Shloka 47

धर्मस्य बहुद्वारत्वम् — Nārada’s Audience with Indra (Śānti-parva 340)

Devanagari script

अहं हि जीवसंज्ञातो मयि जीव: समाहित: । नैवं ते बुद्धिरत्राभूद्‌ दृष्टो जीवो मयेति वै,“मैंने अपने वासुदेव, संकर्षण आदि चार स्वरूपोंका तुम्हारे सामने भलीभाँति वर्णन किया है। मैं ही जीव नामसे प्रसिद्ध हूँ, मुझमें ही जीवकी स्थिति है; परंतु तुम्हारे मनमें ऐसा विचार नहीं उठना चाहिये कि मैंने जीवको देखा है

Transliteration

ahaṁ hi jīvasaṁjñāto mayi jīvaḥ samāhitaḥ | naivaṁ te buddhir atrābhūd dṛṣṭo jīvo mayeti vai ||

Translation

Bhishma said: “I am indeed known by the name ‘jīva’ (the living self), and within me the jīva is established. Yet you should not form the notion here that ‘I have seen the jīva’—as though it were an object grasped by ordinary perception.”

Word by Word

• {'aham': 'I', 'hi': 'indeed, for', 'jīva-saṁjñātaḥ': 'known/designated as ‘jīva’', 'mayi': 'in me', 'jīvaḥ': 'the living being

• individual self', 'samāhitaḥ': 'placed, established, contained

• composed/collected', 'na': 'not', 'evaṁ': 'thus, in this manner', 'te': 'your', 'buddhiḥ': 'understanding, thought, notion', 'atra': 'here, in this context', 'abhūt': 'arose, came to be', 'dṛṣṭaḥ': 'seen, perceived', 'mayā': 'by me', 'iti': 'thus (quotative)', 'vai': 'indeed, surely (emphatic particle)'}

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• jīva