The Sages' Dispute and Sanatkumara's Teaching

Verse 1 (12.227.1)

के चिदाहुर्द्विधा लोके त्रिधा राजन्ननेकधा । न प्रत्ययो न चान्यच्च दृश्यते ब्रह्म नैव तत् ॥

ke cidāhurdvidhā loke tridhā rājannanekadhā | na pratyayo na cānyacca dṛśyate brahma naiva tat

Some in the world say that it is twofold, some threefold, O king, and some manifold. No firm conviction is found, and nothing else is seen; that is not Brahman at all.

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Verse 2 (12.227.2)

नानाविधानि शास्त्राणि युक्ताश्चैव पृथग्विधाः । किमधिष्ठाय तिष्ठामि तन्मे ब्रूहि पितामह ॥

nānāvidhāni śāstrāṇi yuktāścaiva pṛthagvidhāḥ | kimadhiṣṭhāya tiṣṭhāmi tanme brūhi pitāmaha

There are treatises of many kinds, and those who follow them are of many different kinds too. On what should I take my stand? Tell me that, grandfather.

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Verse 3 (12.227.3)

स्वे स्वे युक्ता महात्मानः शास्त्रेषु प्रभविष्णवः । वर्तन्ते पण्डिता लोके को विद्वान्कश्च पण्डितः । सर्वेषां तत्त्वमज्ञाय यथारुचि तथा भवेत् ॥

sve sve yuktā mahātmānaḥ śāstreṣu prabhaviṣṇavaḥ | vartante paṇḍitā loke ko vidvānkaśca paṇḍitaḥ | sarveṣāṃ tattvamajñāya yathāruci tathā bhavet

Great men, each devoted to his own treatise and powerful in it, live in the world as scholars. Who then is truly the knower, and who the pandit? Without knowing the truth of them all, each would be just as he pleases.

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Verse 4 (12.227.4)

अस्मिन्नर्थे पुराभूतमितिहासं पुरातनम् । महाविवादसंयुक्तमृषीणां भावितात्मनाम् ॥

asminnarthe purābhūtamitihāsaṃ purātanam | mahāvivādasaṃyuktamṛṣīṇāṃ bhāvitātmanām

On this matter there is an old account from the past, bound up with a great dispute among sages of purified souls.

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Verse 5 (12.227.5)

हिमवत्पार्श्व आसीना ऋषयः संशितव्रताः । षण्णां तानि सहस्राणि ऋषीणां गणमाहितम् ॥

himavatpārśva āsīnā ṛṣayaḥ saṃśitavratāḥ | ṣaṇṇāṃ tāni sahasrāṇi ṛṣīṇāṃ gaṇamāhitam

Sages of strict vows were sitting on the flank of the Himalaya; a company of six thousand sages was gathered there.

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Verse 6 (12.227.6)

तत्र के चिद्ध्रुवं विश्वं सेश्वरं तु निरीश्वरम् । प्राकृतं कारणं नास्ति सर्वं नैवमिदं जगत् ॥

tatra ke ciddhruvaṃ viśvaṃ seśvaraṃ tu nirīśvaram | prākṛtaṃ kāraṇaṃ nāsti sarvaṃ naivamidaṃ jagat

Among them some held the universe to be fixed and to have a Lord, while others held that it has none; there is no natural cause, they said, and this whole world is not so at all.

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Verse 7 (12.227.7)

अनेन चापरे विप्राः स्वभावं कर्म चापरे । पौरुषं कर्म दैवं च यत्स्वभावादिरेव तम् ॥

anena cāpare viprāḥ svabhāvaṃ karma cāpare | pauruṣaṃ karma daivaṃ ca yatsvabhāvādireva tam

By this argument other brahmins held to inherent nature, and others to action; some to human effort, some to action and fate, and some to that which has inherent nature as its beginning.

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Verse 8 (12.227.8)

नानाहेतुशतैर्युक्ता नानाशास्त्रप्रवर्तकाः । स्वभावाद्ब्राह्मणा राजञ्जिगीषन्तः परस्परम् ॥

nānāhetuśatairyuktā nānāśāstrapravartakāḥ | svabhāvādbrāhmaṇā rājañjigīṣantaḥ parasparam

Those brahmins, O king, armed with hundreds of different arguments and founders of different treatises, were each by his own nature eager to defeat the other.

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Verse 9 (12.227.9)

ततस्तु मूलमुद्भूतं वादिप्रत्यर्थिसंयुतम् । पात्रदण्डविघातं च वल्कलाजिनवाससाम् ॥

tatastu mūlamudbhūtaṃ vādipratyarthisaṃyutam | pātradaṇḍavighātaṃ ca valkalājinavāsasām

Then a root of quarrel arose, with disputant set against opponent, and the bowls and staffs of those clad in bark and deerskin were smashed.

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Verse 10 (12.227.10)

एके मन्युसमापन्नास्ततः शान्ता द्विजोत्तमाः । वसिष्ठमब्रुवन्सर्वे त्वं नो ब्रूहि सनातनम् ॥

eke manyusamāpannāstataḥ śāntā dvijottamāḥ | vasiṣṭhamabruvansarve tvaṃ no brūhi sanātanam

Some were seized by anger; then the best of brahmins, grown calm, all said to Vasishtha, "You tell us what is eternal."

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Verse 11 (12.227.11)

नाहं जानामि विप्रेन्द्राः प्रत्युवाच स तान्प्रभुः । ते सर्वे सहिता विप्रा नारदमृषिमब्रुवन् ॥

nāhaṃ jānāmi viprendrāḥ pratyuvāca sa tānprabhuḥ | te sarve sahitā viprā nāradamṛṣimabruvan

"I do not know, chiefs of brahmins," the lord answered them. Then all those brahmins together said to the sage Narada,

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Verse 12 (12.227.12)

त्वं नो ब्रूहि महाभाग तत्त्वविच्च भवानसि । नाहं द्विजा विजानामि क्व हि गच्छाम संगताः ॥

tvaṃ no brūhi mahābhāga tattvavicca bhavānasi | nāhaṃ dvijā vijānāmi kva hi gacchāma saṃgatāḥ

"Tell us, O illustrious one, for you know the truth." "I do not know, brahmins," he said. "Where shall we go, all together?"

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Verse 13 (12.227.13)

इति तानाह भगवांस्ततः प्राह च स द्विजान् । को विद्वानिह लोकेऽस्मिन्नमोहोऽमृतमद्भुतम् ॥

iti tānāha bhagavāṃstataḥ prāha ca sa dvijān | ko vidvāniha loke'sminnamoho'mṛtamadbhutam

So the Blessed One answered them, and then he said to the brahmins, "Who in this world is the knower, free from delusion, who knows the wondrous immortal?"

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Verse 14 (12.227.14)

तच्च ते शुश्रुवुर्वाक्यं ब्राह्मणा ह्यशरीरिणः । सनद्धाम द्विजा गत्वा पृच्छध्वं स च वक्ष्यति ॥

tacca te śuśruvurvākyaṃ brāhmaṇā hyaśarīriṇaḥ | sanaddhāma dvijā gatvā pṛcchadhvaṃ sa ca vakṣyati

Then those brahmins heard a speech from one who had no body: "Go, brahmins, to Sanaddhama and ask; he will tell you."

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Verse 15 (12.227.15)

तमाह कश्चिद्द्विजवर्यसत्तमो । विभाण्डको मण्डितवेदराशिः । कस्त्वं भवानर्थविभेदमध्ये । न दृश्यसे वाक्यमुदीरयंश्च ॥

tamāha kaściddvijavaryasattamo | vibhāṇḍako maṇḍitavedarāśiḥ | kastvaṃ bhavānarthavibhedamadhye | na dṛśyase vākyamudīrayaṃśca

A certain one, the best among the best of brahmins, Vibhandaka, adorned with a mass of Vedic learning, said to him, "Who are you, sir, in the midst of this division of meanings? You utter speech, yet you are not seen."

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Verse 16 (12.227.16)

अथाहेदं तं भगवान्सनन्तं । महामुने विद्धि मां पण्डितोऽसि । ऋषिं पुराणं सततैकरूपं । यमक्षयं वेदविदो वदन्ति ॥

athāhedaṃ taṃ bhagavānsanantaṃ | mahāmune viddhi māṃ paṇḍito'si | ṛṣiṃ purāṇaṃ satataikarūpaṃ | yamakṣayaṃ vedavido vadanti

Then the Blessed One said this to him: "O great sage, know me, for you are learned, as the ancient seer who is ever of one form, whom the knowers of the Veda call imperishable."

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Verse 17 (12.227.17)

पुनस्तमाहेदमसौ महात्मा । स्वरूपसंस्थं वद आह पार्थ । त्वमेकोऽस्मदृषिपुंगवाद्य । न सत्स्वरूपमथ वा पुनः किम् ॥

punastamāhedamasau mahātmā | svarūpasaṃsthaṃ vada āha pārtha | tvameko'smadṛṣipuṃgavādya | na satsvarūpamatha vā punaḥ kim

Again that great soul said this to him: "Tell me of what stands in its own form," he said, "O Partha. You alone today, O bull among our sages: is it not of the nature of the real, or else what is it?"

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Verse 18 (12.227.18)

अथाह गम्भीरतरानुवादं । वाक्यं महात्मा ह्यशरीर आदिः । न ते मुने श्रोत्रमुखेऽपि चास्यं । न पादहस्तौ प्रपदात्मके न ॥

athāha gambhīratarānuvādaṃ | vākyaṃ mahātmā hyaśarīra ādiḥ | na te mune śrotramukhe'pi cāsyaṃ | na pādahastau prapadātmake na

Then the great soul, the bodiless primal one, spoke words of still deeper meaning: "O sage, you have no ear, nor mouth, nor face; you have no feet or hands, nor any limb to walk with."

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Verse 19 (12.227.19)

ब्रुवन्मुनीन्सत्यमथो निरीक्ष्य । स्वमाह विद्वान्मनसा निगम्य । ऋषे कथं वाक्यमिदं ब्रवीषि । न चास्य मन्ता न च विद्यते चेत् ॥

bruvanmunīnsatyamatho nirīkṣya | svamāha vidvānmanasā nigamya | ṛṣe kathaṃ vākyamidaṃ bravīṣi | na cāsya mantā na ca vidyate cet

Telling the sages the truth, and then gazing at them, the learned one, having reflected in his mind, said of himself: "O sage, how do you say this? And if there is none who thinks of him..."

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Verse 20 (12.227.20)

न शुश्रुवुस्ततस्तत्तु प्रतिवाक्यं द्विजोत्तमाः । निरीक्षमाणा आकाशं प्रहसन्तस्ततस्ततः ॥

na śuśruvustatastattu prativākyaṃ dvijottamāḥ | nirīkṣamāṇā ākāśaṃ prahasantastatastataḥ

The best of brahmins heard no reply to that; gazing at the sky and laughing here and there,

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Verse 21 (12.227.21)

आश्चर्यमिति मत्वा ते ययुर्हैमं महागिरिम् । सनत्कुमारसंकाशं सगणा मुनिसत्तमाः ॥

āścaryamiti matvā te yayurhaimaṃ mahāgirim | sanatkumārasaṃkāśaṃ sagaṇā munisattamāḥ

and thinking it a wonder, those best of sages with their companies went to the great golden mountain, which shone like Sanatkumara himself.

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Verse 22 (12.227.22)

तं पर्वतं समारुह्य ददृशुर्ध्यानमाश्रिताः । कुमारं देवमर्हन्तं वेदपाराविवर्जितम् ॥

taṃ parvataṃ samāruhya dadṛśurdhyānamāśritāḥ | kumāraṃ devamarhantaṃ vedapārāvivarjitam

Climbing that mountain, they saw him sunk in meditation: the youthful god Kumara, worthy of worship, free of the limit of the Vedas.

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Verse 23 (12.227.23)

ततः संवत्सरे पूर्णे प्रकृतिस्थं महामुनिम् । सनत्कुमारं राजेन्द्र प्रणिपत्य द्विजाः स्थिताः ॥

tataḥ saṃvatsare pūrṇe prakṛtisthaṃ mahāmunim | sanatkumāraṃ rājendra praṇipatya dvijāḥ sthitāḥ

Then, when a full year had passed, the brahmins, O king of kings, bowed down to the great sage Sanatkumara, who was resting in his natural state, and stood before him.

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Verse 24 (12.227.24)

आगतान्भगवानाह ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषः । ज्ञातं मया मुनिगणा वाक्यं तदशरीरिणः । कार्यमद्य यथाकामं पृच्छध्वं मुनिपुंगवाः ॥

āgatānbhagavānāha jñānanirdhūtakalmaṣaḥ | jñātaṃ mayā munigaṇā vākyaṃ tadaśarīriṇaḥ | kāryamadya yathākāmaṃ pṛcchadhvaṃ munipuṃgavāḥ

To those who had come the Blessed One, his stains washed away by knowledge, said: "I have understood that speech of the bodiless one, O company of sages. Today ask as you wish, bulls among sages."

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Verse 25 (12.227.25)

तमब्रुवन्प्राञ्जलयो महामुनिं । द्विजोत्तमं ज्ञाननिधिं सुनिर्मलम् । कथं वयं ज्ञाननिधिं वरेण्यं । यक्ष्यामहे विश्वरूपं कुमार ॥

tamabruvanprāñjalayo mahāmuniṃ | dvijottamaṃ jñānanidhiṃ sunirmalam | kathaṃ vayaṃ jñānanidhiṃ vareṇyaṃ | yakṣyāmahe viśvarūpaṃ kumāra

With folded hands they said to him, the great sage, best of brahmins, treasury of knowledge, spotless: "How shall we worship the treasury of knowledge, the choicest, the all-formed, O Kumara?"

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Verse 26 (12.227.26)

प्रसीद नो भगवञ्ज्ञानलेशं । मधुप्रयाताय सुखाय सन्तः । यत्तत्पदं विश्वरूपं महामुने । तत्र ब्रूहि किं कुत्र महानुभाव ॥

prasīda no bhagavañjñānaleśaṃ | madhuprayātāya sukhāya santaḥ | yattatpadaṃ viśvarūpaṃ mahāmune | tatra brūhi kiṃ kutra mahānubhāva

"Be gracious to us, Blessed One, with a trace of knowledge, for the happiness of us good men who have set out in sweetness. That state, the all-formed, O great sage: tell us what it is and where it is, O mighty one."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0065-0068): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged. The CE prints this verse as four short lines (quarters); all four are kept. The line "madhuprayātāya sukhāya santaḥ" (0066) is unclear; translated as printed.

Verse 27 (12.227.27)

स तैर्वियुक्तो भगवान्महात्मा । योऽसंगवान्सत्यवित्तच्छृणुष्व । अनेकसाहस्रकलेषु चैव । प्रसन्नधातुं च शुभाज्ञया सत् ॥

sa tairviyukto bhagavānmahātmā | yo'saṃgavānsatyavittacchṛṇuṣva | anekasāhasrakaleṣu caiva | prasannadhātuṃ ca śubhājñayā sat

"That Blessed Great Soul, who is parted from them, unattached, a knower of the truth: hear of him. In many thousands of parts, too, with a serene substance, he exists by auspicious command."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0069-0072): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged. The CE prints this verse as four short lines (quarters); all four are kept. The text is evidently corrupt in the CE's Appendix I passage; translated as printed. Given to the narrator (Bhishma) because the singular imperative "chṛṇuṣva" (0070) must be addressed to Yudhishthira.

Verse 28 (12.227.28)

यथाह पूर्वं युष्मासु ह्यशरीरी द्विजोत्तमाः । तथैव वाक्यं तत्सत्यमजानन्तश्च कीर्तितम् ॥

yathāha pūrvaṃ yuṣmāsu hyaśarīrī dvijottamāḥ | tathaiva vākyaṃ tatsatyamajānantaśca kīrtitam

"As the bodiless one told you earlier, O best of brahmins, so too that statement is true; yet it was declared by those who did not know."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0073-0074): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged. From here to line 0108 the speech is given to Sanatkumara, who answers the sages (the verse addresses them as "dvijottamāḥ").

Verse 29 (12.227.29)

शृणुध्वं परमं कारणमस्ति । कथमवगम्यते । अहन्यहनि पाकविशेषो दृश्यते । तेन मिश्रं सर्वं मिश्रयते ॥

śṛṇudhvaṃ paramaṃ kāraṇamasti | kathamavagamyate | ahanyahani pākaviśeṣo dṛśyate | tena miśraṃ sarvaṃ miśrayate

"Hear: there is a supreme cause. How is it known? Day after day a particular ripening is seen; by it all that is mixed is made to mingle."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, prose sentences 1-4 of the CE's prose stretch (lines 0075-0085; the CE breaks the prose at arbitrary line ends and marks sentence ends with "|", so the sentences are given one to a line)): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged.

Verse 30 (12.227.30)

यथा मण्डली दृशि सर्वेषामस्ति निदर्शनम् । अस्ति चक्षुष्मतामस्ति ज्ञाने स्वरूपं पश्यति । यथा दर्पणान्तर्निदर्शनम् । स एव सर्वं विद्वान्न बिभेति न गच्छति । कुत्राहं कस्य नाहं केनेत्यवर्तमानो विजानाति ॥

yathā maṇḍalī dṛśi sarveṣāmasti nidarśanam | asti cakṣuṣmatāmasti jñāne svarūpaṃ paśyati | yathā darpaṇāntarnidarśanam | sa eva sarvaṃ vidvānna bibheti na gacchati | kutrāhaṃ kasya nāhaṃ kenetyavartamāno vijānāti

"As the circle seen by the eye is an example for all. It exists for those who have eyes; one sees one's own form in knowledge, as the example of the reflection in a mirror. That very knower of all neither fears nor goes. Not turning about in thoughts such as 'Where am I? Whose am I not? By whom?', he knows."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, prose sentences 5-9 of the CE's prose stretch (lines 0075-0085; the CE breaks the prose at arbitrary line ends and marks sentence ends with "|", so the sentences are given one to a line)): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged.

Verse 31 (12.227.31)

स युगतो व्यापी । स पृथक्स्थितः । तदपरमार्थम् ॥

sa yugato vyāpī | sa pṛthaksthitaḥ | tadaparamārtham

"He pervades, joined with all; he stands apart. That is not the highest truth."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, prose sentences 10-12 of the CE's prose stretch (lines 0075-0085; the CE breaks the prose at arbitrary line ends and marks sentence ends with "|", so the sentences are given one to a line)): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged.

Verse 32 (12.227.32)

यथा वायुरेकः सन्बहुधेरितः । आश्रयविशेषो वा यस्याश्रयो वा । यथावद्द्विजे मृगे व्याघ्रे च । मनुजे वेणु संश्रयो भिद्यते वायुरथैकः ॥

yathā vāyurekaḥ sanbahudheritaḥ | āśrayaviśeṣo vā yasyāśrayo vā | yathāvaddvije mṛge vyāghre ca | manuje veṇu saṃśrayo bhidyate vāyurathaikaḥ

"As the one wind, though one, is stirred into many ways, or is divided by whatever its support is; in a brahmin, a deer, a tiger, a man, or a bamboo flute, the wind is divided by its support, yet the wind is one."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, prose sentences 13-16 of the CE's prose stretch (lines 0075-0085; the CE breaks the prose at arbitrary line ends and marks sentence ends with "|", so the sentences are given one to a line)): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged.

Verse 33 (12.227.33)

आत्मा तथासौ परमात्मासावन्य इव भाति । एवमात्मा स एव गच्छति । सर्वमात्मा पश्यञ्शृणोति न जिघ्रति न भाषते ॥

ātmā tathāsau paramātmāsāvanya iva bhāti | evamātmā sa eva gacchati | sarvamātmā paśyañśṛṇoti na jighrati na bhāṣate

"So the Self: this one is the Supreme Self, and he seems to be another. Thus the Self itself goes; the Self, seeing all, hears; it does not smell and does not speak."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, prose sentences 17-19 of the CE's prose stretch (lines 0075-0085; the CE breaks the prose at arbitrary line ends and marks sentence ends with "|", so the sentences are given one to a line)): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged.

Verse 34 (12.227.34)

चक्रेऽस्य तं महात्मानं परितो दश रश्मयः । विनिष्क्रम्य यथा सूर्यमनुगच्छति तं प्रभुम् ॥

cakre'sya taṃ mahātmānaṃ parito daśa raśmayaḥ | viniṣkramya yathā sūryamanugacchati taṃ prabhum

"On his wheel ten rays surround that great soul on every side; coming forth, they follow that Lord as they follow the sun."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0086-0087): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged.

Verse 35 (12.227.35)

दिने दिनेऽस्तमभ्येति पुनरुद्गच्छते दिशः । तावुभौ न रवौ चास्तां तथा वित्त शरीरिणम् ॥

dine dine'stamabhyeti punarudgacchate diśaḥ | tāvubhau na ravau cāstāṃ tathā vitta śarīriṇam

"Day after day it goes to its setting and rises again in the quarters. Those two are not two suns; know the embodied one in the same way."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0088-0089): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged.

Verse 36 (12.227.36)

पतिते वित्त विप्रेन्द्राः भक्षणे चरणे परः । ऊर्ध्वमेकस्तथाधस्तादेकस्तिष्ठति चापरः ॥

patite vitta viprendrāḥ bhakṣaṇe caraṇe paraḥ | ūrdhvamekastathādhastādekastiṣṭhati cāparaḥ

"Know, chiefs of brahmins, that when he has fallen he is intent on eating and moving about. One of them stands above, and the other stands below."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0090-0091): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged.

Verse 37 (12.227.37)

हिरण्यसदनं ज्ञेयं समेत्य परमं पदम् । आत्मना ह्यात्मदीपं तमात्मनि ह्यात्मपूरुषम् ॥

hiraṇyasadanaṃ jñeyaṃ sametya paramaṃ padam | ātmanā hyātmadīpaṃ tamātmani hyātmapūruṣam

"The golden abode is to be known, once one has reached the highest state: by the Self, the lamp of the Self, in the Self, the person of the Self."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0092-0093): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged.

Verse 38 (12.227.38)

संचितं संचितं पूर्वं भ्रमरो वर्तते भ्रमन् । योऽभिमानीव जानाति न मुह्यति न हीयते ॥

saṃcitaṃ saṃcitaṃ pūrvaṃ bhramaro vartate bhraman | yo'bhimānīva jānāti na muhyati na hīyate

"What was gathered and gathered before, the bee goes on gathering as it wanders. He who knows, as one who has the sense of self, is neither bewildered nor diminished."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0094-0095): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged. The sense of this verse is obscure in the CE's Appendix I passage; translated as printed.

Verse 39 (12.227.39)

न चक्षुषा पश्यति कश्चनैनं । हृदा मनीषा पश्यति रूपमस्य । न शुक्लं न कृष्णं परमार्थभावं । गुहाशयं ज्ञानदेवीकरस्थम् ॥

na cakṣuṣā paśyati kaścanainaṃ | hṛdā manīṣā paśyati rūpamasya | na śuklaṃ na kṛṣṇaṃ paramārthabhāvaṃ | guhāśayaṃ jñānadevīkarastham

"No one sees him with the eye; with the heart and the mind one sees his form. He is neither white nor black, of the nature of the highest truth, dwelling in the cave of the heart, resting in the hand of the goddess of knowledge."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0096-0099): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged. The CE prints this verse as four short lines (quarters); all four are kept.

Verse 40 (12.227.40)

ब्राह्मणस्य न सादृश्ये वर्तते सोऽपि किं पुनः । इज्यते यस्तु मन्त्रेण यजमानो द्विजोत्तमः ॥

brāhmaṇasya na sādṛśye vartate so'pi kiṃ punaḥ | ijyate yastu mantreṇa yajamāno dvijottamaḥ

"He does not stand in likeness to a brahmin; what more of him? He who is worshipped with a mantra, the sacrificer, the best of the twice-born."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0100-0101): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged. The sense of this verse is obscure in the CE's Appendix I passage; translated as printed.

Verse 41 (12.227.41)

नैव धर्मी न चाधर्मी द्वंद्वातीतो विमत्सरः । ज्ञानतृप्तः सुखं शेते ह्यमृतात्मा न संशयः ॥

naiva dharmī na cādharmī dvaṃdvātīto vimatsaraḥ | jñānatṛptaḥ sukhaṃ śete hyamṛtātmā na saṃśayaḥ

"He is neither righteous nor unrighteous, beyond the pairs of opposites, free of envy; content with knowledge, he sleeps in happiness, immortal in self. There is no doubt of it."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0102-0103): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged.

Verse 42 (12.227.42)

एवमेष जगत्सृष्टिं कुरुते मायया प्रभुः । न जानाति विरूढात्मा कारणं चात्मनो ह्यसौ ॥

evameṣa jagatsṛṣṭiṃ kurute māyayā prabhuḥ | na jānāti virūḍhātmā kāraṇaṃ cātmano hyasau

"Thus this Lord makes the creation of the world by his power of illusion. He whose self has grown thick does not know the cause of his own self."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0104-0105): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged.

Verse 43 (12.227.43)

ध्याता द्रष्टा तथा मन्ता बोद्धा दृष्टान्स एव सः । को विद्वान्परमात्मानमनन्तं लोकभावनम् । यत्तु शक्यं मया प्रोक्तं गच्छध्वं मुनिपुंगवाः ॥

dhyātā draṣṭā tathā mantā boddhā dṛṣṭānsa eva saḥ | ko vidvānparamātmānamanantaṃ lokabhāvanam | yattu śakyaṃ mayā proktaṃ gacchadhvaṃ munipuṃgavāḥ

"He alone is the meditator, the seer, the thinker, and the knower of what is seen. Who, however learned, can know the Supreme Self, endless, the sustainer of the worlds? What could be said, I have said; go, bulls among sages."

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0106-0108): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged. The CE prints this as three lines; all three are kept. The CE's heading "bhīṣma uvāca" is printed at line 0108 and heads the next verse (0109), so the speech of Sanatkumara ends with this verse.

Verse 44 (12.227.44)

एवं प्रणम्य विप्रेन्द्रा ज्ञानसागरसंभवम् । सनत्कुमारं संदृष्ट्वा जग्मुस्ते रुचिरं पुनः ॥

evaṃ praṇamya viprendrā jñānasāgarasaṃbhavam | sanatkumāraṃ saṃdṛṣṭvā jagmuste ruciraṃ punaḥ

Having thus bowed to Sanatkumara, who was born of the ocean of knowledge, and having gazed upon him, those chiefs of brahmins went again to their pleasant dwelling.

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0109-0110): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged.

Verse 45 (12.227.45)

तस्मात्त्वमपि कौन्तेय ज्ञानयोगपरो भव । ज्ञानमेव महाराज सर्वदुःखविनाशनम् ॥

tasmāttvamapi kaunteya jñānayogaparo bhava | jñānameva mahārāja sarvaduḥkhavināśanam

Therefore you too, son of Kunti, be devoted to the discipline of knowledge. Knowledge alone, great king, destroys all sorrow.

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0111-0112): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged.

Verse 46 (12.227.46)

इदं महादुःखसमाकराणां । नृणां परित्राणविनिर्मितं पुरा । पुराणपुंसा ऋषिणा महात्मना । महामुनीनां प्रवरेण तद्ध्रुवम् ॥

idaṃ mahāduḥkhasamākarāṇāṃ | nṛṇāṃ paritrāṇavinirmitaṃ purā | purāṇapuṃsā ṛṣiṇā mahātmanā | mahāmunīnāṃ pravareṇa taddhruvam

This was fashioned long ago for the protection of men, the mines of great sorrow, by the ancient Person, the great-souled sage, the foremost of great sages. That is certain.

Note on the text: Restored from the critical edition's inline Appendix I passage 20 (12.214.016d@020, lines 0113-0116): not in the critical edition's constituted text and not on any Wikisource page (see verse 1). Written in Devanagari with the critical edition's words unchanged. The CE prints this verse as four short lines (quarters); all four are kept. The CE's heading "yudhiṣṭhira uvāca" is printed at line 0116 and heads the next passage (0117 onward, the opening of Wikisource 228), so this verse is the last of Wikisource 227.