The Forest of the Material Enjoyment
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- tvayoditaṁ vyaktam avipralabdhaṁ
- bhartuḥ sa me syād yadi vīra bhāraḥ
- dyantavad yad vikṛtasya dṛṣṭam
- gatasya me vīra cikitsitena
- kas tvaṁ nigūḍhaś carasi dvijānāṁ
- vijñāna-vīryo vicarasy apāraḥ
- bhartur gantur bhavataś cānumanye
- stābhigoptā nṛpatiḥ prajānāṁ
- na vikriyā viśva-suhṛt-sakhasya
- vitāna-vidyoru-vijṛmbhiteṣu
- yāvan mano rajasā pūruṣasya
- kālopapannaṁ phalam āvyanakti
- kṣemāya nairguṇyam atho manaḥ syāt
- gandhākṛti-sparśa-rasa-śravāṁsi
- kṣetrajña etā manaso vibhūtīr
- sva-māyayātmany avadhīyamānaḥ
- vidhūya māyāṁ vayunodayena
- upekṣayādhyedhitam apramattaḥ
- Jaḍa Bharata Refutes the King’s Arguments
- I will later tell you my topics of doubt. Now please explain what you have said about adhyātma-yoga, making it easy to understand, since I am inquisitive.
- ocyān imāṁs tvam adhikaṣṭa-dīnān
- evaṁ niruktaṁ kṣiti-śabda-vṛttam
- pratyak praśāntaṁ bhagavac-chabda-saṁjñaṁ
- rahūgaṇaitat tapasā na yāti
- vimukta-dṛṣṭa-śruta-saṅga-bandhaḥ
- The Forest of the Material Enjoyment
- prabhūta-vīrut-tṛṇa-gulma-gahvare
- kvacid vitoyāḥ sarito 'bhiyāti
- kvacin nigīrṇo 'jagarāhinā jano
- ayyāsana-sthāna-vihāra-hīnaḥ
- mṛdhe śayīran na tu tad vrajanti
- tair vañcito haṁsa-kulaṁ samāviśann
- punaś ca sārthaṁ praviśaty arindama
- hatāṁhaso bhaktir adhokṣaje 'malā
- Explanation of the Forest of Enjoyment
- tatra ca kvacid ātapodaka-nibhān viṣayān upadhāvati pāna-bhojana-vyavāyādi-vyasana-lolupaḥ.
- In that city, full of desire, addicted to drinking eating, and sex life, he chases after sense objects, like a mirage of water.
- ekadāsat-prasaṅgān nikṛta-matir vyudaka-srotaḥ-skhalanavad ubhayato 'pi duḥkhadaṁ pākhaṇḍam abhiyāti.
- yadā tu para-bādhayāndha ātmane nopanamati tadā hi pitṛ-putra-barhiṣmataḥ pitṛ-putrān vā sa khalu bhakṣayati.
- Sometimes he experiences the happiness of a dream out of strong desire, thinking that his dead father or grandfather has appeared.
- atha ca tasmād ubhayathāpi hi karmāsminn ātmanaḥ saṁsārāvapanam udāharanti.
- Unable to counteract the conditions of suffering arising from body, mind, other beings, cold and wind, he becomes depressed by severe anxieties.
- kvacid drumavad aihikārtheṣu gṛheṣu raṁsyan yathā vānaraḥ suta-dāra-vatsalo vyavāya-kṣaṇaḥ.
- evam adhvany avarundhāno mṛtyu-gaja-bhayāt tamasi giri-kandara-prāye.
- evaṁ vitta-vyatiṣaṅga-vivṛddha-vairānubandho 'pi pūrva-vāsanayā mitha udvahaty athāpavahati.
- rṣabhasyeha rājarṣer
- yo dustyajān dāra-sutān
- yajñāya dharma-pataye vidhi-naipuṇāya
- The Dynasty from Ṛṣabha
- tasyemāṁ gāthāṁ pāṇḍaveya purāvida upagāyanti.
The Forest of the Material Enjoyment
|| 5.13.1 ||
brāhmaṇa uvāca
duratyaye 'dhvany ajayā niveśito
rajas-tamaḥ-sattva-vibhakta-karmadṛk
sa eṣa sārtho 'rtha-paraḥ paribhraman
bhavāṭavīṁ yāti na śarma vindati
Jaḍa Bharata said: The merchant who sees only obligation to scriptural actions divided into rajas, tamas and sattva, who, out of ignorance, is fixed on the path of material enjoyment, difficult to cross, and who is absorbed in material acquisition, while wandering about, comes to the forest of material life but cannot enjoy happiness.
In the Thirteenth Chapter, by describing the forest of the material world, Bharata puts the King on the horse of detachment so that the King will cross over it. The last verse of the previous chapter mentioned crossing over material life. What is that path and what is the traveler on the path? This chapter answers.
He sees the activities divided into tamas, rajas and sattva as obligatory because of ignorance (ajayā) on the difficult to cross path of pravṛtti-marga (adhvani). Sārthaḥ is well known as a wealthy merchant. Medinī says sārtho vaṇika-samūhe syāt: sārtha means a gathering of merchants. All the jīvas in the world are like merchants, interested in material acquisition (artha-paraḥ). The explanation of all these terms will be given in the next chapter. However to make understanding easier, some explanation is given here.
|| 5.13.2 ||
yasyām ime ṣaṇ nara-deva dasyavaḥ
sārthaṁ vilumpanti kunāyakaṁ balāt
gomāyavo yatra haranti sārthikaṁ
pramattam āviśya yathoraṇaṁ vṛkāḥ
O King! In the forest, the six plunderers plunder the merchant who has received bad advice. In that forest, the jackals enter his house by force and plunder the inattentive merchant just as wolves steal sheep.
The plunderers are the senses. They plunder wealth from the jīva whose intelligence is like a bad chariot driver (ku-nāyakam), though the wealth is actually meant for serving the Lord, but is used for his enjoyment. Wife and sons who are like jackals plunder the merchant who is inattentive to spiritual goals (pramattam) and possesses a treasure of food and clothing. Āviśya means “they enter his heart which is like a house.” Uraṇam means sheep.
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