। मरणं त्वन्धतामिस्रस्तामिस्रः क्रोध उच्यते॥
English: Ignorance, delusion, the great delusion, the great obscurity called anger, and death, that blinding obscurity. As regards anger, that is the great obscurity.
Sanskrit: वर्णतो गुणतश्चैव योनितश्चैव तत्त्वतः। सर्वमेतत्तमो विप्राः कीर्तितं वो यथाविधि॥
English: With respect then to its colour, its characteristics, and its source, I have, you learned Brahmanas, declared to you, accurately and in due order, everything, about Ignorance.
Sanskrit: कोन्वेतद् बुध्यते साधु कोन्वेतत् साधु पश्यति। अतत्त्वे तत्त्वदर्शी यस्तमसस्तत्त्वलक्षणम्॥
English: Who is there what truly gets over it? Who is there who truly sees it? That indeed, is the characteristic of Ignorance, viz., the seeing of reality in what is not real.
Sanskrit: तमोगुणा बहुविधाः प्रकीर्तिता यथावदुक्तं च तमः परावरम्। नरो हि यो वेद गुणानिमान् सदा स तामसैः सर्वगुणैः प्रमुच्यते॥
English: The qualities of Ignorance have been declared to you in various ways. Duly has Ignorance, in its higher and lower forms, been described to you. That man who always bears in mind the qualities mentioned here will surely succeed in becoming freed from all marks which belong to Ignorance.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण उवाच अतः परं प्रवक्ष्यामि तृतीयं गुणमुत्तमम्। सर्वभूतहितं लोके सतां धर्ममनिन्दितम्॥
English: Brahman said I shall, after this, describe to you that excellent quality which is the third. It is beneficial to all creatures in the world, and unblamable, and forms the conduct of the good.
Sanskrit: आनन्दः प्रीतिरुद्रेक: प्रकाश्यं सुखमेव च। अकार्पण्यमसंरम्भः सन्तोष: श्रद्दधानता॥ क्षमा धृतिरहिंसा च समता सत्यमार्जवम्। अक्रोधश्चानसूया च शौचं दाक्ष्यं पराक्रमः॥
English: Joy, satisfaction, nobility, enlightenment, and happiness, absence of stinginess, absence of fear, contentment, disposition for faith, forgiveness, courage, abstention from injuring any creature, equability, truth, straightforwardness, absence of anger, absence of malice, purity, cleverness, prowess, belong to the quality of Goodness.
Sanskrit: मुधा ज्ञानं मुधा वृत्तं मुधा सेवा मुधा श्रमः। एवं यो युक्तधर्मः स्यात् सोऽमुत्रात्यन्तमश्नुते॥
English: He who is devoted to the duty of Yoga, considering knowledge to the vain conduct to be vain, service to be vain, and mode of life to be vain, attains to what is highest in the next world.
Sanskrit: निर्ममो निरहङ्कारो निराशी: सर्वतः समः। अकामभूत इत्येव सतां धर्मः सनातनः॥
English: Freedom from cgoism, freedom from expectations, loO king on all impartially, and freedom from desire, these form the cternal religion of the good.
Sanskrit: विश्राभो हीस्तितिक्षा च त्याग शौचमतन्द्रिता। आनृशंस्यमसम्मोहो दया भूतेष्वपैशुनम्॥ हर्षस्तुष्टिविस्मयश्च विनयः साधुवृत्तिता। शान्तिकी शुद्धिश्च शुभा बुद्धिर्विमोचनम्॥ उपेक्षा ब्रह्मचर्ये च परित्यागश्च सर्वशः। निर्ममत्वमनाशीष्ट्वमपरिक्षतधर्मता॥ मुधा दानं मुधा यज्ञो मुधाऽधीतं मुधा व्रतम्। मुधा प्रतिग्रहश्चैव मुधा धर्मो मुधा तपः॥
English: Confidence, modesty, forgiveness, renunciation, purity, absence of laziness, absence of cruelty, absence of delusion, mercy to all creatures, absence of the disposition to calumniate, exultation, satisfaction, rapture, humility, good conduct, purity in all acts having for their object the attainment of tranquility, righteous understanding, liberation, indifference, celibacy, complete renunciation, freedom from the idea of mineness, freedom from expectations, unbroken observance of virtuc, belic that gifts are vain, sacrifices are vain, study is vain, vows are vain, acceptance of gifts is vain, observance of duties is vain, and penances are vain.
Sanskrit: एवंवृत्तास्तु ये केचिल्लोकेऽस्मिन् सत्त्वसंश्रयाः। ब्राह्मणा ब्रह्मयोनिस्थास्ते धीराः साधुदर्शिनः॥
English: Those Brahmanas in this world, whose conduct is marked by these virtues, who follow virtue, who abide in the Vedas, are said to be wise and possessed of correctness of vision.
Sanskrit: हित्वा सर्वाणि पापानि निःशोका ह्यथ मानवाः। दिवं प्राप्य तु ते धीराः कुर्वते वै ततस्तनूः॥
English: Freed from sins and grief, those wise men attain to the celestial region and create various bodies (for themselves).
Sanskrit: ईशित्वं च वशित्वं च लघुत्वं मनसश्च ते। विकुर्वते महात्मानो देवास्त्रिदिवगा इव॥
English: The power of governing everything, selfcontrol, minuteness, these great ones make by operations of their own mind, like the gods themselves living in the celestial region.
Sanskrit: अर्ध्वस्रोतस इत्येते देवा वैकारिकाः स्मृताः। विकुर्वन्तः प्रकृत्या वै दिवं प्राप्तास्ततस्ततः॥
English: Such men are said to have their courses directed upwards. They are veritable gods capable of modifying all things. Attaining to the celestial region, they modify all things by their very nature.
Sanskrit: यद् यदिच्छन्ति तत् सर्व भजन्ते विभजन्ति च। इत्येतत् सात्त्विकं वृत्तं कथितं वो द्विजर्षभाः। एतद् विज्ञाय लभते विधिवद् यद् यदिच्छति॥
English: They get whatever objects they desire and cnjoy them. Thus have I, you foremost of twice-born ones, described to you what that conduct is which belongs to the quality of goodness. Understanding these duly, one acquires whatever objects one desires.
Sanskrit: प्रकीर्तिताः सत्त्वगुणा विशेषतो यथावदुक्त गुणवृत्तमेव च। नरस्तु यो वेद गुणानिमान् सदा गुणान् स भुङ्क्ते न गुणैः स युज्यते।
English: The qualities which belong to goodness have been declared particularly. The conduct which those qualities form, has also been properly described. That man who always understands these qualities, succeeds in enjoying the qualities without being attached to them.
Sanskrit: नरस्तु यो वेद गुणानिमान् सदा गुणान् स भुङ्क्ते न गुणैः स युज्यते।
English: The qualities which belong to goodness have been declared particularly. The conduct which those qualities form, has also been properly described. That man who always understands these qualities, succeeds in enjoying the qualities without being attached to them.
Sanskrit: नैव शक्या गुणा वक्तुं पृथक्त्वेनैव सर्वशः। अविच्छिन्नानि दृश्यन्ते रजः सत्त्वं तमस्तथा॥
English: The qualities are incapable of being described as completely separate from one another. Darkness and Goodness and Ignorance are seen existing in a state of union.
Sanskrit: अन्योन्यमथ रज्यन्ते ह्यन्योन्यं चार्थजीविनः। अन्योन्यमाश्रयाः सर्वे तथान्योन्यानुवर्तिनः॥
English: They are attached to one another. They depend on one another. The have one another for their support. They likewise follow one another.
Sanskrit: यावत्सत्त्वं रजस्तावद् वर्तते नात्र संशयः। यावत्तमश्च सत्त्वं च रजस्तावदिहोच्यते॥
English: As long as goodness exists, so long does Darkness cxist. There is no doubt in this. As long as Ignorance and Goodness exist, so long does Darkness exist.
Sanskrit: संहत्य कुर्वते यात्रां सहिताः संघचारिणः। संघातवृत्तयो ह्येते वर्तन्ते हेत्वहेतुभिः॥
English: They travel together, in union, and moving collectively. They move in a body; when they act with cause or without cause.
Sanskrit: उद्रेकव्यतिरिक्तानां तेषामन्योन्यवर्तिनाम्। वक्ष्यते तद् यथा न्यूनं व्यतिरिक्तं च सर्वशः॥
English: Of all these which work with one another however much they may differ in their an development, the manner in which their increase and diminution take place will now be described.
Sanskrit: व्यतिरिक्तं तमो यत्र तिर्यग् भावगतं भवेत्। अल्पं तत्र रजो ज्ञेयं सत्त्वमल्पतरं तथा॥
English: There where Ignorance exists in increased measure, in the lower creatures (for example), Darkness exists in a smaller measure and Goodness in a still lesser degree.
Sanskrit: उद्रिक्त च रजो यत्र मध्यस्रोतोगतं भवेत्। अल्पं तत्र तमो ज्ञेयं सत्त्वमल्पतरं तथा॥
English: These where Darkness predominates, in creatures of middle course, Ignorance exists in a smaller measure and Goodness in a still smaller quantity.
Sanskrit: उद्रिक्तं च यदा सत्त्वमूर्ध्वस्रोतोगतं भवेत्। अल्पं तत्र तमो ज्ञेयं रजश्चाल्पतरं तथा॥
English: There where Goodness predominates in creatures of upward course, Ignorance should be known to exist in a small measure, and Darkness in a still lesser quantity.
Sanskrit: सत्त्वं वैकारिकी योनिरिन्द्रियाणां प्रकाशिका। न हि सत्त्वात् परो धर्मः कश्चिदन्यो विधीयते॥
English: Goodness is the spring which causes the modification of the senses. It is, again, the great enlightener. No duty has been laid down that is higher than Goodness.
Sanskrit: ऊर्ध्व गच्छन्ति सत्त्वस्था मध्ये तिष्ठन्ति राजसाः। जघन्यगुणसंयुक्ता यान्त्यधस्तामसा जनाः॥
English: They who abide in Goodness proceed upwards. They who abide in Darkness remain in the middle. They who abide in Ignorance being characterised by qualities that are low, sink downwards.
Sanskrit: तमः शूद्रे रजः क्षत्रे ब्राह्मणे सत्त्वमुत्तमम्। इत्येवं त्रिषु वर्णेषु विवर्तन्ते गुणास्त्रयः॥
English: Ignorance is in the Shudra; Darkness in the Kshatriya; and Goodness, which is the highest, in the Brahmana. The three qualities exist thus in the three castes.
Sanskrit: दूरादपि हि दृश्यन्ते सहिताः संघचारिणः। तमः सत्त्वं रजश्चैव पृथक्त्वे नानुशुश्रुम॥ उच्यते॥
English: From a distance, the three qualities of Goodness, Darkness and Ignorance, are seen to exist in a state of union and more collectively. They are never seen in a state of separation.
Sanskrit: दृष्ट्वा त्वादित्यमुद्यन्तं कुचराणां भयं भवेत्। अध्वगाः परितप्येयुरुष्णतो दुःखभागिनः॥
English: Seeing the Sun rising, men of evil deeds become filled with fear. Travellers on their way become afflicted with heat, and suffer distress.
Sanskrit: आदित्यः सत्त्वमुद्रिक्तं कुचरास्तु तथा तमः। परितापोऽध्वगानां च रजसो गुण
English: The Sun is Goodness developed; men of evil deeds represent Ignorance; the heat which travellers on their way feel, is said to be a quality of Darkness.
Sanskrit: प्रकाश्यं सत्त्वमादित्यः संतापो रजसो गुणः। उपप्लवस्तु विज्ञेयस्तामसस्तस्य पर्वसु॥
English: Thic Sun representing light is Goodness; the heat is the quality of Darkness; the shading (or eclipse) of the Sun on Parvan days, should be known to represent Ignorance.
Sanskrit: एवं ज्योतिष्षु सर्वेषु निवर्तन्ते गुणास्त्रयः। पर्यायेण च वर्तन्ते तत्र तत्र तथा तथा॥
English: Thus, the three qualities exist in all luminous bodies. They act by turns in various places in various ways.
Sanskrit: स्थावरेषु तु भावेषु तिर्यग्भावगतं तमः। राजसास्तु विवर्तन्ते स्नेहभावस्तु सात्त्विकः॥
English: Among immobile objects, the quality of Ignorance predominates. The qualities belonging to Darkness are those properties of their is which suffer constant changes. Their oleaginous qualities belong to Goodness.
Sanskrit: अहस्त्रिधा तु विज्ञेयं त्रिधा रात्रिविधीयते। मासार्धमासवर्षाणि ऋतवः संधयस्तथा॥
English: The Day should be understood as threefold. The Night has been ordained to be threefold. So also are fortnights, months, years, seasons, and conjunctions.
Sanskrit: त्रिधा दानानि दीयन्ते त्रिधा यज्ञः प्रवर्तते। त्रिधा लोकास्त्रिधा देवास्त्रिधा विद्यास्त्रिधा गतिः।।१९
English: The gifts are threefold. Threefold is sacrifice. Threefold are the worlds; threefold the celestials; threefold is knowledge; and threefold the path or end.
Sanskrit: भूतं भव्यं भविष्यं च धर्मोऽर्थः काम एव च। प्राणापानावुदाश्चाप्येत एव त्रयो गुणाः॥
English: The Past, the Present, and the future, Religion, Profit and Pleasure, Prana, Apana, and Udana, these also are permeated by the three qualities.
Sanskrit: पर्यायेण प्रवर्तन्ते तत्र तत्र तथा तथा। यत्किंचिदिह लोकेऽस्मिन् सर्वमेते त्रयो गुणाः॥
English: Whatever object exists in this world, everything in it, is fraught with the three qualities. The three qualities act by turns in all things and in all circumstances.
Sanskrit: त्रयो गुणाः प्रवर्तन्ते ह्यव्यक्ता नित्यमेव तु। सत्त्वं रजस्तमश्चैव गुणसर्ग: सनातनः॥
English: Indeed, the three qualities always act in an unmanifest form. The creation of those three, viz., Goodness, Darkness and Ignorance is eternal.
Sanskrit: तमो व्यक्तं शिवं धाम रजो योनिः सनातनः। प्रकृतिर्विकारः प्रायः प्रधानं प्रभवाप्ययौ॥ अनुद्रिक्तमनूनं वाप्यकम्पमचलं ध्रुवम्। सदसच्चैव तत् सर्वमव्यक्तं त्रिगुणं स्मृतम्। ज्ञेयानि नामधेयानि नरैरध्यात्मचिन्तकैः॥
English: The unmanifest, consisting of the three qualities, is said to be darkness, unperceived, holy constant, unborn, womb, eternal, Nature, change or modification, destruction, Pradhana, production, and absorption, undeveloped, not small (i.e., vast), unshaking, immovable, fixed, existent, and non-existent. All these names should be known by those who meditate on matters about the soul.
Sanskrit: अव्यक्तनामानि गुणांश्च तत्त्वतो यो वेद सर्वाणि गतीश्च केवलाः। विमुक्तदेहः प्रविभागतत्त्ववित् स मुच्यते सर्वगुणैर्निरामयः॥
English: That person who accurately knows all the names of the unmanifest, and the qualities, as also the pure actions, well conversant with the truth-about all distinctions and freed from the body, becomes emancipated from all the qualities and enjoys absolute happiness. That person who accurately knows all the names of the unmanifest, and the qualities, as also the pure actions, well conversant with the truth-about all distinctions and freed from the body, becomes emancipated from all the qualities and enjoys absolute happiness.
Sanskrit: ब्रह्मोवाच य उत्पन्नो महान् पूर्वमहंकारः स उच्यते। अहमित्येव सम्भूतो द्वितीयः सर्ग उच्यते॥
English: Brahman said That Mahat or principle of greatness who was first produced is called Egoism. When, it originated as I, it came to be called as the second creation.
Sanskrit: अहंकारश्च भूतादिकारिक इति स्मृतः। तेजश्चेतना धातुः प्रजासर्गः प्रजापतिः॥
English: That Egoism is said to be the source of all creatures, for these have originated from its modifications. It is pure effulgence and is the supporter of consciousness. It is Prajapati.
Sanskrit: देवानां प्रभवो देवो मनसश्च त्रिलोककृत्। अहमित्येव तत्सर्वमभिमन्ता स उच्यते॥
English: It is a deity, the creator of deities, and of mind. It is the which creates the three worlds. It is said to be that which feels-I am all this.
Sanskrit: अध्यात्मज्ञानतृप्तानां मुनीनां भावितानाम्। स्वाध्यायक्रतुसिद्धानामेष लोकः सनातनः॥
English: That is the eternal world existing for those sages who are contented with knowledge about the soul, who have meditated on the soul, and who have acquired success by Vedic study and sacrifices.
Sanskrit: अहंकारेणाहरतो गुणानिमान् भूतादिरेवं सृजते स भूतकृत्। वैकारिकः सर्वमिदं विचेष्टते स्वतेजसा रञ्जयते जगत् तथा॥
English: By consciousness of soul one enjoys the qualities. That source of all creatures, that creator of all creatures, creates thus. It is that which causes all changes. It is that which causes all beings to move. By its own light ii lights up the universe likewise.
Sanskrit: मनुष्याणां तु राजन्यः क्षत्रियो मध्यमो गुणः। कुञ्जरो वाहनानां च सिंहचारण्यवासिनाम्॥ अविः पशूनां सर्वेषामहिस्तु बिलवासिनाम्। गवां गोवृषभश्चैव स्त्रीणां पुरुष एव च॥
English: Brahman said Among men, the royal Kshatriya is gifted with the middle quality. Among vehicles, the elephant (is so); and among dwellers of the forest the lion; among all (sacrificial) animals, the sheep; among all those that live in holes, is the snake; among cattle, the bull; among females, the male.