Vyas
Vyasa ( 6th Century BC) was a sage and Sanskrit epic poet of ancient India. He was also considered the mythical author of several Hindu mythological texts including the Vedas and the Puranas, and wrote the Brahmasutra and the Mahabharata, and precisely for this reason, he is called Vodovyas. He was the son of a Brahman and a girl of the fisher class. His father's name was Parashar. Satyavati was his mother. He is also known as Krishna Dvaipayan, and Badrayan. He is one of the most revered of saints is all the Hindu traditions.He and his disciples collected all the sacred texts first and grouped them in four Vedas. Then the old stories were collected and eighteen Puranas were compiled. After that hes started to write on the contemporary things which were first completed by the name Jay. This Jay became Bharat when retold by his disciple Shampayan to Janmejay. The same story was retold by another great sage Sut in the 12 years religious gathering of Namisharanya. After that it became the Mahabharata as it is available now. Numerous Hindu religious texts are attributed to him.
The Mahabharata, which is considered as the longest epic in the world, contains nearly 100,000 stanzas. Many other works are said to have composed by Vyasa, but the fact is that many writers composed them and attributed to him.
According to old theories, the Mahabharata events took place around 3102 BC, but new archaelogical findings suggests that it happened sometime in 9th Century BC. Srimad Bhagavadgita is a part of the Mahabharata.
Wisdom & Quotes
- A man should first choose a king , then his wife,
for without a king in the world
where would wife and property be?
-Mahabharata
- A king should not attempt
for who revers the king
who wins unrighteous victory?
Unrighteous conquest is impermanent,
and does not lead to heaven.
- Mahabharata
- Grief of the man who loses all his wealth,
grief of a wife who has lost her lord
and of him whom the king has made captive;
grief of a childless woman,
and of him who feels the breath of a tiger at his back;
grief of the wife whose husband has married another woman,
and of one convicted by witnesses in court -
these griefs are all alike.
-Mahabharata
- The wife is half the man,
the root of the three ends of life,
and of all that will help him in the other world.
With a wife a man does mighty deeds...
With a wife a man finds courage ...
A wife is the safest refuge...
A man aflame with sorrow in his soul,
or sick with disease, finds comfort in his wife,
as a man parched with feat
finds relief in water.
Even a man in the grip of rage
will not be harsh to a woman
remembering that on her depend
the joys of love, happiness, and virtue.
For woman is the everlasting field,
in which the self is born.
-Mahabharata
- Now I will tell the chief of my holy powers...
I am the self in the inmost heart of all that are born...
I am their beginning, their middle, and their end...
I am the beginning, the middle, the end , of all creation,
the science of the soul among sciences,
of speakers I am the speech,
of letters I am A ( the first letter of Sanskrit alphabet).
I am unending time,
I am the ordainer who faces all ways,
I am destroying death,
I am the source of all that is to be...
I am the dice-play of the gamester,
I am the glory of the glorious,
I am victory, I am courage,
I am the goodness of the virtuous...
I am the force of those who govern,
I am the statecraft of those who seek to conquer,
I am the silence of what is secret,
I am the knowledge of those who know,
and I am the seed of all that is born...
There is nothing that exist without me,
There is no end to my holy power...
And whatever is mighty or fortunate or strong
springs from a portion of my glory.
-Srimadbhagvadgeeta
- In essence I am never born, I never alter,
and the full master of my own nature,
yet of my own power I come to be.
Whenever the Sacred Law fails, and evil raises its head,
I take embodied birth.
To guard the righteous and root out the sinners,
and to establish the Sacred Law,
I am born from age to age.
-Srimadbhagvadgeeta
- If any worshipper do reverence with faith to any god whatever,
and in that faith he reverence his god,
and gains his desires,
for it is I who bestow them.
-Srimadbhagvadgeeta
- He who thinks this soul is the slayer
do not understand,
It neither slays nor is it slain.
It is never born and it never dies,
nor, once it exists, does it cease to be,
Unborn, eternal, abiding and ancient,
It is not slain when the body is slain...
As a man puts off his worn out clothes
and puts on other new ones,
so the embodied puts off worn out bodies
and goes to others that are new.
Weapons do not cleave it,
fire does not burn it,
waters do not wet it,
wind does not dry it.
It cannot be cleft or burnt,
or wetted or dried,
It is everlasting, it dwells in all things,
firm, unmoving, eternal...
To be born is certain death,
to the dead, birth is certain.
It is not right that you should sorrow
for what cannot be avoided...
If you do not fight this just battle
you will fail in your own law
and in your honour,
and you will incur sin.
-Srimadbhagvadgeeta
- There is nothing in the three worlds which I need,
nothing which I must get -
and yet I labour forever.
If I did not always work unwearying...
men would follow my ways.
The worlds would perish if I did not work -
I should bring back chaos, and all beings would suffer.
So, as the unwise work with attachment,
the wise should work without attachment,
O, son of Bharata,
and seek to establish order in the world...
Cast all your acts upon me,
with your mind on the Highest Soul.
Have done with craving and selfhood,
Throw off your terror and fight!
For there is more joy in doing one's own duty badly
than in doing another man's duty well.
It is joy to die in doing one's duty,
but doing another man's duty brings dread.
-Srimadbhaagvadgeeta
- What is work? And what is not work? These are questions that perplex the wisest of men.
Valmiki