Shanti Parva Adhyaya 190 Shloka 16 - Mahabharata | Thai | Vedapath

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Shloka 16

Jāpakānāṃ Gatiḥ — The Destinies of Japa-Practitioners (Śānti Parva 12.190)

Devanagari script

अविस्रम्भे न गन्तव्यं विस्रम्भे धारयेन्मन: । मन: प्राणे निगृह्नलीयात्‌ प्राणं ब्रह्मणि धारयेत्‌

Transliteration

aviśrambhe na gantavyaṃ viśrambhe dhārayen manaḥ | manaḥ prāṇe nigṛhṇīyāt prāṇaṃ brahmaṇi dhārayet |

Translation

อย่าเดินไปในหนทางที่ไร้ความไว้วางใจ; ณ ที่ซึ่งความไว้วางใจตั้งอยู่ถูกต้อง จงทำจิตให้มั่นคงที่นั่น แล้วควบคุมจิตให้รวมลงในลมหายใจชีวิต (ปราณะ) และตั้งปราณะไว้ในพรหมัน

Word by Word

अविस्रम्भेin (a state of) distrust / where there is no trust

नnot

गन्तव्यम्should be gone / one should go

विस्रम्भेin trust / in confidence

धारयेत्should hold / should fix

मनःthe mind

प्राणेin the vital breath / in prāṇa

निगृह्णीयात्should restrain / should control

प्राणम्the vital breath / prāṇa

ब्रह्मणिin Brahman

धारयेत्should place / should fix

Speaker

भरद्वाज उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bharadvāja

manas

prāṇa

Brahman

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Exercise discernment about whom and what to trust in worldly conduct, and then turn inward: steady the mind, restrain it by anchoring it in the breath, and finally establish the breath (life-force) in Brahman—moving from ethical prudence to meditative absorption.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction-oriented setting, Bharadvāja delivers a concise counsel that links practical dharma (not acting where trust is absent) with yogic discipline (mind into breath, breath into Brahman), presenting a graded method of inner stabilization.