Sanatsugatiya
| Introduction To Sanatsugatiya |
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The Sanatsugatiya, is, like the Bhagavadgita, one of the numerous episodes of the Mahabharata 1. It is true, that it, has never commanded anything like that unbounded veneration which has always been paid in India to the Bhagavadgita.
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| Chapter I |
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Dhritarashtra said : If, O Vidura! there is anything not (yet) said by you in (your) discourse, then do impart it to me who wish to hear, for you have spoken marvellous (things).
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| Chapter II |
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Vaisampayana said : Then the talented king, Dhritarâshtra, bowed to those words uttered by Vidura, and, in a secluded place, interrogated Sanatsugâta regarding the highest knowledge, wishing to become (a) high-souled (man).
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| Chapter III |
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Dhritarashtra said : Who possesses this taciturnity, and which of the two is taciturnity? Describe, O learned person! the condition of taciturnity here. Does a learned man reach taciturnity by taciturnity? And how, O sage! do they practise taciturnity in this world.
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| Chapter IV |
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Dhritarashtra said : O Sanatsugata! since you have spoken these words of highest significance, relating to the Brahman, and of numerous forms, give me that advice which is excellent, and difficult to obtain in the midst of these created objects 1. Such is my request, O youth!
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| Chapter V |
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Grief and wrath, and avarice, desire, delusion, laziness, want of forgiveness, vanity, craving, friendship, censoriousness, and reviling others--these twelve great enormities are destructive of a man's life.
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| Chapter VI |
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That pure, great light which is radiant; that great glory ; that, verily, which the gods worship ; that by means of which the sun shines forth -- that eternal divine being is perceived by devotees.
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