किं वेदैः स्मृतिभिः पुराणपठनैः शास्त्रैर्महाविस्तरैः
स्वर्गग्रामकुटीनिवासफलदैः कर्मक्रियाविभ्रमैः।
मुक्त्यैकं भवदुःखभाररचनाविध्यंसिकालानलं
स्वात्मानन्दपदप्रवेशकलनं शेषाः वणिग्वृत्तयः॥
इन्दिश्चे स्प्रुचे ६६४ भर्तृहरेः
kiṁ vedaiḥ smṛtibhiḥ purāṇapaṭhanaiḥ śāstrairmahāvistaraiḥ
svargagrāmakuṭīnivāsaphaladaiḥ karmakriyāvibhramaiḥ|
muktyaikaṁ bhavaduḥkhabhāraracanāvidhyaṁsikālānalaṁ
svātmānandapadapraveśakalanaṁ śeṣāḥ vaṇigvṛttayaḥ||
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What is the use ultimately if you study Vedas ? What do you really gain by studying the smrithis What is the exact benefit of reciting Puranas What exactly are you going to gain by learning sciences, their texts, commentaries and glosses, ग्राम What is the real benefit in meticulously following the daily rituals prescribed by scripture, the rituals that would at best ensure you a small but temporary space in the remotest corner of a hamlet called heaven ?
The path to emancipation and eternal bliss, can arise only through constant meditation and contemplation of the Surpeme Brahman within yourself, the eternal contemplation that would burn away like the intense fire at the deluge the burden of worldy woes accumulated by us over multiple lifespans through evil karmas, the contemplation that kindles and spokes and gives entry to the utlimate aanandam or bliss within our inner core and leads us to such freedom
Bhartruhari at his Philosophical best.
वेदैः किं What is the use ultimately if you study Vedas ? स्मृतिभिः किं What do you really gain by studying the smrithis पुराण पठनैः किं What is the exact benefit of reciting Puranas महाविस्तरैः शास्त्रैः किं What exactly are you going to gain by learning sciences, their texts, commentaries and glosses, स्वर्ग ग्राम कुटी निवास फलदैः कर्म क्रिया विभ्रमैः किं What is the real benefit in meticulously following the daily rituals prescribed by scripture, the rituals that would at best ensure you a small but temporary space in the remotest corner of a hamlet called heaven ? भव दुःख भार the heavy burden of worldly woes रचना accumulationof विध्वंसि destroyer कालानलं the fire at the time of deluge स्वात्मानन्द the ecstacy arising in one’s own inner core पद status प्रवेश entry कलनं contemplation ( meditation on the supreme one ) एकं एव the only one way मुक्तिः भवति path to final emancipation and eternal bliss