pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: कर्मभिश्चिन्तितो लोको गत्यां गत्यां पृथग्विधः। तस्मात् कर्माणि नित्यानि लोभान्मोक्षं यियासति॥ नेहधर्मानृशंस्याभ्यां च क्षान्त्या नार्जवेन च। पुरुषः श्रियमाप्नोति न घृणित्वेन कर्हिचित्॥
English: By actions men are placed in different situations of life; consequences of action are inevitable, from ignorance people desire for the liberation from action. A man does not even attain prosperity in this world by virtue, gentleness, forgiveness, straight-forwardness and fear of censure.
Sanskrit: त्वां च व्यसनमभ्यागादिदं भारत दुःसहम्। यत् त्वं नार्हसि नापीमे भ्रातरस्ते महौजसः॥
English: Or else, O descendant of Bharata, this unbearable misfortune would not have befallen you, who are so unworthy of it and your brothers of great energy.
Sanskrit: न हि तेऽध्यगमञ्जानु तदानीं नाद्य भारत। धर्मात् प्रियतरं किंचिदपि चेज्जीवितादिह॥
English: Neither then, nor even now, O descendant of Bharata, has anything appeared to you dearer than virtue, which is dearer to you even than your life.
Sanskrit: धर्मार्थमेव ते राज्यधर्मार्थं जीवितं च ते। ब्राह्मणा गुरुवश्चैव जानन्त्यपि च देवताः॥
English: That your kingdom is for virtue and your life even is for virtue, is known by Brahmanas, superiors and even celestials.
Sanskrit: भीमसेनार्जुनौ चोभौ माद्रेयौ च मया सह। त्यजेस्त्वमिति मे बुद्धिर्न तुधर्मं परित्यजेः॥
English: You can abandon Bhimasena, Arjuna these twin sons of Madri along with myself, I think, but you can never renounce virtue.
Sanskrit: राजानंधर्मगोप्तारंधर्मो रक्षति रक्षितः। इति में श्रुतमार्याणां त्वां तु मन्ये न रक्षति॥
English: I have heard from elders that a king protects virtue and virtue in return protects him-but methinks it does not protect you.
Sanskrit: अनन्या हि नरव्याघ्र नित्यदाधर्ममेव ते। बुद्धिः सततमन्वेतिच्छायेव पुरुषं निजा॥
English: O best of men, like a shadow following a man, you with a singleness of purpose always follow virtue.
Sanskrit: नावमंस्था हि सदृशान् नावराञ्छ्रेयसः कुतः। अवाप्य पृथिवीं कृत्स्नां न ते शृङ्गमवर्धत॥
English: You have never disregarded your equals, inferiors and superiors; obtaining even the entire universe your pride never increased.
Sanskrit: स्वाहाकारैः स्वधाभिश्च पुजाभिरपि च द्विजान्। दैवतानि पितॄश्चैव सततं पार्थ सेवसे।॥
English: O son of Pritha, with Yvahas and Svaddhas and other forms of worship you ever adore the Brahmanas, the celestials and the Pitris.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणाः सर्वकामैस्ते सततं पार्थ तर्पिताः। यतयो मोक्षिणश्चैव गृहस्थाश्चैव भारत॥ भुञ्जते रुक्मपात्रीभिर्यत्राहं परिचारिका। आरण्यकेभ्यो लौहानि भाजनानि प्रयच्छसि। नादेयं ब्राह्मणेभ्यस्ते गृहे किंचन विद्यते॥
English: O son of Pritha, you have always pleased the Brahmanas by granting all their desires; the Yatis, the ascetics, the householder ascetics, have always been fed by you on golden plates where (myself) have distributed food. You always give food and gold to Vanaprasthas; there is nothing in your house which you cannot bestow upon the Brahmanas.
Sanskrit: यदिदं वैश्वदेवं ते शान्तये क्रियते गृहे। तद् दत्त्वातिथिभूतेभ्यो राजञ्छिष्टेन जीवसि॥
English: Having distributed duly, O king, all to the guests in the Vishvadeva sacrifice that is solemnized in your house for your peace you live upon what remains.
Sanskrit: इष्टयः पशुबन्धाश्च काम्यनैमित्तिकाश्च ये। वर्तन्ते पाकयज्ञाश्च यज्ञकर्म च नित्यदा॥
English: Ishtis, Pashubandhas, sacrifice for obtaining the gratification of desires and ordinary household ceremonies, Paka sacrifices and various other rites are daily performed in your house.
Sanskrit: अस्मिन्नपि महारण्ये विजने दस्युसेविते। राष्ट्रादपेत्य वसतोधर्म स्तेनावसीदति॥
English: Even in this huge solitary forest frequented by robbers, living in banishment, deprived of your kingdom your virtue has suffered no decrease.
Sanskrit: अश्वमेधो राजसूयः पुण्डरीकोऽथ गोसवः। एतैरपि महायज्ञैरिष्टं ते भूरिदक्षिणैः॥
English: The Ashvamedha, the Rajasuya, Pundarika, the Gosava-all these great sacrifices requiring large gifts have been celebrated by you.
Sanskrit: राजन् परीतया बुद्ध्या विषमेऽक्षपराजये। राज्यं वसून्यायुधानि भ्रातृन् मां चासि निर्जितः॥
English: O king, by your perverse understanding, in your defeat at the gambling match you lost your kingdom, wealth, weapons your brothers and even myself.
Sanskrit: ऋजोर्मदोर्वदान्यस्य ह्रीमतः सत्यवादिनः। कथमक्षव्यसनजा बुद्धिरापतिता तव॥
English: How could your mind, siinple, gentle, liberal, modest and truthful as you are, be drawn to the vice of gambling?
Sanskrit: अतीव मोहमायाति मनश्च परिभूयते। निशाम्य ते दुःखमिदमिमां चापदमीदृशीम्॥
English: Beholding this your calamity and misfortune my sense is bewildered and mind overwhelmed.
Sanskrit: अत्राप्युदाहरन्तीममितिहासं पुरातनम्। ईश्वरस्य वशे लोकास्तिष्ठन्ते नात्यनो यथा॥
English: I shall cite here an old historical incident as an illustration that men are subject to the will of Providence and not to themselves.
Sanskrit: धातैव खलु भूतानां सुखदुःखे प्रियाप्रिये। दधाति सर्वमीशानः पुरस्ताच्छुक्रमुच्चरन्॥
English: The Lord Ishana ordains beforehand, with reference to weal and woe, happiness and misery, of all creatures like a seed.
Sanskrit: यथा दारुमयी योषा नरवीर समाहिता। ईरयत्यङ्गमङ्गानि तथा राजनिमा: प्रजाः॥
English: O hero among men, O king, as a wooden figure is made to move its limbs by the wirepuller so are all these creatures (made to act by the lord.)
Sanskrit: आकाश इव भूतानि व्याप्य सर्वाणि भारत। ईश्वरो विदधातीह कल्याणं यच्च पापकम्॥
English: O descendant of Bharata, pervading all creatures, like ethereal space the Providence ordains its happiness or misery.
Sanskrit: शकुनिस्तन्तुबद्धो वा नियतोऽयमनीश्वरः। ईश्वरस्य वशे तिष्ठेन्नान्येषां नात्मनः प्रभुः॥
English: Like a bird tied with a string all creatures depend upon God; they all live in dependence upon God not upon others; nor are they their own masters.
Sanskrit: मणिः सूत्र इव प्रोतो नस्योत इव गोवृषः। स्रोतसो मध्यमापन्नः कूलाद् वृक्ष इव च्युतः॥ धातुरादेशमन्वेति तन्मयो हि तदर्पणः। आत्माधीनो मनुष्योऽयं कालं भजति कंचन॥
English: Like a pearl set on a string, a bull tied by a rope passing through its nose or a tree fallen from the bank into the middle of a river. All creatures follow the ordinances of the Creator for they are identical with Him and live in Him; they are not subject to themselves and cannot pass an hour independently.
Sanskrit: अज्ञो जन्तुरनीशोऽयमात्मनः सुखदुःखयोः। ईश्वरप्रेरितो गच्छेत् स्वर्ग नरकमेव च॥
English: Ignorant as they are, creatures are not masters of their own happiness or misery; dispatched by the Providence they either go to heaven or hell.
Sanskrit: यथा वायोस्तृणाचाणि वशं यान्ति बलीयसः। धातुरेवं वशं यान्ति सर्वभूतानि भारत॥
English: As light straws are brought to the subjugation of the strong wind, so all creatures, O descendant of Bharata, depend upon the Creator.
Sanskrit: आर्ये कर्मणि युञ्जानः पापे वा पुनरीश्वरः। व्याप्य भूतानि चरते न चायमिति लक्ष्यते॥
English: Again, performing actions right or wrong and pervading the universe, the Lord exists but is not perceived by any (who can say) "This is God."
Sanskrit: हेतुमात्रमिदंधातुः शरीरं क्षेत्रसंज्ञितम्। येन कारयते कर्म शुभाशुभफलं विभुः॥
English: This physical body is merely the instrument of God by which the Lord engages them in actions, the fruits of which are cither good or bad.
Sanskrit: पश्य मायाप्रभावोऽयमीश्वरेण यथा कृतः। यो हन्ति भूतैर्भूतानि मोहयित्वाऽऽत्ममायया॥
English: Behold the power of the illusive energy by which he makes them kill their fellows.
Sanskrit: अन्यथा परिदृष्टानि मुनिभिस्तत्त्वदर्शिभिः। अन्यथा परिवर्तन्ते वेगा इव नभस्वतः॥
English: This is seen in a different light by the sages seeing the real truths; they appear to them in a different light like the rays of the sun.
Sanskrit: अन्यथैव ही मन्यन्ते पुरुषास्तानि तानि च। अन्यथैव प्रभुस्तानि करोति विकरोति च॥
English: Ordinary people see all those things in a different view; the Lord create and destroy them in a different way.
Sanskrit: यथा काष्ठेन वा काष्ठमश्मानं चाश्मना पुनः। अयसा चाप्ययश्छिन्द्यानिर्विचेष्टमचेतनम्॥ एवं स भगवान् देवः स्वयम्भूः प्रपितामहः। हिनस्ति भूतैर्भूतानिच्छद्म कृत्वा युधिष्ठिर॥
English: As one can break a piece of inactive senseless wood with wood, stone with stone and iron with iron. So, O Yudhishthira the Self-create, divinc Grandsire spreading his illusive energy destroys creatures, with creatures.
Sanskrit: सम्प्रयोज्य वियोज्यायं कामकारकरः प्रभुः। क्रीडते भगवान् भूतैर्बालः क्रीडनकैरिव॥
English: Like a child playing with his creatures, creating and destroying them.
Sanskrit: न मातृपितृवद् राजन्धाता भूतेषु वर्तते। रोषादिव प्रवृत्तोऽयं यथायमितरो जनः॥
English: O king, the Providence behaves towards the creatures, like a father or mother, like an ordinary person he (sometimes) seems to be angry towards them.
Sanskrit: आर्याञ्छोलवतो दृष्ट्वा ह्रीमतो वृत्तिकर्शितान्। अनार्यान् सुखिनश्चैव विह्वलामीव चिन्तया।॥
English: Sceing elderly, well behaved and modest persons, in distress and the vicious, in happiness, I am beside myself with thought.
Sanskrit: तवेमामापदं दृष्ट्वा समृद्धिं च सुयोधने। धातारं गर्हये पार्थ विषमं योऽनुपश्यति॥
English: O son of Pritha, seeing your misfortune and the prosperity of Suyodhana, I blame the Providence who sees such an inequality.
Sanskrit: आर्यशास्त्रातिगे क्रूर लुब्धेधर्मापचायिनि। धार्तराष्ट्र श्रियं दत्त्वाधाता किं फलमश्नुते॥
English: Conferring prosperity prosperity upon the wily avaricious of Dhritarashtra, who transgresses the sacred scriptures and injures virtue, what fruit shall the Creator reap?
Sanskrit: कर्म चेत् कृतमन्वेति कर्तारं नान्यमृच्छति। कर्मणा तेन पापेन लिप्यते नूनमीश्वरः॥
English: If the act done follows the performer then forsooth, the God himself is contaminated with the sin of every action.
Sanskrit: अथ कर्म कृतं पापं न चेत् कर्तारमृच्छति। कारणं बलमेवेह जनाञ्छोचामि दुर्बलान्॥
English: If the sin consequent upon actions does not touch the doer then the individual power is the cause and I grieve for those who are weak. son
Sanskrit: युधिष्ठिर उवाच वल्गु चित्रपदं श्लक्ष्णं याज्ञसेनि त्वया वचः। उक्तं तच्छ्रुतमस्माभिर्नास्तिक्यं तु प्रभाषसे॥
English: Yudhishthira said : O Yajnaseni, your speech is sweet, clear and full of nice expressions; we have listened to it; you speak of atheism.
Sanskrit: नाहं कर्मफलान्वेषी राजपुत्रि चराम्युत। ददामि देयमित्येव यजै यष्टव्यमित्युत॥
English: O princess, I never act being desirous of the fruits thereof; I distribute (a thing) which should be distributed and I perform a sacrifice which should be performed.
Sanskrit: अस्तु वात्र फलं मा वा कर्तव्यं पुरुषेण यत्। गृहे वा वसता कृष्णे यथाशक्ति करोमि तत्॥
English: I perform, as best as I can, O Krishna, what a householder should do, not caring for the fruits (of my actions).
Sanskrit: धर्मं चरामि सुश्रोणि नधर्मफलकारणात्। आगमाननतिक्रम्य सतां वृत्तमवेक्ष्य च॥
English: O fair-lady, I act piously not for getting the fruits of virtue but for not transgressing the Vedas and seeing the conduct of the pious.
Sanskrit: धर्म एव मनः कृष्णे स्वभावाच्चैव मेधृतम्। धमवाणिज्यको हीनो जघन्योधर्मवादिनाम्॥ नधर्मफलमाप्नोति योधर्मं दोग्धुमिच्छति। यश्चैनं शङ्कते कृत्वा नास्तिक्यात् पापचेतनः॥
English: My mind and nature, O Krishna, are naturally bent upon virtue; that vile trader of virtue, the worst of the virtuous, who wishes to reap the fruits of virtue, does never obtain them; nor does a vicious-minded person, for his scepticism, who doubts a virtuous act, having accomplished it.
Sanskrit: अतिवादाद् वदाम्येष माधर्ममभिशङ्किथाः। धर्माभिशङ्की पुरुषस्तिर्यग्गतिपरायणः॥
English: From the evidence of the Vedas I say, “You should never doubt virtue; the person doubting virtue is destined to be born among the brutes."
Sanskrit: धर्मो यस्याभिशक्यः स्यादाष वा दुर्बलात्मनः। वेदाच्छूद्र इवापेयात् स लोकादजरामरात्॥
English: A weak-minded man who doubts religion, virtue and the words of the Rishis, is precluded form the regions of immortality and bliss as the Shudras are from the Vedas.
Sanskrit: वेदाध्यायीधर्मपरः कुले जातो मनस्विनि। स्थविरेषु स योक्तव्यो राजर्षिर्धर्मचारिभिः॥
English: O large-minded lady, one studying the Vedas, virtuous and born in a high race, (though young) is considered aged by the pious royal saints.
Sanskrit: पापीयान् स हि शूद्रेभ्यस्तस्करेभ्यो विशिष्यते। शास्त्रातिगो मन्दबुद्धिर्योधर्ममभिशङ्कते॥
English: That vicious-minded one, who transgresses the scriptures and doubts virtue is regarded as lower even than the Shudras and robbers.
Sanskrit: प्रत्यक्षं हि त्वया दृष्ट ऋषिर्गच्छन् महातपाः। मार्कण्डेयोऽप्रमेयात्माधर्मेण चिरजीविता॥
English: You have seen with your own eyes the great ascetic Markandeya of incomparable magnanimity come to us who has been rendered immortal by virtue.
Sanskrit: व्यासो वसिष्ठो मैत्रेयो नारदो लोमशः शुकः। अन्ये च ऋषयः सर्वेधर्मेणैव सुचेतसः॥
English: Vyasa, Vasishtha, Maitreya, Narada Lomasha, Shuka and all other Rishis have become of pure souls by virtue.
Sanskrit: प्रत्यक्षं पश्यसि ह्येतान् दिव्ययोगसमन्वितान्। शापानुग्रहणे शक्तान् देवेभ्योऽपि गरीयसः॥
English: You yourself see all these endued with celestials asceticism capable of cursing or blessing and superior even to the celestials,
Sanskrit: एते हिधर्ममेवादौ वर्णयन्ति सदानघे। कर्तव्यममरप्रख्याः प्रत्यक्षागमबुद्धयः॥
English: O sinless lady, these sages, equal to the Rishis and who can see what is written in the Vedas, describe virtue as the foremost duty.
Sanskrit: अतो नार्हसि कल्याणिधातारंधर्ममेव च। राज्ञि मूढेन मनसा क्षेप्तुं शङ्कितुमेव च।॥
English: You should not, O blessed queen, with a foolish mind either doubt or censure the Providence or (His act).
Sanskrit: उन्मत्तान् मन्यते बाल: सर्वानागतनिश्चयान्। धर्माभिशङ्को नान्यस्मात् प्रमाणमधिगच्छति॥ आत्मप्रमाण उन्नद्धः श्रेयसो ह्यवमन्यकः। इन्द्रियप्रीतिसम्बद्धं यदिदं लोकसाक्षिकम्। एतावन्मन्यते बालो. मोहमन्यत्र गच्छति॥
English: The fool, who doubts religion and disregards virtue and being proud of the proof of his own reasoning, does not receive it from others, considers all these sages who look upon the future as present, like mad man. He considers the external world as conducive to the gratification of senses and is blind to everything else.
Sanskrit: प्रायश्चित्तं न तस्यास्ति योधर्ममभिशङ्कते। ध्यायन् स कृपणः पापो न लोकान् प्रतिपद्यते॥
English: Whoever, doubts religion has no expatiation of his sin; that wretched and vile person feels anxicty (here) and does not attain to the regions (of bliss) hereafter.
Sanskrit: प्रमाणाद्धि निवृत्तो हि वेदशास्त्रार्थनिन्दकः। कामलोभातिगो मूढो नरकं प्रतिपद्यते॥
English: That stupid person, who does not regard evidences, who vilifics the interpretation of the Vedic texts and who commits sin under the influence of lust and covetousness, is doomed to hell.
Sanskrit: यस्तु नित्यं कृतमतिर्धर्ममेवाभिपद्यते। अशङ्कमानः कल्याणि सोऽमुत्रानन्त्यमश्नुते॥
English: O blessed lady, he however, who, with faith and without any doubt follows religion, attains to eternal bliss in the next world.
Sanskrit: आर्षं प्रमाणमुत्क्रम्यधर्मं न प्रतिपालयन्। सर्वशास्त्रातिगो मूढः शं जन्मसु न विन्दति॥
English: That stupid person, who transgresses the evidences of the Rishis, who does not follow religion and who transgresses all the scriptures, never obtains bliss in any life.
Sanskrit: यस्य नार्षं प्रमाणं स्याच्छिष्टाचारच भाविनि। न वै तस्य परो लोको नायमस्तीति निश्चयः॥
English: For him, O fair lady, who disregards the words of the Rishis and does not care for the evidence of the pious, neither this world nor the next exists.
Sanskrit: शिष्टैराचरितंधर्मं कृष्णे मा स्माभिशङ्किथाः। पुराणमृषिभिः प्रोक्तं सर्वज्ञैः सर्वदर्शिभिः॥
English: Doubt not, O Krishna, the ancient religion which is followed by the good and formulated by the omniscient and omnipotent Rishis.
Sanskrit: धर्म एव प्लवो नान्यः स्वर्ग द्रौपदि गच्छताम्। सैव नौः सागरस्येव वणिजः पारमिच्छतः॥
English: O Draupadi, virtue is the only raft and nothingelse to those who wish to go to heaven, like a ship to the merchant wishing to cross the Ocean.
Sanskrit: अफलो यदिधर्मः स्याच्चरितोधर्मचारिभिः। अप्रतिष्ठे तमस्येतज्जगन्मज्जेदनिन्दिते॥
English: O blameless lady, if the pieties practised by the virtuous had no fruits then this world would been enshrouded by infamous darkness.
Sanskrit: निर्वाणं नाधिगच्छेयुर्जीवेयुः पशुजीविकाम्। विद्यां ते नैव युज्येयुर्न चार्थ केचिदाप्नुयुः॥
English: None would have followed emancipation, none would have cared for the acquisition of knowledge or even of wealth and people would have lived like beasts.
Sanskrit: तपश्च ब्रह्मचर्यं च यज्ञः स्वाध्याय एव च। दानमार्जवमेतानि यदि स्युरफलानि वै॥ नाचरिष्यन् परेधर्म परे परतरे च ये। विप्रलम्भोऽयमत्यन्तं यदि स्युरफलाः क्रियाः॥ ऋषयश्चैव देवाश्च गन्धर्वासुरराक्षसाः। ईश्वराः कस्य हेतोस्ते चरेयुर्धर्ममादृताः॥
English: If devout penances, life of celibacy, sacrifice, the study of the Vedas, charity and honesty-these were fruitless then people would not have practised virtues, generation after generation. If all the action had been fruitless a terrible confusion would have set in. Why do the Rishis, the gods the Gandharvas, the Asuras and the Rakshasas who are lords of themselves, with love practise virtues?
Sanskrit: फलदं त्विह विज्ञायधातारं श्रेयसिध्रुवम्। धर्मं ते व्यचरन् कृष्णे तद्धि श्रेयः सनातनम्॥
English: Considering for certain that Providence is the giver of fruits in virtue, they practise virtues; O Krishna, for them is eternal bliss.
Sanskrit: ह नायमफलोधर्मो नाधर्मोऽफलवानपि। दृश्यन्तेऽपि हि विद्यानां फलानि तपसां तथा॥ त्वमात्मनो विजानीहि जन्म कृष्णेयथा श्रुतम्। वेत्थ चापि यथा जातोधृष्टद्युम्नः प्रतापवान्॥
English: Whereas the fruits of knowledge and ascetic observances are seen, virtue and vice can never be devoid of fruits. Recollect, O Krishna, the circumstances of your birth, as you have heard and also the manner in which the powerful Dhristadyumna was born.
Sanskrit: एतावदेव पर्याप्तमुपमानं शुचिस्मिते। कर्मणां फलमाप्नोतिधीरोऽल्पेनापि तुष्यति॥
English: These are sufficient proofs, O you of sweet smiles; the self-controlled reap the fruits of acts and are satisfied with a little.
Sanskrit: बहुनापि ह्यविद्वांसो नैव तुष्यन्त्यबुद्धयः। तेषां नधर्मजं किंचित् प्रेत्य शर्मास्ति वा पुनः॥
English: Ignorant and stupid persons are not satisfied even with much and they have no happiness begotten of virtue for them in the next world.
Sanskrit: कर्मणां श्रुतपुण्यानां पापानां च फलोदयः। प्रभवश्चात्ययश्चैव देवगुह्यानि भाविनि॥
English: The fruits of the holy acts laid down in the Vedas as well as of sinful acts, the root and the destruction of actions, O fair lady, are mysteries even to the celestials,
Sanskrit: नैतानि वेद यः कश्चिन्मुह्यन्तेऽत्र प्रजा इमाः। अपि कल्पसहस्रेण न स श्रेयोऽधिगच्छति॥
English: These are not known to all; ordinary people are ignorant of these; he does not follow in a thousand Kalpa the well-being of the celestials.
Sanskrit: रक्ष्यान्येतानि देवानां गूढमाया हि देवताः। कृताशाश्च व्रताशाश्च तपसा दग्धकिल्बिषाः। प्रसादैर्मानसैर्युक्ताः पश्यन्त्येतानि वै द्विजाः॥
English: These are kept (in secrecy) by the celestials for their illusive energy is mysterious; those Brahmanas that have conquered their aspirations, those that have built up their hopes, those whose sins have been burnt down by ascetic observances, those who have got contented minds, can observe these.
Sanskrit: न फलादर्शनाद्धर्मः शङ्कितव्यो न देवताः। यष्टव्यं च प्रयत्नेन दातव्यं चानसूयता॥
English: For not seeing the fruit you should not doubt religion or the gods; you should perform sacrifices assiduously and charities without any insolence.
Sanskrit: कर्मणां फलमस्तीह तथैतद्धर्मशासनम्। ब्रह्मा प्रोवाच पुत्राणां यदृषिर्वेद कश्यपः॥
English: Acts have their fruits in this world and virtue is eternal; as said by Kashyapa, Brahma told all this to his sons.
Sanskrit: तस्मात् ते संशयः कृष्णे नीहार इव नश्यतु। व्यवस्य सर्वमस्तीति नास्तिक्यं भावमुत्सृज॥
English: O Krishna, let your doubt be destroyed like dews meditating upon all this. Let your scepticism yield to faith.
Sanskrit: ईश्वरं चापि भूतानांधातारं मा च वै क्षिप। शिक्षस्वैनं नमस्वैनं मा तेऽभूद् बुद्धिरीदृशी॥
English: Do not speak ill of God who is the lord of all creatures; learn to know him; bow to him; let not your understanding be such.
Sanskrit: यस्य प्रसादात् तद्भक्तो मर्यो गच्छत्यमर्त्यताम्। उत्तमां देवतां कृष्णे मावमंस्थाः कथंचन॥
English: Never disregard that Supreme being, Krishna, by whose mercy the mortals, by pious observances, become immortals.
Sanskrit: द्रौपद्युवाच नावमन्ये न गर्हे चधर्मं पार्थ कथंचन। ईश्वरं कुत एवाहमवमस्ये प्रजापतिम्॥
English: Draupadi said : I never disregard or speak ill of religion, O son of Pritha; why should I disregard God, the lord of creations?
Sanskrit: आर्ताहं प्रलपामीदमिति मां विद्धि भारत। भूयश्च विलपिष्यामि सुमनास्त्वं निबोध मे॥
English: O descendant of Bharata, consider me raving as being stricken with misery, listen to me, I shall again bewail.
Sanskrit: कर्म खल्विह कर्तव्यं जानतामित्रकर्शन। अकर्माणो हि जीवन्ति स्थावरा नेतरे जनाः॥
English: O represser of enemies, forsooth every conscious being should engage in actions in this world; it is only the immobile and not even other creatures that can live without action.
Sanskrit: यावद्गोस्तनपानाच्च यावच्छायोपसेवनात्। जन्तवः कर्मणा वृत्तिमाप्नुवन्ति युधिष्ठिर॥
English: Immediately after the birth the calf sucks the mother's teat. (People feel distress) as soon as incantations are performed on their statues; the creatures, O Yudhishthira, deserve the character of their lives according to pristine actions.
Sanskrit: जङ्गमेषु विशेषेण मनुष्या भरतर्षभ। इच्छन्ति कर्मणा वृत्तिमवाप्तुं प्रेत्य चेह च॥
English: O foremost of Bharatas, this is the difference of man from mobile creatures, that he aspires to like his course of life both in this world and in the next by means of his acts.
Sanskrit: उत्थानमभिजानन्ति सर्वभूतानि भारत। प्रत्यक्षं फलमश्नन्ति कर्मणां लोकसाक्षिकम्॥
English: O descendant of Bharata, all creatures perceive the impression of the pristine life and they visibly reap in this world the fruits of their acts.
Sanskrit: सर्वे हि स्वं समुत्थानमुपजीवन्ति जन्तवः। अपिधाता विधाता च यथायमुदके बकः॥
English: All creatures live according to the impression of the pristine life, even the creatures and the ordainers of the universe like a crane that lives on the water.
Sanskrit: अकर्मणां वै भूतानां वृत्तिः स्यान्न हि काचन। तदेवाभिप्रपद्येत न विहन्यात् कदाचन॥
English: The course of life for a creatures that does not act is impossible; for them there is action and never inaction.
Sanskrit: स्वकर्म कुरु मा ग्लासी: कर्मणा भव दंशितः। कृतं हि योऽभिजानाति सहस्रे सोऽस्ति नास्ति च॥
English: You should therefore act and never incur censure by leaving affection; cover yourself with action as with an armour. There might not be one in a thousand who does not truly understand the utility of work.
Sanskrit: तस्य चापि भवेत् कार्यं विवृद्धौ रक्षणे तथा। भक्ष्यमाणो ह्यनादानात् क्षीयेत् हिमवानपि॥
English: One should act either for increasing or protecting his wealth; if spent without being earned it vanishes although it be like (the mount) Himavana.
Sanskrit: उत्सीदेरन् प्रजाः सर्वा न कुर्युः कर्म चेद् भुवि। तथा ह्येता न वधैरन् कर्म चेदफलं भवेत्॥
English: All creatures would have been exterminated if there were no action; if acts had born no fruits they would not have multiplied.
Sanskrit: अपि चाप्यफलं कर्म पश्यामः कुर्वतो जनान्। नान्यथा ह्यपि गच्छन्ति वृत्ति लोकाः कथंचन॥
English: It is sometimes observed that creatures perform acts that give them no fruits; for without action the course of life would be an impossibility.
Sanskrit: यश्च दिष्टपरो लोके यश्चापि हठवादिकः। उभावपि शठावेतौ कर्मबुद्धिः प्रशस्यते॥
English: Whoever in this world believe in Destiny and whoever in chance are both the worst of people; those only are praiseworthy who believe in the efficacy of acts.
Sanskrit: यो हि दिष्टमुपासीनो निर्विचेष्टः सुखं शयेत्। अवसीदेत् स दुर्बुद्धिरामो घट इवोदके॥
English: He, who has been at ease without any action and believing in Destiny, is soon consumed like an unburnt earthen pot in water.
Sanskrit: तथैव हठदुर्बुद्धिः शक्तः कर्मण्यकर्मकृत्। आसीत न चिरं जीवेदनाथ इव दुर्बलः॥
English: So also that man, who believes in chance and who, though capable of work, does not work, does not live long, for his life is one of weakness and helplessness.
Sanskrit: अकस्मादिह यः कश्चिदर्थं प्राप्नोति पूरुषः। तं हठेनेति मन्यन्ते स हि यत्नो न कस्यचित्॥
English: If a person in the world attains, by accident, to an accession of wealth-people consider it derived from chance for none has tried for it.
Sanskrit: यच्चापि किंचित् पुरुषो दिष्टं नाम भजत्युत। दैवेन विधिना पार्थ तद् दैवमिति निश्चितम्॥
English: O son of Pritha, whatever good fortune a person acquires in consequence of religious rites is called Providential.