Shloka 26
अरण्यवृत्ति-वैराग्योपदेशः | Forest Discipline and the Program of Non-Attachment
नाकल्याणं न कल्याणं चिन्तयन्नुभयोस्तयो: । न तो जीवनका अभिनन्दन करूँगा, न मृत्युसे द्वेष। यदि एक मनुष्य मेरी एक बाँहको बसूलेसे काटता हो और दूसरा दूसरी बाँहको चन्दनमिश्रित जलसे सींचता हो तो न पहलेका अमंगल सोचूँगा और न दूसरेकी मंगल-कामना करूँगा। उन दोनोंके प्रति समान भाव रखूँगा ।। या: काश्चिज्जीवता शक््या: कर्तुमभ्युदयक्रिया: । सर्वास्ता: समभित्यज्य निमेषादिव्यवस्थित:,जीवित पुरुषके द्वारा जो कोई भी अभ्युदयकारी कर्म किये जा सकते हैं, उन सबका परित्याग करके केवल शरीर-निर्वाहके लिये पलकोंके खोलने-मींचने या खाने-पीने आदिके कार्यमें ही प्रवृत्त हो सकूँगा
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca |
nākalyāṇaṃ na kalyāṇaṃ cintayann ubhayos tayoḥ |
na to jīvanakaṃ abhinandanaṃ karūṅgā, na mṛtyuse dveṣa |
yadi eka manuṣya merī eka bāṃhako basūlese kāṭatā ho aura dūsarā dūsrī bāṃhako candanamiśrita jalase sīñcatā ho to na pahlekā amaṅgala socūṅgā na dūsre kī maṅgala-kāmanā karūṅgā |
un donoṃ ke prati samāna bhāva rakhūṅgā ||
yāḥ kāścid jīvatā śakyāḥ kartum abhyudayakriyāḥ |
sarvās tāḥ samabhityajya nimeṣādivyavasthitaḥ, jīvita puruṣa ke dvārā jo koī bhī abhyudayakārī karma kiye jā sakte haiṃ, un sabkā parityāga karke kevala śarīra-nirvāha ke liye palakoṃ ke kholane-mīṃcane yā khāne-pīne ādi ke kārya meṃ hī pravṛtta ho sakūṅgā |
Yudhiṣṭhira said: “I shall not brood over ill nor long for good with regard to either of the two. I will neither rejoice in life nor hate death. If one man were to cut off one of my arms with an axe, and another were to bathe my other arm with sandal-scented water, I would not wish misfortune for the first nor prosperity for the second; toward both I would maintain the same disposition. And whatever acts of worldly advancement a living man might be able to perform—abandoning them all—I could remain intent only on bare bodily maintenance, occupied merely with blinking of the eyes and with eating and drinking.”
युधिछिर उवाच