13. Chapter 13

काल उवाच । एतासां भूतजातीनामूर्मीणामिव सागरात् । विविधानां विचित्राणां लतानामिव माधवे ॥ १ ॥

kāla uvāca | etāsāṃ bhūtajātīnāmūrmīṇāmiva sāgarāt | vividhānāṃ vicitrāṇāṃ latānāmiva mādhave || 1 ||

Yama said:—Among these various species of living creatures, which resemble the waves of the ocean, and are as numerous as the plants and creepers of spring:—

भव्या जितमनोमोहा दृष्टलोकपरावराः । जीवन्मुक्ता भ्रमन्तीह यक्षगन्धर्वकिंनराः ॥ २ ॥

bhavyā jitamanomohā dṛṣṭalokaparāvarāḥ | jīvanmuktā bhramantīha yakṣagandharvakiṃnarāḥ || 2 ||

There are some persons among the Yakshas, Gandharvas and Kinnaras, who have overcome the errors of their minds, and have well considered every thing before and after them; that have become perfect in their lives, and passing as the living liberated persons in this world.

अन्ये तु काष्ठकुड्याभा मूढाः स्थावरजगमाः । अपरे क्षीणमोहास्ते किं तेषां प्रविचार्यते ॥ ३ ॥

anye tu kāṣṭhakuḍyābhā mūḍhāḥ sthāvarajagamāḥ | apare kṣīṇamohāste kiṃ teṣāṃ pravicāryate || 3 ||

Others there are among the moving and unmoving, that are as unconscious of themselves as wood and stone; and many that are worn out with error, and are incapable of judging for themselves.

लोके प्रबुध्यमानानां भूतानामात्मसिद्धये । विहरन्तीह शास्त्राणि कल्पितान्युदितात्मभिः ॥ ४ ॥

loke prabudhyamānānāṃ bhūtānāmātmasiddhaye | viharantīha śāstrāṇi kalpitānyuditātmabhiḥ || 4 ||

But those that are awakened to sense, have the rich mine of the sastras, framed by the enlightened, for the guidance of their souls.

संप्रबुद्धाशया ये तु दुष्कृतानां परिक्षये । तेषां शास्त्रविचारेषु निर्मला धीः प्रवर्तते ॥ ५ ॥

saṃprabuddhāśayā ye tu duṣkṛtānāṃ parikṣaye | teṣāṃ śāstravicāreṣu nirmalā dhīḥ pravartate || 5 ||

Those who are awakened to sense, and whose sins are washed off; have their understandings purified by the light of the sastras.

विलीयते मनोमोहः सच्छास्त्रप्रविचारणात् । नभोविहरणाद्भानोः शार्वरं तिमिरं यथा ॥ ५ ॥

vilīyate manomohaḥ sacchāstrapravicāraṇāt | nabhoviharaṇādbhānoḥ śārvaraṃ timiraṃ yathā || 5 ||

Those who are awakened to sense, and whose sins are washed off; have their understandings purified by the light of the sastras.

अक्षीयमाणं हि मनो मोहायैव न सिद्धये । नीहार इव संछाद्य वेताल इव वल्गति ॥ ७ ॥

akṣīyamāṇaṃ hi mano mohāyaiva na siddhaye | nīhāra iva saṃchādya vetāla iva valgati || 7 ||

Those who have not succeeded to dispel the errors of their minds, have darkened their understandings by a mist of ignorance; like the frosty sky of winter, and they find the phantoms of their error, dancing as demons before their eyes.

सर्वेषामेव देहानां सुखदुःखार्थभाजनम् । शरीरं मन एवेह नतु मांसमयं मुने ॥ ८ ॥

sarveṣāmeva dehānāṃ sukhaduḥkhārthabhājanam | śarīraṃ mana eveha natu māṃsamayaṃ mune || 8 ||

All living bodies are subject to pain and pleasure; but it is the mind which constitutes the body, and not the flesh.

योऽयं मांसास्थिसंघातो दृश्यते पाञ्चभौतिकः । मनोविकल्पनं विद्धि न देहः परमार्थतः ॥ ९ ॥

yo'yaṃ māṃsāsthisaṃghāto dṛśyate pāñcabhautikaḥ | manovikalpanaṃ viddhi na dehaḥ paramārthataḥ || 9 ||

The body that is seen to be composed of flesh and bones and the five elemental parts, is a creation of the imagination of the mind, and has no substantiality in it.

मनःशरीरेण तव पुत्रोऽयं कृतवान्मुने । तदेव प्राप्तवानाशु वयं नात्रापराधिनः ॥ १० ॥

manaḥśarīreṇa tava putro'yaṃ kṛtavānmune | tadeva prāptavānāśu vayaṃ nātrāparādhinaḥ || 10 ||

What your son had thought of in his mental body (manas-sarira), the same he found in the same body; and was not accountable to any body for aught or whatever passed in his mind.

स्वया वासनया लोको यद्यत्कर्म करोति यः । स तथैव तदाप्नोति नेतरस्येह कर्तृता ॥ ११ ॥

svayā vāsanayā loko yadyatkarma karoti yaḥ | sa tathaiva tadāpnoti netarasyeha kartṛtā || 11 ||

Whatever acts a man wills to do in his own mind, the same comes to take place in a short time; and there is no other (foreign) agency of anybody else required to bring them about.

स्वानुसंहितमन्तर्यन्मनोवासनया स्वया । को नाम भुवनेशोऽस्ति तत्कर्तुं यस्य शक्तता ॥ १२ ॥

svānusaṃhitamantaryanmanovāsanayā svayā | ko nāma bhuvaneśo'sti tatkartuṃ yasya śaktatā || 12 ||

Whatever the mind doth in a moment and of its own accord, and actuated by its own will or desire, there is no body in the world, who has the power to do or undo the same at any time.

ये सर्गा नरकाभोगा या जन्ममरणैषणाः । स्वप्नमनोमननेनेदं स निष्पन्दोऽपि दुःखदः ॥ १३ ॥

ye sargā narakābhogā yā janmamaraṇaiṣaṇāḥ | svapnamanomananenedaṃ sa niṣpando'pi duḥkhadaḥ || 13 ||

The suffering of hell torments and enjoyment of heavenly bliss, and the thoughts of birth and death; are all fabrications of the mind; which labours under these thoughts.

बहुनात्र किमुक्तेन शब्दसंग्रहकारिणा । उत्तिष्ठ भगवन्यामो यत्र ते तनयः स्थितः ॥ १४ ॥

bahunātra kimuktena śabdasaṃgrahakāriṇā | uttiṣṭha bhagavanyāmo yatra te tanayaḥ sthitaḥ || 14 ||

What need I to tell more in the manner of verbose writers (on this subject), than go together at once, to the place where your son is situated.

सर्वं चित्तशरीरेण भुक्त्वा शुक्रः क्षणादिव । तथेन्दुरश्मिसंघट्टात्समङ्गातापसः स्थितः ॥ ११ ॥

sarvaṃ cittaśarīreṇa bhuktvā śukraḥ kṣaṇādiva | tathenduraśmisaṃghaṭṭātsamaṅgātāpasaḥ sthitaḥ || 11 ||

Whatever acts a man wills to do in his own mind, the same comes to take place in a short time; and there is no other (foreign) agency of anybody else required to bring them about.

तत्प्राणपवनश्चित्तान्मुक्त इन्द्वंशुवत्फलम् । अवश्यायतया भूत्वा वीर्यं तेनान्तरास्थितः ॥ १६ ॥

tatprāṇapavanaścittānmukta indvaṃśuvatphalam | avaśyāyatayā bhūtvā vīryaṃ tenāntarāsthitaḥ || 16 ||

His vital breath having fled from his heart, became as the moonbeam sparkling in a dew drop, which entered the uterus in the form of semen virilis.

इत्युक्त्वा भगवान्कालो हसन्निव जगद्गतिम् । हस्ताद्धस्तेन जग्राह भृगुमिन्दुमिवांशुमान् ॥ १७ ॥

ityuktvā bhagavānkālo hasanniva jagadgatim | hastāddhastena jagrāha bhṛgumindumivāṃśumān || 17 ||

Saying so, the lord of death smiled to think of the course of nature, and taking hold of Bhrigu's hand in his own, they both departed as the sun and moon together.

अहो नु चित्रा नियतेर्व्यवस्थेति वदंछनैः । भगवान्भृगुरुत्तस्थावुदयाद्रेर्यथा रविः ॥ १८ ॥

aho nu citrā niyatervyavastheti vadaṃchanaiḥ | bhagavānbhṛguruttasthāvudayādreryathā raviḥ || 18 ||

O wonderful is the law of nature! said Bhrigu slowly to himself, and then rose higher and higher, as the sun ascends above his rising mountain.

तेजोनिधी ह सममङ्ग समुत्थितौ तौ भातस्तदाम्बरतले सतमालजाले । तुल्योदयाविव नभस्यमले विहर्तुमभ्युत्थितौ सजलदौ सकलेन्दुसूर्यौ ॥ १९ ॥

tejonidhī ha samamaṅga samutthitau tau bhātastadāmbaratale satamālajāle | tulyodayāviva nabhasyamale vihartumabhyutthitau sajaladau sakalendusūryau || 19 ||

With their luminous bodies, they arrived at the spot of Samanga, and shone on high above the tamala trees below. Their simultaneous rising in the clear firmament, made them appear as the sun rising with the full-moon over the cloudy horizon.

श्रीवाल्मीकिरुवाच । इत्युक्तवत्यथ मुनौ दिवसो जगाम सायतनाय विधयेऽस्तमिनो जगाम । स्नातुं सभा कृतनमस्करणा जगाम श्यामाक्षये रविकरैश्च सहाजगाम ॥ २० ॥

śrīvālmīkiruvāca | ityuktavatyatha munau divaso jagāma sāyatanāya vidhaye'stamino jagāma | snātuṃ sabhā kṛtanamaskaraṇā jagāma śyāmākṣaye ravikaraiśca sahājagāma || 20 ||

Valmiki said:—As the muni (Vasishtha) was telling these things, the sun went down his setting mountain, and the day departed to its evening service. The court broke with mutual salutations, to perform their evening rites and observances, after which they joined the assembly at the dawn of the next day.{GL_NOTE:73144:}