pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: सर्वभूतेश्वरो योगी मुनिरात्मा तथाऽऽत्मनः। स्थिरीभवत कृष्णोऽयं सर्वविघ्नविनाशनः॥
English: He is the Lord of all beings, the master of Yoga, the great ascetic, the Soul of all living beings. Be silent, all of you? He is Krishna, the destroyer of all impediments.
Sanskrit: कृत्वा कर्मातिसाध्वेतदशक्यममितप्रभः। समायातः स्वमात्मानं महाभागो महाद्युति॥
English: That Supreme God of immeasurable sheen, that great refuge of all blessings, having performed a most difficult task that cannot be accomplished by others, has returned to his own pure nature.
Sanskrit: पद्मनाभो महायोगी महात्मा भूतभावनः। न संतापो न भी: कार्या शोको वा सुरसत्तमाः॥
English: It is He from whose navel the primeval lotus had sprung. He is the foremost of Yogins. Of supreme soul, He is the creator of all beings. There is no necessity for sorrow or fear or grief, ye foremost of celestials.
Sanskrit: विधिरेष प्रभावश्च काल: संक्षयकारकः। लोकान् धारयता तेन नादो मुक्तो महात्मना॥
English: He is the Ordainer. He is the Creating Principle. He is all-destroying Time. It is He who maintains all the worlds. These roars that have alarmed you are being uttered by that great one.
Sanskrit: स एष हि महाबाहुः सर्वलोकनमस्कृतः। अच्युतः पुण्डरीकाक्षः सर्वभूतादिरीश्वरः॥
English: Of mighty arms, He is the object of universal adoration. Incapable of deterioration, that lotus-eyed one is the origin of all beings and their lord.' He is the Ordainer. He is the Creating Principle. He is all-destroying Time. It is He who maintains all the worlds. These roars that have alarmed you are being uttered by that great one.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच प्रवृत्तिलक्षणो धर्मो यथा समुपलभ्यते। तेषां विज्ञाननिष्ठानामन्यत्तत्वं न रोचते॥
English: Bhishma said more Persons who perform acts consider the performance of acts highly. Likewise, those who are devoted to Knowledge do not regard anything other than Knowledge.
Sanskrit: दुर्लभा वेदविद्वांसो वेदोक्तेषु व्यवस्थिताः। प्रयोजनं महत्त्वात्तु मार्गमिच्छन्ति संस्तुतम्॥
English: Rare are persons fully conversant with the Vedas and depending upon the injunctions contained therein. The intelligent however consider the abstention from acts as the better of the two, viz., heaven and liberation.
Sanskrit: सद्भिराचरितत्वात्तु वृत्तमेतदगर्हितम्। इयं सा बुद्धिरभ्येत्य यया याति परां गतिम्॥
English: Abstention of acts is observed by highly wise That conduct, therefore, is praiseworthy. The intelligence which advocates abstention from acts, is that by which one attains to liberation. men.
Sanskrit: शरीरवानुपादत्ते मोहात् सर्वान् परिग्रहान्। क्रोधलोभादिभिर्भावैर्युक्तो राजसतामसैः॥
English: Endued with body, a person, through folly, and endued with anger and cupidity and all the propensities born of Darkness and Ignorance, cherishes attachment for all earthly objects.
Sanskrit: नाशुद्धमाचरेत् तस्मादभीप्सन् देहयापनम्। कर्मणा विवरं कुर्वन्न लोकानाप्नुयाच्छुभान्॥
English: One, therefore, who wishes to destroy his connection with the body, should never perforin any impure act. On the other hand, one should create by his acts a path for attaining to Liberation, without wishing for regions of happiness.
Sanskrit: लोहयुक्तं यथा हेम विपक्वं न विराजते। तथापक्वकषायाख्यं विज्ञानं न प्रकाशते॥
English: As gold, when united with iron, losses its purity and cannot shine, so Knowledge, when existing with attachment to earthly objects and such other shortcomings, fails to display its splendour.
Sanskrit: यश्चाधर्मं चरेल्लोभात् कामक्रोधावनुप्लवन्। धर्म्य पन्थानमाक्रम्य सानुबन्धो विनश्यति॥
English: He who, influenced by cupidity, desire and anger, practises unrighteousness, transgressing the path of righteousness, is completely destroyed.
Sanskrit: शब्दादीन् विषयांस्तस्मान्न संरागादयं व्रजेत्। क्रोधो हर्षो विषादश्च जायन्तेह परस्परात्॥
English: One who is desirous of benefiting oneself should never seek, with too much attachment, earthly possessions representing by the objects of the senses. If one does it, anger and joy and sorrow arise from one another.
Sanskrit: पञ्चभूतात्मके देहे सत्त्वे राजसतामसे। कमभिष्टुवते चायं कं वाऽऽक्रोशति किं वदन्॥
English: When every one's body is made up of the five original elements as also of the three qualities of Goodness. Darkness, and Ignorance, whom shall one worship and whom shall one censure with what words?
Sanskrit: स्पर्शरूपरसाद्येषु सङ्गं गच्छन्ति बालिशाः। नावगच्छन्त्यविज्ञानादात्मानं पार्थिवं गुणम्॥
English: Only the fools become attached to the objects of the senses. On account of folly they do not know that their bodies are only modifications of earth.
Sanskrit: मृन्मयं शरणं यद्वन्मृदैव परिलिप्यते। पार्थिवोऽयं तथा देहो मृद्विकारान्न नश्यति॥
English: As a house made of earth is covered over with earth, so this body which is made of earth is saved from destruction by food which is only a change of earth.
Sanskrit: मधु तैलं पयः सर्पिर्मांसानि लवणं गुडः। धान्यानि फलमूलानि मृविकाराः सहाम्भसा॥
English: Honey, oil, milk, butter, meat, salt, treacle and grain of all kinds and fruit and roots are all modifications of earth and water.
Sanskrit: यद्वत् कान्तारमातिष्ठन्नौत्सुक्यं समनुव्रजेत्। ग्राम्यमाहारमादद्यादस्वाद्वपि हि यापनम्॥
English: Giving up all desire (for rich food) herinits living in the forest take simple and unsavoury food, for only keeping up the body.
Sanskrit: तद्वत् ससारकान्तारमातिष्ठश्रमतत्परः। यात्रार्थमद्यादाहारं व्याधितो भेषजं यथा॥
English: Likewise, a person who lives in the forest of the world, should be ready for labour and should take food for passing life, like a patient taking medicine.
Sanskrit: सत्यशौचार्जवत्यागैर्वर्चसा विक्रमेण च। क्षान्त्या धृत्या च बुद्ध्या च मनसा तपसैव च॥ भावान् सर्वानुपावृत्तान् समीक्ष्य विषयात्मकान्। शान्तिमिच्छन्नदीनात्मा संयच्छेदिन्द्रियाणि च॥
English: Examining all earthly things that meet him, by the help of truth, purity, candour, a spirit of। renunciation, enlightenment, courage, forgiveness, fortitude, intelligence, reflection, and austerities, and desirous of securing tranquillity, a person of great soul should restrain his senses.
Sanskrit: सत्त्वेन रजसा चैव तमसा चैव मोहिताः। चक्रवत् परिवर्तन्ते ह्यज्ञानाज्जन्तवो भृशम्॥
English: All creatures, stupefied by Ignorance by the qualities of Goodness, Darkness, and Ignorance and continually revolving like a wheel.
Sanskrit: तस्मात् सम्यक् परीक्षेत दोषानज्ञानसम्भवान्। अज्ञानप्रभवं दुःखमहंकारं परित्यजेत्॥
English: All faults, begotten of Ignorance should be closely examined and the idea of Self, which originates from Ignorance, and creates misery, should be avoided.
Sanskrit: महाभूतानीन्द्रियाणि गुणाः सत्त्वं रजस्तमः। त्रेलोक्यं सेश्वरं सर्वमहंकारे प्रतिष्ठितम्॥
English: The five elements, the senses, the qualities of Goodness, Darkness and Ignorance, the three worlds with the Supreme Being himself, and acts, all rest on Self-consciousness.
Sanskrit: यथेह नियतः कालो दर्शयत्यार्तवान् गुणान्। तद्वद्भूतेष्वहंकारं विद्यात् कर्मप्रवर्तकम्॥
English: As Time, under its own laws, always creates the seasons one after another, so one should know that Consciousness in all creatures is the mover of acts.
Sanskrit: सम्मोहकं तमो विद्यात् कृष्णमज्ञानसम्भवम्। प्रीतिदुःखनिबद्धांश्च समस्तांस्त्रीनथो गुणान्॥
English: Ignorance produces delusions. It is like Darkness and is born of Ignorance. All the joys and sorrows belong to the three qualities of Goodness, Darkness, and Ignorance.
Sanskrit: सत्त्वस्य रजसश्चैव तमसश्च निबोध तान्। प्रसादो हर्षजा प्रीतिरसंदहो धृतिः स्मृतिः। एतान् सत्त्वगुणान् विद्यादिमान् राजसतामसान्॥
English: Listen now to those consequences that spring from the qualities of Goodness, Darkness and Ignorance. Contentment, the satisfaction that arises from joy, certainty, intelligence, and memory,-these are the results of the quality of Goodness. I shall now describe the consequences of Darkness and Ignorance.
Sanskrit: कामक्रोधौ प्रमादश्च लोभमोहौ भयं क्लमः। विषादशोकावरतिर्मानदर्पावनार्यता।॥
English: Desire, anger, error, cupidity stupefaction, fear, and fatigue, belong to the quality of Darkness. Cheerlessness, grief discontent, vanity, pride, and wickedness, all belong to Ignorance.
Sanskrit: दोषाणामेवमादीनां परोक्ष्य गुरुलाघवम्। विमृशेदात्मसंस्थानमेकैकमनुसंततम्॥
English: Examining the weight or lightness of these and other evils that exist in the Soul, one should reflect upon each of them one after another.
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच के दोषा मनसा त्यक्ताः के बुद्ध्या शिथिलीकृताः। के पुनः पुनरायान्ति के मोहादफला इव॥
English: Yudhishthira said, What eviis are shunned by persons sceking Liberation? What are those that are weakened by them? What are the evils that come again and again? What, again, are regarded as week, through stupefaction.
Sanskrit: केषां बलाबलं बुद्ध्या हेतुभिर्विमशेद् बुधः। एष मे संशयस्तात तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह॥
English: What, indeed, are those evils upon whose gravity and weakness a wise man should reflect with the help of intelligence and of reason? I have doubts upon these subjects. Describe these to me, O grandfather.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच दोषैर्मूलादवच्छिन्नविशुद्धात्मा विमुच्यते। विनाशयति सम्भूतमयस्मयमयो यथा। तथा कृतात्मा सहजैर्दोषैर्नश्यति तामसैः॥
English: Bhishma said-‘By rooting out all evils, a person of pure Soul succeeds in obtaining Liberation. As an axe made of steel cuts a steel chain, similarly, a person of cleansed Soul, destroying all the evils that originate from Darkness and that are born with the Soul, succeeds in cutting off his connection with the body.
Sanskrit: राजसं तामसं चैव शुद्धात्मकमकल्मषम्। तत् सर्वं देहिनां बीजं सत्त्वमात्मवतः समम्॥
English: The qualities having their origin in Darkness, those that originate from Ignorance, and those stainless ones characterised by purity, form as it were the seed from which all embodied creatures have sprung. Amongst these, the quality of Goodness alone is the cause through which persons of pure souls succeed in attaining to Liberation.
Sanskrit: तस्मादात्मवता वर्षं रजश्च तम एव च। रजस्तमोभ्यां निर्मुक्तं सत्त्वं निर्मलतामियात्॥
English: A person of pure soul, therefore, should cast off all the qualities begotten of Darkness and Ignorance. Then again when the quality of Goodness becomes frced from those of Darkness and Ignorance it shines the more.
Sanskrit: अथवा मन्त्रवढ्युरात्मादानाय दुष्कृतम्। स वै हेतुरनादाने शुद्धधर्मानुपालने॥
English: Some say that sacrifices and other acts performed with the help of Mantras, and which bring about the purification of the Soul, are evil or cruel acts. On the other hand, those acts are the chief instruments for dissociating the Soul from all worldly attachments, and for the observance of the religion of peace.
Sanskrit: रजसाधर्मयुक्तानि कार्याण्यपि समाप्नुते। अर्थयुक्तानि चात्यर्थं कामान् सर्वांश्च सेवते॥
English: Through the influence of the qualities born of Darkness, all impious acts are perpetrated and all earthly acts as well as such acts as originate from desire are performed.
Sanskrit: तमसा लोभयुक्तानि क्रोधजानि च सेवते। हिंसाविहाराभिरतस्तन्द्रीनिद्रासमन्वितः॥
English: Through qualities born of Ignorance, one does all acts fraught with cupidity and springing from anger. In consequence of the attribute of Ignorance, one feels sleep and procrastination and becomes addicted to all acts of crucily and carnality.
Sanskrit: सत्त्वस्थः सात्त्विकान् भावाशुद्धान् पश्यति संश्रितः। स देही विमलः श्रीमाश्रद्धाविद्यासमन्वितः॥
English: That person, however, who endued with faith and scriptural knowledge, follows the quality of Goodness, attends only to all good things and becomes endued with beauty and a soul free froin every corruption.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच रजसा साध्यते मोहस्तमसा भरतर्षभ। क्रोधलोभौ भयं दर्प एतेषां सादनाच्छुचिः॥
English: Bhishma said Delusion or loss of judgement arises from the quality of Darkness. Anger, cupidity, fear and pride originate from the quality of Ignorance, O foremost of Bharata's race. When all these are destroyed, one becomes pure.
Sanskrit: परमं परमात्मानं देवमक्षयमव्ययम्। विष्णुमव्यक्तसंस्थानं विदुस्तं देवसत्तमम्॥
English: By obtaining purity, a person acquires the knowledge of the Supreme Soul which is effulgent, incapable of deterioration, without change, pervading all things, having the unmanifest for his refuge, and the foremost of all the gods.
Sanskrit: तस्य मायापिनद्धाङ्गा नष्टज्ञाना विचेतसः। मानवा ज्ञानसम्मोहात् ततः क्रोधं प्रयान्ति वै॥
English: By His illusory power men fall away from knowledge and become senseless, and their knowledge being darkened, yield to anger.
Sanskrit: क्रोधात् काममवाप्याथ लोभमोहौ च मानवाः। मानदर्पावहङ्कारमहङ्कारात् ततः क्रियाः॥
English: From anger, they become subject to desire. From desire originate cupidity, delusion, vanity, pride and selfishness. From such selfishness proceed various sorts of acts.
Sanskrit: क्रियाभिः स्नेहसम्बन्धात्स्नेहाच्छोकमनन्तरम्। सुखदुःखक्रियारम्भाज्जन्माजन्मकृतक्षणाः॥
English: From acts originate various ties of affection and from those ties of affection springs sorrow or misery and from acts imbued with joy and sorrow proceeds the liability to birth and death.
Sanskrit: जन्मतो गर्भवासं तु शुक्रशोणितसम्भवम्। पुरीषमूत्रविक्लेदं शोणितप्रभवाविलम्॥
English: On account of the obligation of birth, one is compelled to live within the womb,—for the union of vital seed and blood. Living there is defiled with excreta urine and phlegm, and always fouled with blood that is created there.
Sanskrit: तृष्णाभिभूतस्तैर्बद्धस्तानेवाभिपरिप्लवन्। संसारतन्त्रवाहिन्यस्तत्र बुद्ध्येत योषितः॥
English: Overwhelmed by thirst, the Intelligence Soul becomes fettered by anger and the rest that have been described above. It seeks, however, to escape those evils. In this respect, women must be considered as instruments which set the stream of Creation a going.
Sanskrit: प्रकृत्या क्षेत्रभूतास्ता नराः क्षेत्रज्ञलक्षणाः। तस्मादेवाविशेषेण नरोऽतीयाद् विशेषतः॥
English: By their nature, women are Kshetra, and men are Kshetrajna in respect of qualities. Therefore, wise persons should not pursue women especially.
Sanskrit: कृत्या ह्येता घोररूपा मोहयन्त्यविचक्षणान्। रजस्यन्तर्हिता मूर्तिरिन्द्रियाणां सनातनी॥
English: Indeed, women are like dreadful Mantra powers. They stupefy persons shorn of wisdom. They are sunk in the quality of Darkness. They are the eternal embodiment of the senses.
Sanskrit: तस्मात् तदात्मकाद् रागाद् बीजाज्जायन्ति जन्तवः। स्वदेहजानस्वसंज्ञान् यद्वदङ्गात् कृमीस्त्यजेत्। स्व संज्ञानस्वकांस्तद्वत् सुतसंज्ञान् कृमींस्त्यजेत्॥
English: On account of the strong desire that men cherish for women, offspring proceed from them, due to the action of the seminal fluid. As one throws off from his person such vermin as are born there but as are not on that account any part of oneself, so should one cast off those verinin of one's body that are called children, who, though regarded as one's own, are not his own in sooth.
Sanskrit: शुक्रतो रसतश्चैव देहाज्जायन्ति जन्तवः। स्वभावात् कर्मयोगाद् वा तानुपेक्षेत बुद्धिमान्॥
English: From the seminal fluid and sweat creatures spring from the body, influenced by pristino acts or in the course of nature. Therefore, a wise man should feel no regard for them.
Sanskrit: रजस्तमसि पर्यस्तं सत्त्वं च रजसि स्थितम्। ज्ञानाधिष्ठानमव्यक्तं बुद्ध्यहङ्कारलक्षणम्॥ तद् बीजं देहिनामाहुस्तद् बीजं जीवसंज्ञितम्। कर्मणा कालयुक्तेन संसारपरिवर्तनम्॥
English: The quality of Darkness rests on that of Ignorance. The quality of Goodness, again, rests on that of Darkness. Darkness which is unmanifest overspreads itself on Knowledge, and creates the phenomena of Intelligence and Consciousness has been described as the seed of individual Souls. That, again, which is the seed of such knowledge is called the Jiya (or Individual Soul). On account of acts and the virtue of time, the Soul goes through birth and repeated rounds of re-birth.
Sanskrit: रमत्ययं यथा स्वप्ने मनसा देहवानिव। कर्मग:गुणैर्देही गर्भे तदुपलभ्यते॥
English: As in a dream the Soul plays as if invested with a body which, of course, is due to the action of the mind, similarly, it gets in the mother's womb a body in consequence of qualities and propensities created by pristine deeds.
Sanskrit: कर्मणा बीजभूतेन चोद्यते यद् यदिन्द्रियम्। जायते तदहङ्काराद् रागयुक्तेन चेतसा॥
English: Whatever senses, while it is there, are awakened by pristine deeds as the operating cause, become created in Consciousness in consequence of the mind co-existing with attachments.
Sanskrit: शब्दरागाच्छ्रात्रमस्य जायते भावितात्मनः। रूपरागात् तथा चक्षुघ्रीणं गन्धचिकीर्षया॥
English: On account of the past thoughts of sound that are awakened in it, the Soul, subjected to such influences, gets the organ of hearing. Similarly, from attachment to forms, its eye is produced, and from its desire after smell its organ of smelling.
Sanskrit: स्पर्शने त्वक् तथा वायुः प्राणापानव्यपाश्रयः। व्यानोदानौ समानश्च पञ्चधा देहयापनम्॥
English: From thoughts of touch it acquires the skin. Likewise, the five vital airs are acquired by it, viz., Prana, Apana, Vyana, Udana, and Samana, which make the body agoing.
Sanskrit: संजातैर्जायते गात्रैः कर्मजैर्वम॑णा वृतः। दुःखाद्यन्तैर्दुःखमध्यैर्नरः शारीरमानसैः॥
English: Encased in body with all limbs fully developed on account of pristine deeds, the Soul takes birth, with both physical and mental sorrow, in the beginning, iniddle, and end.
Sanskrit: दुःखं विद्यादुपादानादभिमानाच्च वर्धते। त्यागात् तेभ्यो निरोधः स्यान्निरोधज्ञो विमुच्यते॥
English: It should be known that sorrow originates from the very formation of body in the womb). It increases with the idea of self. From renuciation of these, sorrow is destroyed. He who knows sorrow's end attains to Liberation.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रियाणां रजस्येव प्रलयप्रभवावुभौ। परीक्ष्य संचरेद् विद्वान् यथावच्छास्त्रचक्षुषा॥
English: Both the origin and the destruction of the senses depend on the quality of Darkness. A wise man should act with proper scrutiny with the help of the eye of the scriptures.
Sanskrit: ज्ञानेन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थान्नोपसर्पन्त्यतर्षुलम्। हीनैश्च करणैर्देही न देहं पुनरर्हति॥
English: The senses of knowledge, if they succeed in acquiring all their objects, can never stupefy the man who is without thirst. The embodied Soul, by making its senses weak, is saved from the obligation of re-birth.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच दुरन्तेष्विन्द्रियार्थेषु सक्ताः सीदन्ति जन्तवः। ये त्वसक्ता महात्मानस्ते यान्ति परमां गतिम्॥
English: Bhishma said By being attached to objects of the senses which are always imbued with evil, living creatures become helpless. Those great persons, however, who are not attached to them, acquire the greatest end.
Sanskrit: जन्ममृत्युजरादुःखैर्व्याधिभिर्मानसक्लमैः। दृष्ट्वैव संततं लोकं घटेन्मोक्षाय बुद्धिमान्॥
English: Seeing the world beset with the evils formed by birth, death, decrepitude, sorrow, disease, and anxieties, the man of intelligence should try for the attainment of Liberation.
Sanskrit: वाड्मनोभ्यां शरीरेण शुचिः स्यादनहंकृतः। प्रशान्तो ज्ञानवान् भिक्षुनिरपेक्षश्चरेत् सुखम्॥
English: He should be pure in words, thought and body; he should be shorn of pride. Of tranquil soul and endued with knowledge, he should live like a mendicant, and pursue happiness without being attached to any wordły object.
Sanskrit: अथवा मनसः सङ्गं पश्येद् भूतानुकम्पया। तत्राप्युपेक्षां कुर्वीत ज्ञात्वा कर्मफलं जगत्॥
English: Again, if his mind is filled with attachment for mercy to creatures, he should, seeing that the universe is the result of acts, one should show indifference even to mercy itself.
Sanskrit: यत् कृतं स्याच्छुभं कर्म पापं वा यदि वाश्नुते। तस्माच्छुभानि कर्माणि कुर्याद् वा बुद्धिकर्मभिः॥
English: Whatever good acts are done, or whatever sin is committed, the actor reaps the points thereof. Hence, one should, in words, thought, and deed, do only good acts.
Sanskrit: अहिंसा सत्यवचनं सर्वभूतेषु चार्जयम्। क्षमा चैवाप्रमादश्च यस्यैते स सुखी भवेत्॥
English: He enjoys happiness who practises abstention from injuring (others), truthfulness of speech, honesty towards all creatures, and forgiveness, and who is never careless.
Sanskrit: यश्चैनं परमं धर्मं सर्वभूतसुखावहम्। दुःखान्निःसरणं वेद सर्वज्ञः स सुखी भवेत्॥
English: Hence one, exercising his intelligence, should fix his mind, after training it, on peace towards all creatures.
Sanskrit: तस्मात् समाहितं बुद्ध्या मनो भूतेषु धारयेत्। नापध्यायेन स्पृहयेन्नाबद्धं चिन्तयेदसत्॥
English: That man who considers the practice of the virtues mentioned above as the greatest duty as securing the happiness of all creatures, and as destroying all sorts of sorrow, is possessed of the greatest knowledge, and succeeds in acquiring happiness. Hence, one should, exercising his intelligence, fix his mind, after training it, on peace towards all creatures.
Sanskrit: अथामोधप्रयत्नेन मनो ज्ञाने निवेशयत्। वाचामोघप्रयासेन मनोज्ञं तत् प्रवर्तते॥
English: One should never think of committing evil to others, One should not covet what is far above his power to acquire. One should not fix his thoughts on objects which are not real. One should, on the other hand, direct mind towards knowledge by continued exertions.
Sanskrit: विवक्षता च सद्वाक्यं धर्मं सूक्ष्ममवेक्षता। सत्यां वाचमहिंस्रां च वदेदनपवादिनीम्॥ कल्कापेतामपरुषामनृशंसामपैशुनाम्। ईदृगल्पं च वक्तव्यमविक्षिप्तेन चेतसा॥ वाक्प्रबद्धो हि संसारो विरागाद् व्याहरेद् यदि। बुद्ध्याप्यनुगृहीतेन मनसा कर्म तामसम्॥ रजोभूतैर्हि करणैः कर्मणि प्रतिपद्यते। स दुःखं प्राप्य लोकेऽस्मिन् नरकायोपपद्यते। तस्मान्मनोवाक्शरीरै राचरेद् धैर्यमात्मनः॥
English: With the help of the injunctions of the Shrutis and of continued efforts calculated to bring success, Knowledge is sure to originate. One who is desirous of saying good words or observing a religion which is purged off of all impurities, should speak only truth which is not fraught with any malice or censure. One who has got a sound heart should speak words which are not fraught with dishonesty, which are not harsh, which are not cruel, which are not evil, and which are not characterised by garrulity. The universe is bound in words. If a person disposed to renunciation he should proclaim, with a humble mind and a cleansed understanding, his own evil deeds. He who performs action, urged there to by propensities pervaded by the quality of Darkness, suffers much misery in this world and at last sinks into hell. One should, therefore, practise selfcontrol in body, words and mind.
Sanskrit: प्रकीर्णमेषभारं हि यद्वद् धार्येत दस्युभिः। प्रतिलोमां दिशं बुद्ध्वा संसारमबुधास्तथा॥
English: Ignorant persons bearing the weight of the world are like robbers laden with their booty of straggling sheep. The latter always avoid roads which are not favourable to them,
Sanskrit: तमेव च यथा दस्युः क्षिप्त्वा गच्छेच्छिवां दिशम्। तथा रजस्तमःकर्माण्युत्सृज्य प्राप्नुयाच्छुभम्॥
English: Indeed, as robbers have to throw away their booty if they wish safety, so should a person cast off all acts induced by Darkness and Ignorance, if he is to acquire happiness.
Sanskrit: नि:संदिग्धमनीहो वै मुक्तः सर्वपरिग्रहैः। विविक्तचारी लघ्वाशी तपस्वी नियतेन्द्रियः॥ ज्ञानदग्धपरिक्लेशः प्रयोगरतिरात्मवान्। निष्प्रचारेण मनसा परं तदधिगच्छति॥
English: Forsooth, a person who is shorn of desire, free from the fetters of the world, contented to live in solitude, abstemious in diet, devoted to penances, and with senses under restraint, who has consumed all his sorrows by knowledge, who finds pleasure in practising Yoga and who has a cleansed soul, succeeds, on account of his mind being withdrawn into itself, in attaining to Brahina or Liberation.
Sanskrit: धृतिमानात्मवान् बुद्धिं निगृह्णीयादसंशयम्। मनो बुद्ध्या निगृह्णीयाद् विषयान्मनसाऽऽत्मनः॥
English: One endued with patience and a pure soul should, forsooth, control his understanding. With the understanding, one should next restrain mind, and then with the mind overpower the objects of the senses.
Sanskrit: निगृहीतेन्द्रियस्यास्य कुर्वाणस्य मनो वशे। देवतास्तत् प्रकाशन्ते हृष्टा यान्ति तमीश्वरम्॥
English: Upon the mind being thus restrained and the senses being all subdued, the senses will shine and gladly enter into Brahma.
Sanskrit: ताभिः संयुक्तमनसो ब्रह्म तत् सम्प्रकाशते। शनैश्चोपगते सत्त्वे ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते॥
English: When one's senses are withdrawn into the mind, the result becomes that Brahma becomes manifested in it. Indeed, when the senses are destroyed, and the soul returns to the quality of pure existence, it is regarded as being transformed into Brahma.