Mahabharata · Yaksa Prasna (Vana Parva, vulgate ed.)

Mahabharata 3.313.99-100 meaning

kohankara iti proktah kash cha dambhah prakeertitah kim tad daivam param proktam kim tat paishunyam uchyate mahajnanam ahankaro dambho dharmo dhvaj-ochchrayah daivam danaphalam proktam paishunyam paradooshanam

कोऽहङ्कार इति प्रोक्तः कश्च दम्भः प्रकीर्तितः। किं तद्दैवं परं प्रोक्तं किं तत्पैशुन्यमुच्यते॥ महाज्ञानमहङ्कारो दम्भो धर्मो ध्वजोच्छ्रयः। दैवं दानफलं प्रोक्तं पैशुन्यं परदूषणम्॥

Yaksha: What is ego, what is hypocrisy, what is called fate, and what is backbiting? Yudhishthira: Ego is deep ignorance, hypocrisy is waving your goodness like a flag, fate is the fruit of what you have given, and backbiting is finding fault with others.

What it means

Goodness performed for an audience is hypocrisy. Ego is not strength but blindness. And luck is not random: what comes back to you is largely what you gave out. Spend less time tearing others down.

हिंदी में अर्थ

यक्ष: अहंकार क्या है, दंभ क्या है, भाग्य क्या है और चुगली क्या है? युधिष्ठिर: अहंकार बड़ा अज्ञान है, अपने धर्म का झंडा ऊँचा करके दिखाना दंभ है, भाग्य दिए हुए का फल है और दूसरों में दोष निकालना चुगली है।

दिखावे के लिए की गई भलाई दंभ है। अहंकार ताकत नहीं, अंधापन है। भाग्य भी अचानक नहीं, जो हमने दिया वही लौटता है। दूसरों की बुराई में समय मत गँवाओ।

Spoken by Yaksha, Yudhishthira.

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