pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: न चापि शूद्रः पततीति निश्चयो न चापि संस्कारमिहार्हतीति वा। श्रुतिप्रवृत्तं न च धर्ममाप्नुते न चास्य धर्मे प्रतिषेधनं कृतम्॥
English: The Shudra never falls down; nor is he worthy of any of the rites of regeneration. The course of duties originating from the Vedas is not his. He is not interdicted, however, from practising the thirteen duties which are common to all the castes.
Sanskrit: वैदेह कं शूद्रमुदाहरन्ति द्विजा महाराज श्रुतोपपन्नाः। अहं हि पश्यामि नरेन्द्र देवं विश्वस्य विष्णु जगतः प्रधानम्॥
English: O king of the Videhas, Brahmanas learned in the Vedas, O king, regard a (virtutous) Shudra as equal to Brahman himself. I, however, O king, regard such a Shudra as the effulgent Vishnu of the universe, the foremost one in all the worlds.
Sanskrit: सतां वृत्तमधिष्ठाय निहीना उद्दिधीर्षवः। मन्त्रवर्जं न दुष्यन्ति कुर्वाणाः पौष्टिकी: क्रियाः॥
English: Persons of the lowest caste, desiring to root out the evil passions, may follow the conduct of the good; and, while so acting, they may acquire great merit by performing all rites that lead to advancement, omitting the Mantras which are to be uttered by the other castes while performing the self-same ceremonies.
Sanskrit: यथा यथा हि सद्वृत्तमालम्बन्तीतरे जनाः। तथा तथा सुखं प्राप्य प्रेत्य चेह च मोदते।॥
English: Wherever persons of the lowest caste follow the conduct of the good, they succeed in acquiring happiness on account of which they are able to pass their time in happiness both in this world and the next.
Sanskrit: जनक उवाच किं कर्म दूषयत्येनमथो जातिर्महामुने। संदेहो मे समुत्पन्नस्तन्मे व्याख्यातुमर्हसि॥
English: Janaka said O great ascetic, is man sullied by his deeds or is he stained by the order or class in which he is born? A doubt has arisen in my mind. You should expound this to me.
Sanskrit: पराशर उवाच असंशयं महाराज उभयं दोषकारकम्। कर्म चैव हि जातिश्च विशेषं तु निशामय॥
English: Parashara said Forsooth, O king, both, viz., acts and birth, are sources of demerit. Listen now to their difference.
Sanskrit: जात्या च कर्मणा चैव दुष्टं कर्म न सेवते। जात्या दुष्टश्च य: पापं न करोति स पूरुषः॥
English: That man who, though sullied by birth, does not coinmit sin, abstains from sin notwithstanding birth and acts.
Sanskrit: जात्या प्रधानं पुरुषं कुर्वाणं कर्म धिक्कृतम्। कर्म तद् दूषयत्येनं तस्मात् कर्म न शोभनम्॥
English: If, however, a person of superior birth perpetrates censurable deeds, such acts pollute him. Hence, of the two, viz., acts and birth, acts pollute man.
Sanskrit: जनक उवाच कानि कर्माणि धाणि लोकेऽस्मिन् द्विजसत्तम। न हिंसन्तीह भूतानि क्रियमाणानि सर्वदा॥
English: Janaka said What are those righteous acts in this world, 0 best of all twice-born ones, the accomplishment of which does not inflict any injury upon other creatures?
Sanskrit: पराशर उवाच शृणु मेऽत्र महाराज यन्मां त्वं परिपृच्छसि। यानि कर्माण्यहिंस्राणि नरं त्रायन्ति सर्वदा॥
English: Parashara said Hear from me, O king, about what you ask, viz.., those acts free from injury which always rescue man.
Sanskrit: संन्यस्याग्नीनुदासीनाः पश्यन्ति विगतज्वराः। नैःश्रेयसं कर्मपथं समारुह्य यथाक्रमम्॥ प्रश्रिता विनयोपेता दमनित्याः सुसंशिताः। प्रयान्ति स्थानमजरं सर्वकर्मविवर्जिताः॥
English: Those who, keeping aside their domestic fires, have freed themselves from all worldly attachments, become freed from all anxieties. Gradually getting up step by step, in the path of Yoga, they at last see the stage of highest happiness. Gifted with faith and humility, always practising self-control, possessed of keen intelligence, and abstaining from all acts, they acquire eternal happiness.
Sanskrit: सर्वे वर्णा धर्मकार्याणि सम्यक् कृत्वा राजन् सत्यवाक्यानि चोक्त्वा। त्यक्तवाधर्म दारुणं जीवलोके यान्ति स्वर्ग नात्र कार्यो विचारः॥
English: All classes of men, O king, by duly doing virtuous acts, by speaking the truth, and by abstaining from sin, in this world, go up to heaven. There is no doubt in this.
Sanskrit: पराशर उवाच पिता सखायो गुरवः स्त्रियश्च न निर्गुणानां हि भवन्ति लोके। अनन्यभक्ता: प्रियवादिनश्च हिताश्च वश्याश्च भवन्ति राजन्॥
English: Parashara said The father, the friends, the preceptors, and the wishes of the preceptors of men who are shorn of devotion, are unable to give to those men the merits derivable from devotion. Only they who are firmly devoted to such elders, who speak what is agreeable to them, who speek their well-being, and who are submissive to them in conduct, can acquire the merit to devotion.
Sanskrit: पिता परं दैवतं मानवानां मातुर्विशिष्टं पितरं वदन्ति। ज्ञानस्य लाभं परमं वदन्ति जितेन्द्रियार्थाः परमाप्नुवन्ति॥
English: That father is the highest of gods with his children. It is said that the father is superior to the mother. The acquirement of Knowledge is are considered as the hightest acquisition. They who have subjugating the objects of the senses, acquire what is highest.
Sanskrit: रणाजिरे यत्र शराग्निसंस्तरे नृपात्मजो घातमवाप्य दह्यते। प्रयाति लोकानमरैः सुदुर्लभान्। निषेवते स्वर्गफलं यथासुखम्॥
English: That Kshatriya prince, who going to the battle-field, receives wounds amid fiery arrows shooting in all directions and burns therewith, certainly goes to regions which unattainable by the very gods and, arrived there enjoys the happiness of heaven in perfect contentiment.
Sanskrit: श्रान्तं भीतं भ्रष्टशस्त्रं रुदन्तं पराङ्मुखं पारिबहश्च हीनम्। अनुद्यन्तं रोगिणं याचमानं न वै हिंस्याद् बालवृद्धौ च राजन्॥
English: A Kshatriya should not, O king, strike one who is fatigued, or one who is terrified, or one who has been disarmed, or one who is weeping, or one who is reluctant to fight, or one who is unequipped with mail and cars and horse and infantry, or one who has ceased to exert in the fight, or one who is ill, or one who cries for quarter. Or one who is of tender years, or one who is old.
Sanskrit: पारिबहः सुसंयुक्तमुद्यतं तुल्यतां गतम्। अतिक्रमेत् तं नृपतिः संग्रामे क्षत्रियात्मजम्॥
English: A Kshatriya should, in battle, fight one of his order, who is equipped with mail and cars and horse and infantry who is ready for battle, and who is a compeer.
Sanskrit: तुल्यादिह वधः श्रेयान् विशिष्टाच्चेति निश्चयः। निहीनात् कातराच्चैव कृपणाद् गर्हितो वधः॥
English: Death at the hands of one who is equal or of a superior is praiseworthy, but not that at the hands of one that is low, or of one who is a coward, or of one who is a wretch. This is well known.
Sanskrit: पापात् पापसमाचारनिहीनाच्च नराधिप। पाप एव वधः प्रोक्तो नरकायेति निश्चयः॥
English: Death at the hands of one who is sinful, or of one who is of low birth and wicked conduct, O king is infamous and leads to hell.
Sanskrit: न कश्चित् त्राति वै राजन् दिष्टान्तवशमागतम्। सावशेषायुषं चापि कश्चिन्नैवापकर्षति॥
English: One whose lease of life has run out, cannot be saved by any body. Likewise, one whose lease of life has not run out can never be killed by any one.
Sanskrit: स्निग्धैश्च क्रियमाणानि कर्माणीह निवर्तयेत्। हिंसात्मकानि सर्वाणि नायुरिच्छेत् परायुषा॥
English: One should prevent his affectionate elders from doing to his such acts as done by menials, as also all such acts as can injure others. One should never wish to extend his own life by taking the lives of others.
Sanskrit: गृहस्थानां तु सर्वेषां विनाशमभिकासताम्। निधनं शोभनं तात पुलिनेषु क्रियावताम्॥
English: When they sacrifice their lives, it is laudable for all householders observing the duties of men living in sacred places to give up their lives on the banks of sacred rivers.
Sanskrit: आयुषि क्षयमापन्ने पञ्चत्वमुपगच्छति। तथा ह्यकारणाद् भवति कारणैरुपपादितम्॥
English: When one lease of life is over, his body dissolved into the five elements. Sometimes this occurs suddenly and some times it is brought about by (natural) causes.
Sanskrit: तथा शरीरं भवति देहाद् येनोपपादितम्। अध्वानं गतकशायं प्राप्तश्चायं गृहाद् गृहम्॥
English: He who having obtained a body, destroys it himself becomes invested with another body of a similar nature. Though set on the path of Liberation, he yet becomes a traveller and acquires another body like a person going from one room into another.
Sanskrit: द्वितीयं कारणं तत्र नान्यत् किंचन विद्यते। तद् देहं देहिनां युक्तं पञ्चभूतेषु वर्तते॥
English: About such a man's attainment of a second body the only cause is his accidental death. There is no second cause. That new body which embodied creatures obtain, comes into existence and becomes attached to Rudras and Pishachas.
Sanskrit: शिरास्नायवस्थिसंघातं बीभत्सामेध्यसंकुलम्। भूतानामिन्द्रियाणां च गुणानां च समागमम्॥ त्वगन्तं देहमित्याहुर्विद्वांसोऽध्यात्मचिन्तकाः। गुणैरपि परिक्षीणं शरीरं मर्त्यतां गतम्॥
English: Learned men, conversant with spiritual science say that the body is a compound of arteries and sinews and bones and much repulsive and impure matter and a compound of essences, and the senses and the objects of the senses born of desire, all having an outer cover of skin close to them. Shorn of beauty and other accomplishments, this compound, through force of the desires of a pristine life, assumes a human forin.
Sanskrit: शरीरिणा परित्यक्तं निश्चेष्टं गतचेतनम्। भूतैः प्रकृतिमापन्नस्ततो भूमौ निमज्जति॥
English: Left off by the owner, the body becomes inanimate and motionless. Indeed, when the principal ingredients return to their respective natures, the body is mixed up with the dust.
Sanskrit: भावितं कर्मयोगेन जायते तत्र तत्र ह। इदं शरीरं वैदेह म्रियते यत्र यत्र ह।
English: Caused by its union with deeds, this body reappears under circumstances determined by its deeds. Indeed O king of the Videhas, under whatever circumstances this body is dissolved, its next birth, determined by the these circumstances, is seen to enjoy and endure the fruits of all its pristine deeds.
Sanskrit: तत्स्वभावोऽपरो दृष्टो विसर्गः कर्मणस्तथा॥ न जायते तु नृपते कंचित् कालमयं पुनः।
English: Individual Soul after dissolution of the body is inhabited, does not, O king, take birth in a different body at once.
Sanskrit: परिभ्रमति भूतात्मा द्यामिवाम्बुधरो महान्॥ स पुनर्जायते राजन् प्राप्येहायतनं नृप।
English: ones It roves through the sky for sometime take a spacious cloud. Getting a new receptacle, O king, it then takes birth again.
Sanskrit: मनसः परमो ह्यात्मा इन्द्रियेभ्यः परं मनः॥ विविधानां च भूतानां जङ्गमाः परमा नृपा
English: The Soul is above the mind. The mind is above the senses. Mobile creatures, again, are foremost of all created objects.
Sanskrit: जङ्गमानामपि तथा द्विपदाः परमा गताः॥ द्विपदानामपि तथा द्विजा वै परमाः समृताः।
English: Amongst mobile creatures the two legged are superior. Amongst two-legged creatures, those that are are twice-born are superior.
Sanskrit: द्विजानामपि राजेन्द्र प्रज्ञावन्तः परा मताः। प्राज्ञानामात्मसम्बुद्धाः सम्बुद्धानाममानिनः॥
English: Amongst those that are twice-born they who are endued with wisdom are superior. Amongst them who are endued with wisdom they that have succeeded in acquiring a knowledge of the soul are superior. Amongst those who are endued with a knowledge of the soul, those who are endued with humility are superior.
Sanskrit: जातमन्वेति मरणं नणामिति विनिश्चयः। अन्तवन्ति हि कर्माणि सेवन्ते गुणतः प्रजाः॥
English: Death follows birth in all men. This is settled. Creatures, influenced by the qualities of Goodness, Darkness and Ignorance, pursue acts which have an end.
Sanskrit: आपन्ने तूत्तरां काष्ठां सूर्ये यो निधनं व्रजेत्। नक्षत्रे च मुहूर्ते च पुण्ये राजन् स पुण्यकृत्॥ अयोजयित्वा क्लेशेन जनं प्लाव्य च दुष्कृतम्। मृत्युनाऽऽत्मकृते नेह कर्म कृत्वाऽऽत्पशक्तिभिः॥
English: That man is considered as righteous who meets with dissolution when the Sun is in the northern declension, and at a time and under a constellation both of which are sacred and auspicious, He is righteous who, having purified himself of all sins and performed all his acts according to the best of his might and having abstained from giving pain to any man, meets with death when it comes.
Sanskrit: विषमुटबन्धनं दाहो दस्युहस्तात् तथा वधः। दंष्ट्रिभ्यश्च पशुभ्यश्च प्राकृतो वध उच्यते॥
English: The death that one meets with by taking poision, by hanging, by burning, at the hands of robbers and at the teeth of animals, is said to be an infamous one.
Sanskrit: न चैभिः पुण्यकर्माणो युज्यन्ते चाभिसंधिजैः। एवंविधैश्च बहुभिरपरैः प्राकृतैरपि॥
English: Those man who are righteous never meet with such or similar deaths even if they be afflicted with mental and physical diseases of the most painful sort.
Sanskrit: ऊर्ध्वं भित्त्वा प्रतिष्ठन्ते प्राणाः पुण्यवतां नृप। मध्यतो मध्यपुण्यानामधो दुष्कृतकर्मणाम्॥ रज्ञानतुल्यः पुरुषस्य राजन्। येनावृतः कुरुते सम्प्रयुक्तो घोराणि कर्माणि सुदारुणानि॥
English: The lives of the pious, O king, piercing through the Sun, ascend into the regions of Brahman. The lives of those who are both righteous and sinful rove in the middle regions. The lives of those who are sinful sink into the lowest depths. There is one only enemy (of man) and not another. That enemy is at one with Ignorance, O king. Overwhelmed by it, is led to perpetrate frightful and exceedingly cruel deeds.
Sanskrit: प्रबाधनार्थं श्रुतिधर्मयुक्तान्। वृद्धानुपास्य प्रभवेत यस्य। प्रयत्नसाध्यो हि स राजपुत्र प्रज्ञाशरेणोन्मथितः परैति॥
English: That enemy for resisting which one should display his energy waiting upon the aged according to the duties laid down in the Shrutis,-~-that enemy which cannot be Overcome except by steady endeavours,-meets with destruction, O king, only when it is crushed by the arrows of wisdom. One
Sanskrit: अधीत्य वेदं तपसा ब्रह्मचारी यज्ञाज्यशक्त्या संनिगृह्येह पञ्च। वनं गच्छेत् पुरुषो धर्मकामः श्रेयः स्थित्वा स्थापयित्वा स्ववंशम्॥
English: The man desirous of acquiring merit should at first study the Vedas and practise penances, becoming a Brahimacharin. He should next, becoming a householder, perform the usual Sacrifices. Establishing his race, he should then enter the forest, controlling his senses, and desirous of acquiring Liberation.
Sanskrit: उपभोगैरपि त्यक्तं नात्मानं सादयेन्नरः। चण्डालत्वेऽपि मानुष्यं सर्वथा तात शोभनम्॥
English: One should never emaciate himself by abstaining from every enjoyment. Of all births, that of a human being is preferable even if one has to become a Chandala.
Sanskrit: इयं हि योनिः प्रथमा यां प्राप्य जगतीपते। आत्मा वै शक्यते त्रातुं कर्मभिः शुभलक्षणैः॥
English: Indeed, O king, that order of birth (viz., humanity) is the foremost, since by becoming a human being one succeeds in rescuing his self by meritorious acts.
Sanskrit: कथं न विप्रणश्येम योनितोऽस्या इति प्रभो। कुर्वन्ति धर्मं मनुजा: श्रुतिप्रामाण्यदर्शनात्॥
English: Men always perform righteous acts, O lord, guided by the authority of the Shrutis, so that they may not deviate from the status of humanity.
Sanskrit: यो दुर्लभतरं प्राप्य मानुष्यं द्विषते नरः। धर्मावमन्ता कामात्मा भवेत्स खलु वञ्च्यते॥
English: That man who, having been born as a man that is so difficult of attainment, indulges in malice, disregards righteousness and gives way :o desire, is certainly betrayed by his desires.
Sanskrit: यस्तु प्रीतिपुरोगेन चक्षुषा तात पश्यति। दीपोपमानि भूतानि यावदर्थान्न पश्यति॥ सान्त्वेनानप्रदानेन प्रियवादेन चाप्युत। समदुःखसुखो भूत्वा स परत्र महीयते॥
English: That man who regards all creatures impartially guided by affection, considering them worthy of being cherished with loving, aid, who disregards all sorts of wealth, who offers them consolation, gives them food, addresses them in sweet words, and who rejoices in their happiness and grieves in their sorrows, has never to suffer misery in the next world.
Sanskrit: दानं त्यागः शोभना मूर्तिरद्भ्यो भूतप्लाव्यं तपसा वै शरीरम्। सरस्वतीनैमिषपुष्करेषु ये चाप्यन्ये पुण्यदेशाः पृथिव्याम्॥
English: Repairing to the Sarasvati, the Naimisha forest, the Pushkara lake, and the other sacred spots on Earth, one should make gifts, practise renunciation, render his aspect amiable, O king, and purify his body with baths and penances.
Sanskrit: गृहेषु येषामसवः पतन्ति तेषामथो निर्हरणं प्रशस्तम्। यानेन वै प्रापणं च श्मशाने शौचेन नूनं विधिना चैव दाहः॥
English: Those men who meet with death within their houses should have their bodies cremated. Their bodies bodies should should be be taken to the crematorium on cars and there they should be burnt according to the rites of purification that have been laid down in the scriptures,
Sanskrit: इष्टिः पुष्टिर्यजनं याजनं च दानं पुण्यानां कर्मणां च प्रयोगः। शक्त्या पित्र्यं यच्च किंचित् प्रशस्तं सर्वाण्यात्मार्थे मानवोऽयं करोति॥
English: Religious rites, beneficial ceremonies, the performance of sacrifices, officiation at the sacrifices of others, gifts, the doing of other meritorious deeds, the performance according to the best of his power, of all that has been ordained in in the case of his deceased ancestors,-all these one does for benefiting his own self.
Sanskrit: धर्मशास्त्राणि वेदाश्च षडङ्गानि नराधिप। श्रेयसोऽर्थे विधीयन्ते नरस्याक्लिष्टकर्मणः॥
English: O king! All the scriptures of righteousness and the Vedas with six angas proceed for the welfare of sinless one.
Sanskrit: भीष्म उवाच एतद् वै सर्वमाख्यातं मुनिना सुमहात्मना। विदेहराजाय पुरा श्रेयसोऽर्थे नराधिप॥
English: Bhishma continued All this was said by that great sage to the king of the Videhas, O king, in days of yore for his well-being.
Sanskrit: भीम उवाच पुनरेव तु पप्रच्छ जनको मिथिलाधिपः। पराशरं महात्मानं धर्मे परमनिश्चयम्॥
English: Daksha said Once again Janaka, the king of Mithila, asked the great Parashara gifted with certain knowledge regarding all duties.
Sanskrit: जनक उवाच किं श्रेयः का गतिर्ब्रह्मन् किं कृतं न विनश्यति। क्व गतो न निवर्तेत तन्मे ब्रूहि महामते॥
English: Janaka said What yields good? What is the best path (for living creatures)? What is that which being done is never destroyed? What is that spot going where one has not to return? Tell me all this, O you of great intelligence.
Sanskrit: पराशर उवाच असङ्ग श्रेयसो मूलं ज्ञानं चैव परा गतिः। चीर्णं तपो न प्रणश्येद्वापः क्षेत्रे न नश्यति॥
English: Parashara said Dissociation is the root of what is good. Knowledge is the greatest path. Penances practised are never destroyed. Gifts also, made to worthy persons, are not lost.
Sanskrit: छित्त्वाधर्ममयं पाशं यदा धर्मेऽभिरज्यते। दत्त्वाभयकृतं दानं तदा सिद्धिमवाप्नुते॥
English: When one, snapping the fetters of sin, begins to take pleasure in virtue, and when one makes that highest of all gifts, viz., the promise of all harmlessness to all creatures, then does one acquire success.
Sanskrit: यो ददाति सहस्राणि गवामश्वशतानि च। अभयं सर्वभूतेभ्यः सदा तमभिवर्तते॥
English: He who gives away thousands of kine and hundreds of horses, and who promises harmlessness to all creatures receives in return the promise of harmlessness from all.
Sanskrit: वसन् विषयमध्येऽपि न वसत्येव बुद्धिमान्। संवसत्येव दुर्बुदिरसत्सु विषयेष्वपि॥
English: One may live in the midst of all sorts or riches and cnjoyment, yet, if blessed with intelligence, one does not live in them; while he who is shorn of intelligence lives wholly in objects of enjoyment which unsubstantial.
Sanskrit: नाधर्मः श्लिष्यते प्राज्ञं पयः पुष्करपर्णवत्। अप्राज्ञमधिकं पापं श्लिष्यते जतुकाष्ठवत्॥
English: Sin cannot attach to a wise man as water cannot drench the leaves of the lotus. Sin sticks more firmly to him who is without attachment as lac and wood stick firmly to each other.
Sanskrit: नाधर्मः कारणापेक्षी कर्तारमभिमुञ्चति। कर्ता खलु यथाकालं ततः समभिपद्यते॥ न भिद्यन्ते कृतात्मान आत्मप्रत्ययदर्शिनः।
English: Sin, which cannot be dissipated except by endurance of its fruits, never leaves the doer. The doer, when the time comes, has to suffer the consequences thereof. They, however, who are of purified souls and who realise the cxistence of Brahma, are never afflicted by the fruits of their deeds. are even
Sanskrit: बुद्धिकर्मेन्द्रियाणां हि प्रमत्तो यो न बुद्ध्यते। शुभाशुभे प्रसक्तात्मा प्राप्नोति सुमहद् भयम्॥
English: Careless in about one's senses of knowledge and of action, one who is not conscious of his wicked deeds, and whose heart is attached to both good and bad, becomes afflicted with great fear.
Sanskrit: वीतरागो जितक्रोधः सम्यग् भवति यः सदा। विषये वर्तमानोऽपि न स पापेन युज्यते॥
English: One who at all times becomes entirely freed from attachments and who completely subdues the passion of anger, is never sullied by sin even if he lives in the enjoyment of worldly objects.
Sanskrit: मर्यादायां धर्मसेतुर्निबद्धो नैव सीदति। पुष्टस्रोत इवासक्तः स्फीतो भवति संचयः॥
English: As a dyke set across a river, if not washed away, makes the waters thereof to swell up, so the man who, without being attached to objects of pleasure, creates the dyke of virtue whose materials consist of the limitations set down in the scriptures, has never to wane away. On the other hand, his merits and penances, increase.
Sanskrit: यथा भानुगतं तेजो मणिः शुद्धः समाधिना। आदत्ते राजशार्दूल तथा योगः प्रवर्तते।॥
English: As the pure gem absorbs and attracts to itself, according to the natural law, the rays of the Sun, so, O foremost of kings, does Yoga proceed by help of rapt attention.
Sanskrit: यथा तिलानामिह पुष्पसंश्रयात् पृथक्पृथग्याति गुणोऽतिसौम्यताम्। तथा नराणां भुवि भावितात्मनां यथाऽऽश्रयं सत्त्वगुणः प्रवर्तते॥
English: As sesame seeds, for being always with sweet-scented flowers, become in respect of quality very sweet, so the quality of Goodness arises in men proportionate to the extent of their association with persons of purified souls.
Sanskrit: जहाति दारांश्च जहाति सम्पदः पदं च यानं विविधाश्च याः क्रिया:। स्तदास्य बुद्धिर्विषयेषु भिद्यते॥
English: When one becomes desirous of living in heaven, he abandons his wives and riches and rank and vehicles and various sorts of good deeds. indeed, when one gets such a bent of mind, his understanding is said to be dissociated from the objects of the senses.
Sanskrit: प्रसक्तबुद्धिर्विषयेषु यो नरो न बुध्यते ह्यात्महितं कथंचन। स सर्वभावानुगतेन चेतसा नृपाभिषेणेव झषो विकृष्यते॥
English: That man who, with understanding attached to the objects of the senses, becomes blind to what is for his real well-beings, is dragged by his heart which runs after all earthly objects, like a fish by the bait of meat.
Sanskrit: संघातवन्मर्त्यलोकः परस्परमपाश्रितः। कदलीगर्भनि:सारो नौरिवाप्सु निमज्जति॥
English: Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another. They are weak like the pith of the banana plant. They sink in the world's ocean like a boat.
Sanskrit: निश्चितो न चापि मृत्युः पुरुषं प्रतीक्षते। सदा हि धर्मस्य क्रियैव शोभना यदा नरो मृत्युमुखेऽभिवर्तते॥
English: There is no fixed time for the acquisition of virtue. Death waits for no man. When man is constantly running towards the jaws of Death, the doing of pious deeds is proper at all times.
Sanskrit: यथान्धः स्वगृहे युक्तो ह्यभ्यासादेव गच्छति। तथा युक्तेन मनसा प्राज्ञो गच्छति तां गतिम्॥
English: Like a blind man who, with attention, can move about his own house, the wise man, with mind fixed on Yoga, can proceed along the road.
Sanskrit: मरणं जन्मनि प्रोक्तं जन्म वै मरणाश्रितम्। अविद्वान् मोक्षधर्मेषु बद्धो भ्रमति चक्रवत्। न धर्मकाल: पुरुषस्य
English: It has been said that death originates from birth. Birth is subject to the control of death. One unacquainted with the course of the duties of Liberation revolves like a wheel between birth and death, unable to free himself from that fate.
Sanskrit: बुद्धिमार्गप्रयातस्य सुखं त्विह परत्र च॥ विस्तराः क्लेशसंयुक्ताः संक्षेपास्तु सुखावहाः। परार्थं विस्तराः सर्वे त्यागमात्महितं विदुः॥
English: One who walks along the road recommended by the understanding acquires happiness both in this world and the next. Many of them are fraught with misery; while the Few yield happiness. Fruits represented by Nescience form the Many. Renunciation yields the soul's happiness.
Sanskrit: यथा मृणालानुगतमाशु मुञ्चति कर्दमम्। तथाऽऽत्मा पुरुषस्येह मनसा परिमुच्यते॥
English: As the lotus stalk quickly leaves the mire attached to it, so the Soul can quickly renounce the mind.
Sanskrit: मनः प्रणयतेऽऽत्मानं स एनमभियुञ्जति। युक्तो यदा स भवति तदा तं पश्यते परम्॥
English: It is the mind that at first inclines the Soul to Yoga. The latter then merges the former into itself. When the Soul gains success in Yoga, it then sees itself invested with qualities.
Sanskrit: परार्थे वर्तमानस्तु स्वं कार्यं योऽभिमन्यते। इन्द्रियार्थेषु संयुक्तः स्वकार्यात् परिमुच्यते॥
English: Engaged amid the objects of the senses, one who considers such engagement to be his employment falls away from his true employment on account of such devotion to those objects.