pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: क्षौमं कार्पासिकं चापि मृगाजिनमथापि वा। सर्वं काषायरक्तं वा वासो वापि द्विजस्य ह॥
English: The raiment's of the twice-born man should be linen, or of cotton, or dear-skin, or a cloth that is entirely brown-red.
Sanskrit: मेखला च भवेन्मौजी जटी नित्योदकस्तथा। यज्ञोपवीती स्वाध्यायी अलुब्धो नियतव्रतः॥
English: There should also be a girdle made of Munja-grass. He should bear maited locks on head, and should perform his ablutions daily. He should bear the sacred thread, study the scriptures, divest himself of cupidity, and be steady in the observance of vows.
Sanskrit: पूताभिश्च तथैवाद्भिः सदा दैवततर्पणम्। भावेन नियतः कुर्वन् ब्रह्मचारी प्रशस्यते॥
English: He should also satisfy the celestials with oblations of pure water, his mind being controlled the while, Such a Brahmacharin is worthy of being lauded.
Sanskrit: एवं युक्तो जयेल्लोकान् वानप्रस्थो जितेन्द्रियः। न संसरति जातीषु परमं स्थानमाश्रितः॥
English: With vital seed drawn up and mind concentrated, one who is thus devoted, succeeds in conquering the celestial region. Having attained to the Highest seat, he has not to return to birth.
Sanskrit: संस्कृत: सर्वसंस्कारैस्तथैव ब्रह्मचर्यवान्। ग्रामान्निष्क्रम्य चारण्ये मुनिः प्रव्रजितो वसेत्॥
English: Cleansed by all purificatory rites and having lived as a Brahmacharin, one should next go out of his village and next live as an ascetic in the forest, having cast off (all attachments).
Sanskrit: चर्मवल्कलसंवासी सायं प्रातरुपस्पृशेत्। अरण्यगोचरो नित्यं न ग्रामं प्रविशेत् पुनः॥
English: Clad in animal skins or barks of trees, he should perform his ablutions morning and evening. Always living within the forest, he should never return to an inhabited placc.
Sanskrit: अर्चयन्नतिथीन् काले दद्याच्चापि प्रतिश्रयम्। फलपत्रावरैर्मूलैः श्यामाकेन च वर्तयन्॥
English: Honouring guests when they come, he should give them shelter, and himself live upon fruits and leaves and common roots, and Shyamaka.
Sanskrit: प्रवृत्तमुदकं वायुं सर्वं वानेयमाश्रयेत्। प्राश्चीयादानुपूर्वेण यथादीक्षमतन्द्रितः॥
English: He should, without being idle, live on such water as he gets, and air, and all forest products. He should live upon these, in due order, according to the regulations of his initiation.
Sanskrit: समूलफलभिक्षाभिरर्चेदतिथिमागतम्। यद्भक्ष्यं स्यात्ततो दद्याद्भिक्षां नित्यमतन्द्रितः॥
English: He should honour the guest that comes to him with alms of fruits and roots. He should then, without idleness, always give whatever other food he may have.
Sanskrit: देवतातिथिपूर्वं च सदा प्राश्नीत वाग्यतः। अस्पर्धितमनाश्चैव लघ्वाशी देवताश्रयः॥
English: Controlling speech the while, he should eat after satisfying celestials and guests. His mind should be shorn of envy. He should eat little, and depend always on the celestials.
Sanskrit: दान्तो मैत्रः क्षमायुक्तः केशाश्मश्रु च धारयन्। जुह्वन् स्वाध्यायशीलश्च सत्यधर्मपरायणः॥
English: Self-controlled, practising universal mercy, and endued with forgiveness, he should wear both beard and hair. Celebrating sacrifices and devoting himself to the study of the scriptures, he should be steady in the observance of the duty of truth.
Sanskrit: शुचिदेहः सदा दक्षो वननित्यः समाहितः। एवं युक्तो जयेत् स्वर्ग वानप्रस्थो जितेन्द्रियः॥
English: With body always in a state of purity, gifted with cleverness, ever living in the forest, with concentrated mind, and senses, in subjection, a hermit, thus devoting himself, would conquer the celestial region.
Sanskrit: गृहस्थो ब्रह्मचारी च वानप्रस्थोऽथ वा पुनः। च इच्छेन्मोक्षमास्थातुमुत्तमा वृत्तिमाश्रयेत्॥
English: A houscholder, or Brahmacharin, or forestrecluse, who would wise to acquire Liberation, should have recourses to that which has been called the best course of conduct.
Sanskrit: अभयं सर्वभूतेभ्यो दत्त्वा नैष्कर्म्यमाचरेत्। सर्वभूतसुखो मैत्र: सर्वेन्द्रिययतो मुनिः॥
English: Having granted to all creatures the pledge of utter abstention from harm, he should renounce all action, he should contribute to the happiness of all creatures, practise universal friendliness, govern all his senses, and be an ascetic.
Sanskrit: अयाचितमसंक्लृप्तमुपपन्नं यदृच्छया। कृत्वा प्राढे चरेद् भैक्ष्यं विधूमे भुक्तवज्जने॥
English: Living upon food got without asking and without trouble, and that has come to him spontaneously, he should make a fire. He should go for alins to a place whence smoke has ceased to curl up and where all the inhabitants have already eaten.
Sanskrit: वृत्ते शरावसम्पाते भक्ष्यं लिप्सेत मोक्षवित्। लाभेन च न हृष्येत नालाभे विमना भवेत्। न चातिभिक्षां भिक्षेत केवलं प्राणयात्रिकः॥
English: The person who is conversant with the conduct that leads to Liberation should seek for alms after the vessels (used in coO king) have been washed. He should never rejoice when he gets anything, and never lose heart if he gets nothing.
Sanskrit: यात्रार्थी कालपाकाङ्क्षश्चरेद् भैक्ष्यं समाहितः। लाभं साधारणं नेच्छेन्न भुञ्जीताभिपूजितः॥
English: Seeking just what is necessary for supporting life, he should, with concentrated mind, go about for alms, waiting for the proper time. He should not wish for carnings in common with others, nor eat when honoured.
Sanskrit: अभिपूजितलाभाद्धि विजुगुप्सेत भिक्षुकः। भुक्तान्यन्नानि तिक्तानि कषायकटुकानि च॥
English: The mendicant should conceal himself for avoiding gifts with honour. While eating, he should not eat the resident of another's dish, nor such food as is bitter, or astringent, or pungent.
Sanskrit: नास्वादयीत भुञ्जानो रसांश्च मधुरांस्तथा। यात्रामात्रं च भुञ्जीत केवलं प्राणधारणम्॥
English: He should not also eat such kinds of food as have a sweet taste. He should eat only so inuch as is necessary to keep him alive.
Sanskrit: असंरोधेन भूतानां वृत्तिं लिप्सेत मोक्षवित्। न चान्यमन्नं लिप्सेत भिक्षमाणः कथंचन॥ न संनिकाशयेद् धर्म विविक्ते चारजाश्चरेत्। शून्यागारमरण्यं वा वृक्षमूलं नदी तथा॥ प्रतिश्रयार्थ सेवेत पार्वती वा पुनर्गुहाम्। ग्रामैकरात्रिको ग्रीष्मे वर्षास्वेकत्र वा वसेत्॥
English: The person conversant with Liberation should obtain his livelihood without obstructing any creature. In his rounds of mendicancy he should never follow another. He should never show his piety; he should move about in a solitary place, freed from passion. As should, resort to either an empty house, or a forest, or the foot of some tree, or a river, or a mountain cave for shelter. In summer he should pass only one night in an inhabited place; in the rainy season he may live in one place.
Sanskrit: अध्वा सूर्येण निर्दिष्टः कीटवच्च चरेन्महीम्। दयार्थं चैव भूतानां समीक्ष्य पृथिवीं चरेत्॥
English: He should move about the world like a worm, having his path pointed out by the Sun. From mercy for creatures, he should walk on the Earth with his eyes directed towards it.
Sanskrit: संचयांश्च न कुर्वीत स्नेहवासं च वर्जयेत्। पूताभिरद्भिर्नित्यं वै कार्यं कुर्वीत मोक्षवित्॥
English: He should never amass riches and should avoid living with friends. The man knowing Liberation should every day do all his acts with pure water.
Sanskrit: उपस्पृशेदुद्भूताभिरद्धिश्च पुरुषः सदा। अहिंसा ब्रह्मचर्यं च सत्यमार्जवमेव च॥ अक्रोधश्चानसूया च दमो नित्यमपैशुनम्। अष्टस्वेतेषु युक्तः स्याद् व्रतेषु नियतेन्द्रियः॥
English: Such a man should always perform his ablutions with water that has been taken (from the river or tank). Abstention from harm, celibacy, truth, simplicity, freedom, from anger, freedom from decrying others, selfcontrol and habitual freedom from back-biting; with senses controlled, he should steadily pursue these eight vows.
Sanskrit: अपापमशठं वृत्तमजिह्यं नित्यमाचरेत्। जोषयेत सदा भोज्यं ग्रासमागतमस्पृहः॥
English: He should always practise a sinless mode of conduct, which is not deceptive or crooked. Shorn of attachments he should always make one who comes as a guest eat (at least) a morsel of food.
Sanskrit: यात्रामात्रं च भुञ्जीत केवलं प्राणयात्रिकम्। धर्मलब्धमथाश्नीयान्न काममनुवर्तयेत्॥
English: He should cat just enough for livelihood, the maintenance of life. He should eat only such food as has been got by fair means, and should not pursue the dictates of desire.
Sanskrit: ग्रासादाच्छादनादन्यन्न गृह्णीयात् कथंचन। यावदाहारयेत् तावत् प्रतिगृह्णीत नाधिकम्॥
English: He should never accept any other thing than food and clothing only. He should, again, accept only as much as he can cat and nothing more.
Sanskrit: परेभ्यो न प्रतिग्राह्यं न च देयं कदाचन। दैन्यभावाच्च भूतानां संविभज्य सदा बुधः॥
English: He should not be induced to accept gifts from others, nor should he make gifts to others. Owing to the helplessness of creatures, the wise man should always share with others.
Sanskrit: नाददीत परस्वानि न गृह्णीयादयाचितः। न किंचिद्विविषयं भुक्त्वा स्पृहयेत्तस्य वै पुनः॥
English: He should not misappropriate others belongings, nor should he take anything without being asked. He should not, having enjoyed anything, become so attached to it as to seek for it once more.
Sanskrit: मृदमापस्तथान्नानि पत्रपुष्पफलानि च। असंवृतानि गृह्णीयात् प्रवृत्तानि च कार्यवान्॥
English: One should take only earth, water, pebbles, leaves, flowers, and fruits, which are not owned by any body, as they come, when one wishes to do any act.
Sanskrit: न शिल्पजीविकां जीवेद्धिरण्यं नोत कामयेत्। न द्वेष्टा नोपदेष्टा च भवेच्च निरुपस्कृतः॥
English: One should not live by the occupation of an artisan, nor should he covet gold. One should not hate, nor teach; nor should one have any belongings.
Sanskrit: श्रद्धापूतानि भुञ्जीत निमित्तानि च वर्जयेत्। सुधावृत्तिरसक्तश्च सर्वभूतैरसंविदम्॥
English: One should eat only what is consecrated by faith, One should shun controversies. One should follow the nectarine course of conduct. One should never be attached to anything, and should never enter into relations of intimacy with any creature.
Sanskrit: आशीर्युक्तानि सर्वाणि हिंसायुक्तानि यानि च। लोकसंग्रहधर्मं च नैव कुर्यान्न कारयेत्॥
English: One should not perform, nor cause to perform, any such deed as involves expectation of fruit or destruction of life or the hoarding of riches or articles.
Sanskrit: सर्वभावानतिक्रम्य लघुमात्रः परिव्रजेत्। समः सर्वेषु भूतेषु स्थावरेषु चरेषु च॥
English: Rejecting all objects, content with a very little, one should move about (homeless), pursuing an equal conduct towards all creatures mobile and immobile.
Sanskrit: परं नोद्वजयेत् काचिन्न च कस्यचिदुद्विजेत्। विश्वास्यः सर्वभूतानामग्र्यो मोक्षविदुच्यते॥
English: One should never annoy another being; nor should one be annoyed with another. He who is trusted by all crcatures is considered as the foremost of those persons who understand Liberation.
Sanskrit: अनागतं च न ध्यायेन्नातीतमनुचिन्तयेत्। वर्तमानमुपेक्षेत कालाकाक्षी समाहितः॥
English: One should not think of the past nor feel anxious about the future. One should disregard the present, biding time, with fixed mind.
Sanskrit: न चक्षुषा न मनसा न वाचा दूषयेत् क्वचित्। न प्रत्यक्षं परोक्षं वा किंचिद् दुष्टं समाचरेत्॥
English: One should never defile anything by eye, mind, or speech. Nor should one do anything which is wrong, openly or in secret.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रियाण्युपसंहृत्य कूर्मोऽङ्गानीव सर्वशः। क्षीणेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिर्निरीहः सर्वतत्त्ववित्॥
English: Withdrawing his senses like the tortoise withdrawing its limbs, one should govern his senses and mind, cultivate a thoroughly peaceful understanding, and seek to master every subject.
Sanskrit: निर्द्वन्द्वो निर्नमस्कारो निःस्वाहाकार एव च। निर्ममो निरहङ्कारो निर्योगक्षेम आत्मवान्॥
English: Freed from all pairs of opposites, never bending his head in respect, abstaining from the rites requiring the utterance of Svaha, one should be free from mineness, and egoism. with purified soul, one should never seek to acquire what one has not and protect what one has.
Sanskrit: निराशीर्निर्गुणः शान्तो निरासक्तो निराश्रयः। आत्मसङ्गी च तत्त्वज्ञो मुच्यते नात्र संशयः॥
English: Free from expectations shorn of qualities, endued with tranquility, one should be free from all attachments and should depend on one. Attached to one's Own self and understanding all subjects, one becomes, forsooth, liberated.
Sanskrit: अपादपाणिपृष्ठं तदशिरस्कमनूदरम्। प्रहीणगुणकर्माणं केवलं विमलं स्थिरम्॥ अगन्धमरसस्पर्शमरूपाशब्दमेव च। अनुगम्यमनासक्तममांसमपि चैव यत्॥ निश्चिन्तमव्ययं दिव्यं गृहस्थमपि सर्वदा। सर्वभूतस्थमात्मानं ये पश्यन्ति न ते मृताः॥
English: Those who perceive the self, which is without hands and feet and back which is without head and without stomach, which is free from the action of all qualities, which is absolute, untainted, and stable, which is without smell, without taste and touch, without colour, and without sound, which is to be comprehended (by close study), which is unattached, which is without flesh, which is free from anxiety, unfading, and divine, and lastly which though living in a house resides in all creatures, succeed in escaping death.
Sanskrit: न तत्र क्रमते बुद्धिर्नेन्द्रियाणि न देवताः। वेदा यज्ञाच लोकाश्च न तपो न व्रतानि च।॥
English: There the understanding reaches not nor the senses, nor the celestials, nor the Vedas nor sacrifices, nor the regions (of superior bliss), nor penance nor vows.
Sanskrit: यत्र ज्ञानवतां प्राप्तिरलिङ्गग्रहणा स्मृता। तस्मादलिधर्मज्ञो धर्मतत्त्वमुपाचरेत्॥
English: The attainment to it by those who are endued with knowledge is said to be without comprehension of symbol. Hence the man who knows the properties of that which is shorn of symbols, should practise the truths of piety.
Sanskrit: गूढधर्माश्रितो विद्वान् विज्ञानचरितं चरेत्। अमूढो मूढरूपेण चरेद् धर्ममदूषयन्॥
English: The learned man, living as a householder, should adopt that conduct which is conformable to true knowledge. Though undeluded, he should practise piety like one that is deluded, without finding fault without it.
Sanskrit: यथैनमवमन्येरन् परे सततमेव हि। यथावृत्तश्चरेच्छान्तः सतां धर्मानकुत्सयन्॥
English: Without finding fault with the practices of the good, he should act in such a way for practising piety as may induce other to always disregard him.
Sanskrit: य एवं वृत्तसम्पन्नः स मुनिः श्रेष्ठ उच्यते। इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थांश्च महाभूतानि पञ्च च॥ मनो बुद्धिरहंकारमव्यक्तं पुरुषं तथा। एतत् सर्वं प्रसंख्याय यथावत् तत्त्वनिश्चयात्॥ ततः स्वर्गमवाप्नोति विमुक्तः सर्वबन्धनैः। एतावदन्तवेलायां परिसंख्याय तत्त्ववित्॥ ध्यायेदेकान्तमास्थाय मुच्यतेऽथ निराश्रयः। निर्मुक्तः सर्वसङ्गेभ्यो वायुराकाशगो यथा॥ क्षीणकेशो निरातङ्गस्तथेदं प्राप्नुयात् परम्॥
English: That man who is gifted with such a conduct is said to be the foremost of ascetics. The senses, the objects of the senses, the (five) great elements, mind, understanding, egoism, the unmanifest. Purusha also, after comprehending these duly with the help of correct inferences, one attains to the celestial region, released from all fetters. One conversant with the truth, understanding these at the time of the termination of his life, should mediate, exclusively resting on one point. Then, depending on none, none, one acquires Liberation. Freed from all attachments, like the wind in space, with his hoarded up means exhausted, without distress of any sort, he attains to the highest goal.
Sanskrit: ब्रह्मोवाच संन्यासं तप इत्याहुवृद्धा निश्चितवादिनः। ब्राह्मणा ब्रह्मयोनिस्था ज्ञानं ब्रह्म परं विदुः॥
English: Brahman said The ancients who always used to speak truth, say that Renunciation is penance. Brahmanas, living in that which has Brahma for its origin understand Knowledge to be high Brahma.
Sanskrit: अतिदूरात्मकं ब्रह्म वेदविद्याव्यपाश्रयम्। निर्द्वन्द्व निर्गुणं नित्यमचिन्त्यगुणमुत्तमम्॥
English: Brahma is very far off, and its attainment depends upon a knowledge of the Vedas. It is free from all pairs of opposites, it is shorn of all qualities; it is eternal; it is gifted with unthinkable qualities; it is supreme.
Sanskrit: ज्ञानेन तपसा चैव धीराः पश्यन्ति तत् परम्। निर्णिक्तमनसः पूता व्युत्क्रान्तरजसोऽमला:॥
English: It is by knowledge and penance that those gifted with wisdom see that which is the highest. Indeed, they who are of unsullied minds, who are purged of every sin, and who have transcended all passion and darkness (succeed in seeing it.)
Sanskrit: तपसा क्षेममध्वानं गच्छन्ति परमेश्वरम्। संन्यासनिरता नित्यं ये च ब्रह्मविदो जनाः॥
English: They who are always given to renunciation, and who are conversant with the Vedas, succeed in attaining to the supreme Lord who is at one with the path of happiness and peace, by the help of penance.
Sanskrit: तपः प्रदीप इत्याहुराचारो धर्मसाधकः। ज्ञानं वै परमं विद्यात् संन्यासं नृप उत्तमम्॥
English: Penance, it has been said, is light. Conduct leads to piety. Knowledge is said to be the highest. Renunciation is the best penance.
Sanskrit: यस्तु वेद निराधारं ज्ञानं नत्त्वविनिश्चयात्। सर्वभूनस्थमात्मानं स सर्वगतिरिष्यते॥
English: He who understands self through accurate determination of all subjects, undisturbed, which is at one with Knowledge, and which lives in all principles, succeeds in going everywhere.
Sanskrit: यो विद्वान् सहवासं च विवासं चैव पश्यति। तथैवैकत्वनानात्वे स दुःखात् प्रतिमुच्यते॥
English: That learned man who sees association and dissociation, and unity in diversity, is freed from misery.
Sanskrit: यो न कामयते किंचिन्न किंचिदवमन्यते। इहलोकस्थ एवैष ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते॥
English: He who never desires for anything, who despises nothing, becomes eligible, even when living in this world, for assimilation with Brahma.
Sanskrit: प्रधानगुणतत्त्वज्ञः सर्वभूतप्रधानवित्। निर्ममो निरहङ्कारो मुच्यते नात्र संशयः॥
English: He who is conversant with the truths about qualities of Greatness, and understands the Pradhana as existing in all principles, who is free from mineness and egoism, forsooth, becomes liberated.
Sanskrit: निर्द्वन्द्वो निर्नमस्कारो नि:स्वधाकार एव च। निर्गुणं नित्यमद्वन्द्वं प्रशमेनैव गच्छति॥
English: He who is freed from all pairs of opposites, who does not bend his head to any body, who has got over the rites of Svaha, succeeds by the help of tranquility alone in attaining to that which is free from pairs of opposites, which is eternal, and which is shom of qualities.
Sanskrit: हित्वा गुणमयं सर्वं कर्म जन्तुः शुभाशुभम्। उभे सत्यानृते हित्वा मुच्यते नात्र संशयः॥
English: Renouncing all action, good or bad, developed from qualities, and casting off both truth and falschood, a creature, forsooth, becomes liberated.
Sanskrit: अव्यक्तयोनिप्रभवो बुद्धिस्कन्धमयो महान्। महाहंकारविटप इन्द्रियाङ्करकोटरः॥ महाभूतविशालश्च विशेषयति शाखिनः। सदापत्रः सदापुष्पः शुभाशुभफलोदयः॥ आजीव्यः सर्वभूतानां ब्रह्मवृक्षः सनातनः। एनं छित्त्वा च भित्त्वा च तत्त्वज्ञानासिना बुधः॥ हित्वा सङ्गमयान् पाशान् मृत्युजन्मजरोदयान्। निर्ममो निरहङ्कारो मुच्यते नात्र संशयः॥
English: Having the unmanifest for the seed of its origin, with the understanding for its trunk, with the great principle of egoism for its collection of boughs, with the senses for the cavities of its little sprouts, with the (five) great elements for its large branches, the objects of the senses for this smaller branches, with leaves that are ever present, with flowers that always embellish it, and with fruits both agreeable and disagreeable always produced, is the eternal tree of Brahma which forins the support of all creatures. Cutting and piercing that tree with knowledge of truth as the sword, the wise man, abandoning the fetters which are made of attachment and which cause birth, decrepitude, and death, and freeing himself from mineness and egoism, forsooth, becomes liberated.
Sanskrit: द्वाविमौ पक्षिणौ नित्यौ संक्षेपौ चाप्यचेतनी। एताभ्यां तु परो योऽयश्चेतनावान् स उच्यते॥
English: These are the two birds, which are immutable, which are friends, and which should be known as unintelligent. That other who is different from these two is called the Intelligent.
Sanskrit: अचेतनः सत्त्वसंख्याविमुक्तः सत्त्वात् परं चेतयतेऽन्तरात्मा। र्गुणातिगो मुच्यते सर्वपापैः॥
English: When the inner self, which is shorn of knowledge of nature, which is (as it were) unintelligent, becomes conversant with that which is above nature, then, understanding the Kshetra, and gifted with an intelligence that is above all qualities and apprehends everything, becoming released from all sins.
Sanskrit: केचिद् ब्रह्ममयं वृक्षं केचिद् ब्रह्मवनं महत्। केचित्तु ब्रह्म चाव्यक्त केचित् परमनामयम्।
English: Some consider Brahman as a tree. Some consider Brahma as a great forest. Some consider Brahina as unmanifest. Some consider it as transcendent and freed from every distress.
Sanskrit: मन्यन्ते सर्वमप्येतदव्यक्तप्रभवाव्ययम्॥ उच्छ्वासमात्रमपि चेद् योऽन्तकाले समो भवेत्। आत्मानमुपसङ्गम्य सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते॥ निमेषमात्रमपि चेत् संयम्यात्मानमात्मनि। गच्छत्यात्मप्रसादेन विदुषां प्राप्तिमव्ययाम्॥ प्राणायामैरथ प्राणान् संयम्य स पुनः पुनः। दशद्वादशभिर्वापि चतुर्विंशात् परं ततः॥
English: They think that all this is produced from and absorbed into the unmanifest. He who, even for the short space of time covered by a single breath, when his end comes, becomes equable, attaining to the self, fits himself for immortality. Controlling the self in the self, even for the space of a wink, one goes, through the tranquility of the self, to that which forms the endless acquisition of those that are endued with knowledge. Restraining the vital airs again and again by controlling them according to the method called Pranayama (suppression of vital airs), by the ten or the twelve, he attains to that which is beyond the four and twenty.
Sanskrit: एवं पूर्वं प्रसन्नात्मा लभते यद् यदिच्छति। अव्यक्तात् सत्त्वमुद्रिक्तममृतत्वाय कल्पते॥ सत्त्वात् परतरं नान्यत् प्रशंसन्तीह तद्विदः।
English: Thus having first acquired a tranquil soul, one attains to the fruition of all his desires. When the quality of Goodness predominates in what originates from the Unmanifest, it becomes fit for immortality. They who are conversant with Goodness speak highly of it, saying that there is nothing superior to Goodness.
Sanskrit: अनुमानाद् विजानीमः पुरुषं सत्त्वसंश्रयम्। न शक्यमन्यथा गन्तुं पुरुषं द्विजसत्तमाः॥
English: By inference we know that the Purusha is dependent on Goodness. O best of twice-born ones, it is impossible to attain to Purusha by any other means.
Sanskrit: क्षमा धृतिरहिंसा च समता सत्यमार्जवम्। ज्ञानं त्यागोऽथ संन्यासः सात्त्विकं वृत्तमिष्यते॥
English: Forgiveness, courage, abstention abstention from injury, equability, truth, sincerity, knowledge, gift, and renunciation, are said to be the marks of that course of conduct which arises out of Goodness.
Sanskrit: एतेनैवानुमानेन मन्यन्ते वै मनीषिणः। सत्त्वं च पुरुषश्चैव तत्र नास्ति विचारणा॥
English: It is by this inference that the wise believe in the oneness of Purusha and Goodness. There is no doubt in this.
Sanskrit: आहुरेके च विद्वांसो ये ज्ञानपरिनिष्ठिताः। क्षेत्रज्ञसत्त्वयोरैक्यमित्येतन्नोपपद्यते॥
English: Some learned men that are devoted to knowledge hold that Kshetrajna and Nature are one. This, however, is not correct.
Sanskrit: पृथग्भूतं ततः सत्त्वमित्येतदविचारितम्। पृथग्भावश्च विज्ञेयः सहजश्चापि तत्त्वतः॥
English: If it said that Nature is different from Purusha, that also will indicate a want of consideration.
Sanskrit: तथैवैकत्वनानात्वमिष्यते विदुषां नयः। मशकोदुम्बरे चैक्यं पृथक्त्वमपि दृश्यते॥
English: Distinction and association should be truly known. Unity and diversity are likewise laid down. That is the doctrine of the learned. Even both unity and diversity are seen in the gnat and Udumbara.
Sanskrit: मत्स्यो यथान्यः स्यादप्सु सम्प्रयोगस्तथा तयोः। सम्बन्धस्तोयबिन्दूनां पण कोकनदस्य च॥
English: As a fish in water is different from it, so is the relation of the two (viz., Purusha and Nature). Indeed, their relation is like that of water drops on the leaf of the lotus,
Sanskrit: गुरुरुवाच इत्युक्तवन्तस्ते विप्रास्तदा लोकपितामहम्। पुनः संशयमापना: पप्रच्छुर्मुनिसत्तमाः॥
English: The Preceptor said, Thus addressed, those learned Brahmanas, who were the foremost of men, felt some doubts and (therefore) they once questioned the Grandfather. more
Sanskrit: ऋषय ऊचुः को वा स्विदिह धर्माणामनुष्ठेयतमो मतः। व्याहतामिव पश्यामो धर्मस्य विविधां गतिम्॥
English: The Rishis said Which among the duties is considered to be the most worthy of being performed? The various modes of duty, we sec, are contradictory.
Sanskrit: ऊर्ध्वं देहाद् वदन्त्येके नैतदस्तीति चापरे। केचित् संशयितं सर्वं नि:संशयमथापरे॥
English: Some say that it continues after the body is destroyed). Others say that it does not exist. Some say that everything is doubtful. Others have no doubts.
Sanskrit: अनित्यं नित्यमित्येके नास्त्यस्तीत्यपि चापरे। एकरूपं द्विधेत्येके व्यामिश्रमिति चापरे॥
English: Some say that the eternal (principle) is not eternal. Some say that it exists, and some that it exists not. Some say it is of one form, or twofold, and others that it is mixed.