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तुलाधार उवाच सद्भिर्वा यदि वासद्भिरयं पन्थाः समाश्रितः प्रत्यक्षं क्रियतां साधु ततो ज्ञास्यसि तद्यथा
M. N. Dutt: Tuladhara said See with your own eyes, O Jajali, who, amongst the good or otherwise, have followed this path of duty which I have spoken of! You will understand properly how the truth stands.
एते शकुन्ता बहवः समन्ताद्विचरन्ति हि तवोत्तमाङ्गे संभूताः श्येनाश्चान्याश्च जातयः
M. N. Dutt: See, many birds are roving in the sky! Amongst them are those who were brought up on your head, as also many hawks and many others of different kinds.
आह्वयैनान्महाब्रह्मन्विशमानांस्ततस्ततः पश्येमान्हस्तपादेषु श्लिष्टान्देहे च सर्वशः
M. N. Dutt: See, O Brahmana, those birds have got their wings and legs for entering their respective nests. Call them, O twice-born one.
संभावयन्ति पितरं त्वया संभाविताः खगाः असंशयं पिता च त्वं पुत्रानाह्वय जाजले
M. N. Dutt: There, those birds, treated affectionately by you, are showing their love for you who are their father! Forsooth, you are their father, O Jajali! Do you call your children!
भीष्म उवाच ततो जाजलिना तेन समाहूताः पतत्रिणः वाचमुच्चारयन्दिव्यां धर्मस्य वचनात्किल
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma continued-Then those birds, summoned by Jajali, answered according to the dictates of that religion which preaches abstention from injury to any creature.
अहिंसादिकृतं कर्म इह चैव परत्र च स्पर्धा निहन्ति वै ब्रह्मन्साहता हन्ति तं नरम्
M. N. Dutt: All acts that done without injuring any creature come to use both here and hereafter. Those acts, however, that injure others, destroy faith, and faith being destroyed, brings ruin on the destroyer.
श्रद्धावृद्धं वाङ्मनसी न यज्ञस्त्रातुमर्हति अत्र गाथा ब्रह्मगीताः कीर्तयन्ति पुराविदः
AI Translation: The sacrifice is not able to protect the one who has grown in faith, whose speech and mind are not controlled. Here the knowers of the past recite the verses sung by Brahma:
शुचेरश्रद्दधानस्य श्रद्दधानस्य चाशुचेः देवाश्चित्तममन्यन्त सदृशं यज्ञकर्मणि
AI Translation: The gods thought that the mind of the pure and the faithful was the same as that of the impure and the faithful, in the performance of the sacrifice.
श्रोत्रियस्य कदर्यस्य वदान्यस्य च वार्धुषेः मीमांसित्वोभयं देवाः सममन्नमकल्पयन्
AI Translation: The gods have equally allotted food to the learned and the miserly, to the generous and the miserly, to the contemplative and the non-contemplative.
प्रजापतिस्तानुवाच विषमं कृतमित्युत श्रद्धापूतं वदान्यस्य हतमश्रद्धयेतरत् भोज्यमन्नं वदान्यस्य कदर्यस्य न वार्धुषेः
M. N. Dutt: The supreme Lord of all creatures, then told them that they had committed a mistake, The food of a liberal person is purified by Faith. The food, however, of the person who has Faith is lost for such want of Faith. The food of a liberal usurer can be accepted but not the food of a miser.
अश्रद्दधान एवैको देवानां नार्हते हविः तस्यैवान्नं न भोक्तव्यमिति धर्मविदो विदुः
M. N. Dutt: Only one person in the world viz., he who has no Faith, is unfit to make offerings to the gods. The food of only such a man is unfit to be eaten. This is the opinion of men who know duties.
अश्रद्धा परमं पापं श्रद्धा पापप्रमोचनी जहाति पापं श्रद्धावान्सर्पो जीर्णामिव त्वचम्
M. N. Dutt: Want of Faith is a great sin. Faith is a purifier of sins. Like a snake casting off its slough, the man of Faith succeeds in shaking off all his sins.
ज्यायसी या पवित्राणां निवृत्तिः श्रद्धया सह निवृत्तशीलदोषो यः श्रद्धावान्पूत एव सः
M. N. Dutt: The religion of abstention with Faith is superior to all shortcomings of conduct, he who follows Faith, becomes purified.
किं तस्य तपसा कार्यं किं वृत्तेन किमात्मना श्रद्धामयोऽयं पुरुषो यो यच्छ्रद्धः स एव सः
M. N. Dutt: What need has such a person of penances, or of conduct, or of endurance? Every man has Faith. Faith, however, is of three sorts, viz., as partaking of the nature of the qualities of goodness, darkness, and ignorance, and according to the nature of Faith which one has, one is named.
इति धर्मः समाख्यातः सद्भिर्धर्मार्थदर्शिभिः वयं जिज्ञासमानास्त्वा संप्राप्ता धर्मदर्शनात्
M. N. Dutt: Person gifted with goodness and endued with insight into the true import of morality have thus described the subject of duties. We have, on enquiry, got all this from the sage Dharınadarshana.
स्पर्धां जहि महाप्राज्ञ ततः प्राप्स्यसि यत्परम् श्रद्धावाञ्श्रद्दधानश्च धर्मांश्चैवेह वाणिजः स्ववर्त्मनि स्थितश्चैव गरीयानेष जाजले
M. N. Dutt: O you of great wisdom, adopt Faith, for you will then acquire what is superior. He who believes (in the sayings of the Shrutis), and who acts according to their sense, is, indeed, of righteous soul. O Jajali, he who follows his own path is surely a superior person.
एवं बहुमतार्थं च तुलाधारेण भाषितम् सम्यक्चैवमुपालब्धो धर्मश्चोक्तः सनातनः
AI Translation: Thus the meaning of the many revered ones was spoken by Tūlādhara. And thus the eternal Dharma was spoken, being properly reproved.
तस्य विख्यातवीर्यस्य श्रुत्वा वाक्यानि स द्विजः तुलाधारस्य कौन्तेय शान्तिमेवान्वपद्यत
AI Translation: Having heard the words of that one of renowned valor, the brahmin found peace, O son of Kunti, in the presence of Tulādhara.
ततोऽचिरेण कालेन तुलाधारः स एव च दिवं गत्वा महाप्राज्ञौ विहरेतां यथासुखम् स्वं स्वं स्थानमुपागम्य स्वकर्मफलनिर्जितम्
M. N. Dutt: Bhishma said After a short time Tuladhara and Jajali, both of whom had been gifted with great wisdom, ascended to heaven and played there in great happiness, having reached their respective places won by their respective deeds. Tuladhara had spoken many truths of this sort.
समानां श्रद्दधानानां संयतानां सुचेतसाम् कुर्वतां यज्ञ इत्येव न यज्ञो जातु नेष्यते
AI Translation: For those who have faith, are restrained, and have good thoughts, those who perform sacrifices, it is always said that there is a sacrifice.
श्रद्धा वै सात्त्विकी देवी सूर्यस्य दुहिता नृप सावित्री प्रसवित्री च जीवविश्वासिनी तथा
AI Translation: O king, the goddess of faith is the daughter of the sun. She is Savitri, Prasavitri, and the bestower of life and confidence.
वाग्वृद्धं त्रायते श्रद्धा मनोवृद्धं च भारत यथौपम्योपदेशेन किं भूयः श्रोतुमिच्छसि
AI Translation: O descendant of Bharata, faith protects one who has increased his speech, and the mind which has increased.