Dashak 3 · Samāsa 1

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॥ स्वगुणपरीक्षानाम दशक तिसरा ॥ ॥ समास पहिला : जन्मदुःख निरूपण ॥ जन्म दुःखाचा अंकुर । जन्म शोकाचा सागर । जन्म भयाचा डोंगर । चळेना ऐसा

|| svaguṇaparīkṣānāma daśaka tisarā || || samāsa pahilā : janmaduḥkha nirūpaṇa || janma duḥkhācā amkura | janma śokācā sāgara | janma bhayācā ḍomgara | caḷenā aisā

[Dashak 3 'Sva-guṇa-parīkṣā' — Samāsa 1 'Janma-duḥkha Nirūpaṇa' — the sorrow of birth.] Birth is the sprout of sorrow; birth is the ocean of grief; birth is a mountain of fear — unmoving so.

जन्म कर्माची आटणी । जन्म पातकाची खाणी । जन्म काळाची जाचणी । निच नवी

janma karmācī āṭaṇī | janma pātakācī khāṇī | janma kāḷācī jācaṇī | nica navī

Birth is the grinding-mill of karma; birth is the mine of sin; birth is the torment of time — ever-fresh.

जन्म कुविद्येचें फळ । जन्म लोभाचें कमळ । जन्म भ्रांतीचें पडळ । ज्ञानहीन

janma kuvidyecem phaḷa | janma lobhācem kamaḷa | janma bhrāmtīcem paḍaḷa | jñānahīna

Birth is the fruit of false-knowledge (ku-vidyā); birth is the lotus of greed; birth is the veil of delusion — devoid of knowledge.

जन्म जिवासी बंधन । जन्म मृत्यासी कारण । जन्म हेंचि अकारण । गथागोवी

janma jivāsī bamdhana | janma mṛtyāsī kāraṇa | janma hemci akāraṇa | gathāgovī

Birth is bondage to the soul; birth is the cause of death; birth is purposeless entanglement.

जन्म सुखाचा विसर । जन्म चिंतेचा आगर । जन्म वासनाविस्तार । विस्तारला

janma sukhācā visara | janma cimtecā āgara | janma vāsanāvistāra | vistāralā

Birth is the forgetting of happiness; birth is a storehouse of anxiety; birth is the expansion of tendency (vāsanā-vistāra).

जन्म जीवाची आवदसा । जन्म कल्पनेचा ठसा । जन्म लांवेचा वळसा । ममतारूप

janma jīvācī āvadasā | janma kalpanecā ṭhasā | janma lāmvecā vaḷasā | mamatārūpa

Birth is the plague of life; birth is the imprint of imagination; birth is the twist of possessiveness (mamatā).

जन्म मायेचे मैंदावें । जन्म क्रोधाचें विरावें । जन्म मोक्षास आडवें । विघ्न आहे

janma māyece maimdāvem | janma krodhācem virāvem | janma mokṣāsa āḍavem | vighna āhe

Birth is the intoxication of māyā; birth is the fermenting of anger; birth is a standing obstruction against mokṣa.

जन्म जिवाचें मीपण । जन्म अहंतेचा गुण । जन्म हेंचि विस्मरण । ईश्वराचें

janma jivācem mīpaṇa | janma ahamtecā guṇa | janma hemci vismaraṇa | īśvarācem

Birth is the soul's I-ness (mī-paṇa); birth is the quality of ego (ahamtā); birth itself is the forgetting of Īśvara.

जन्म विषयांची आवडी । जन्म दुराशेची बेडी । जन्म काळाची कांकडी । भक्षिताहे

janma viṣayāmcī āvaḍī | janma durāśecī beḍī | janma kāḷācī kāmkaḍī | bhakṣitāhe

Birth is the relish for sense-objects; birth is the chain of false-hope; birth is the fetter that Time consumes.

जन्म हाचि विषमकाळ । जन्म हेंचि वोखटी वेळ । जन्म हा अति कुश्चीळ । नर्कपतन

janma hāci viṣamakāḷa | janma hemci vokhaṭī veḷa | janma hā ati kuścīḷa | narkapatana

Birth is the unfavorable time; birth is the bad hour; birth is extremely impure — a fall toward hell (naraka-patana).

पाहातां शरीराचें मूळ । या ऐसें नाहीं अमंगळ । रजस्वलेचा जो विटाळ । त्यामध्यें जन्म यासी

pāhātām śarīrācem mūḷa | yā aisem nāhīm amamgaḷa | rajasvalecā jo viṭāḷa | tyāmadhyem janma yāsī

Considering the body's origin — nothing is as inauspicious. [The body's] beginning is in the impurity of menstrual blood.

अत्यंत दोष ज्या विटाळा । त्या विटाळाचाचि पुतळा । तेथें निर्मळपणाचा सोहळा । केवी घडे

atyamta doṣa jyā viṭāḷā | tyā viṭāḷācāci putaḷā | tethem nirmaḷapaṇācā sohaḷā | kevī ghaḍe

The impurity that is extremely flawed — an image of that very impurity [is this body]. Where then is the celebration of purity?

रजस्वलेचा जो विटाळ । त्याचा आळोन जाला गाळ । त्या गळाचेंच केवळ । शरीर हें

rajasvalecā jo viṭāḷa | tyācā āḷona jālā gāḷa | tyā gaḷācemca kevaḷa | śarīra hem

Menstrual impurity, congealed, became refuse; this body is merely the sediment of that.

वरी वरी दिसे वैभवाचें । अंतरीं पोतडें नर्काचें । जैसें झांकणें चर्मकुंडाचें । उघडितांच नये

varī varī dise vaibhavācem | amtarīm potaḍem narkācem | jaisem jhāmkaṇem carmakumḍācem | ughaḍitāmca naye

Outwardly it appears glorious; inwardly a sack of hell; like the cover of a leather-vessel — not to be opened.

कुंड धुतां शुद्ध होतें । यास प्रत्यईं धुईजेतें । तरी दुर्गंधी देहातें । शुद्धता न ये

kumḍa dhutām śuddha hotem | yāsa pratyaīm dhuījetem | tarī durgamdhī dehātem | śuddhatā na ye

A vessel by washing becomes pure; this, even by countless washings, the foul smell does not leave.

अस्तीपंजर उभविला । सीरानाडीं गुंडाळिला । मेदमांसें सरसाविला । सांदोसाअंदीं भरूनी

astīpamjara ubhavilā | sīrānāḍīm gumḍāḷilā | medamāmsem sarasāvilā | sāmdosāamdīm bharūnī

A skeleton is set up; wrapped in veins and nerves; adjusted with fat and flesh; filled in the crevices.

अशुद्ध शब्दें शुद्ध नाहीं । तेंहि भरलें असे देहीं । नाना व्याधी दुःखें तेंहि । अभ्यांतरी वसती

aśuddha śabdem śuddha nāhīm | temhi bharalem ase dehīm | nānā vyādhī duḥkhem temhi | abhyāmtarī vasatī

Impurity cannot be made pure; and all this fills the body; diseases and sorrows also dwell within.

नर्काचें कोठार भरलें । आंतबाहेरी लिडीबिडिलें । मूत्रपोतडें जमलें । दुर्गंधीचें

narkācem koṭhāra bharalem | āmtabāherī liḍībiḍilem | mūtrapotaḍem jamalem | durgamdhīcem

A storehouse of hell is filled; smeared inside and out; a sack of urine collects — of stench.

जंत किडे आणी आंतडी । नाना दुर्गंधीची पोतडी । अमुप लवथविती कातडी । कांटाळवाणी

jamta kiḍe āṇī āmtaḍī | nānā durgamdhīcī potaḍī | amupa lavathavitī kātaḍī | kāmṭāḷavāṇī

Worms, insects, and intestines; a sack of various stenches; a skin trembles endlessly — a pitiful form.

सर्वांगास सिर प्रमाण । तेथें बळसें वाहे घ्राण । उठे घाणी फुटतां श्रवण । ते दुर्गंधी नेघवे

sarvāmgāsa sira pramāṇa | tethem baḷasem vāhe ghrāṇa | uṭhe ghāṇī phuṭatām śravaṇa | te durgamdhī neghave

Head is the measure of the whole body; there the nose twitches; the ear breaks with a stench — such a smell cannot be borne.

डोळां निघती चिपडें । नाकीं दाटतीं मेकडें । प्रातःकाळीं घाणी पडे । मुखीं मळासारिखी

ḍoḷām nighatī cipaḍem | nākīm dāṭatīm mekaḍem | prātaḥkāḷīm ghāṇī paḍe | mukhīm maḷāsārikhī

Eye-discharge flows from the eyes; snot clogs the nose; by morning dirt collects in the mouth like refuse.

लाळ थुंका आणी मळ । पीत श्लेष्मा प्रबळ । तयास म्हणती मुखकमळ । चंद्रासारिखें

lāḷa thumkā āṇī maḷa | pīta śleṣmā prabaḷa | tayāsa mhaṇatī mukhakamaḷa | camdrāsārikhem

Saliva, spit, and waste; abundant phlegm (śleṣmā) — and they call this the 'mouth-lotus' (mukha-kamala), compared to the moon!

मुख ऐसें कुश्चीळ दिसे । पोटीं विष्ठा भरली असे । प्रत्यक्षास प्रमाण नसे । भूमंडळीं

mukha aisem kuścīḷa dise | poṭīm viṣṭhā bharalī ase | pratyakṣāsa pramāṇa nase | bhūmamḍaḷīm

Such a mouth appears unclean; the belly is filled with excrement; no worldly proof is necessary.

पोटीं घालितां दिव्यान्न । कांहीं विष्ठा कांहीं वमन । भागीरथीचें घेतां जीवन । त्याची कोये लघुशंका

poṭīm ghālitām divyānna | kāmhīm viṣṭhā kāmhīm vamana | bhāgīrathīcem ghetām jīvana | tyācī koye laghuśamkā

The finest food placed in the belly becomes in part excrement, in part vomit; water from the Ganges becomes urine.

एवं मळ मूत्र आणी वमन । हेंचि देहाचें जीवन । येणेंचि देह वाढे जाण । यदर्थीं संशय नाहीं

evam maḷa mūtra āṇī vamana | hemci dehācem jīvana | yeṇemci deha vāḍhe jāṇa | yadarthīm samśaya nāhīm

Thus filth, urine, and vomit — this is the life of the body; by this the body grows — of this there is no doubt.

पोटीं नस्तां मळ मूत्र वोक । मरोन जाती सकळ लोक । जाला राव अथवा रंक । पोटीं विष्ठा चुकेना

poṭīm nastām maḷa mūtra voka | marona jātī sakaḷa loka | jālā rāva athavā ramka | poṭīm viṣṭhā cukenā

If the belly does not [pass] filth, urine, vomit — all people die; king or beggar, excrement cannot be escaped.

निर्मळपणें काढूं जातां । तरी देह पडेल तत्वतां । एवं देहाची वेवस्था । ऐसी असे

nirmaḷapaṇem kāḍhūm jātām | tarī deha paḍela tatvatām | evam dehācī vevasthā | aisī ase

If one tries to extract the purity [from the body], the body will fall apart in truth; such is the arrangement of the body.

ऐसा हा धड असतां । येथाभूत पाहों जातां । मग ते दुर्दशा सांगतां । शंका बाधी

aisā hā dhaḍa asatām | yethābhūta pāhom jātām | maga te durdaśā sāmgatām | śamkā bādhī

Being well [outside], if one looks for the real truth, the wretchedness to be described staggers one.

ऐसिये कारागृहीं वस्ती । नवमास बहु विपत्ती । नवहि द्वारें निरोधती । वायो कैंचा तेथें

aisiye kārāgṛhīm vastī | navamāsa bahu vipattī | navahi dvārem nirodhatī | vāyo kaimcā tethem

In such a prison-house [the womb] the dwelling for nine months — great calamity; the nine gates are blocked — where is air there?

वोका नरकाचे रस झिरपती । ते जठराग्नीस्तव तापती । तेणें सर्वहि उकडती । अस्तिमांस

vokā narakāce rasa jhirapatī | te jaṭharāgnīstava tāpatī | teṇem sarvahi ukaḍatī | astimāmsa

Hell-juices ooze vomit; they heat by the belly-fire (jaṭhara-agni); all bones and flesh are cooked thereby.

त्वचेविण गर्भ खोळे । तंव मातेसी होती डोहळे । कटवतिक्षणें सर्वांग पोळे । तया बाळकाचें

tvaceviṇa garbha khoḷe | tamva mātesī hotī ḍohaḷe | kaṭavatikṣaṇem sarvāmga poḷe | tayā bāḷakācem

The fetus is encased without skin; the mother has cravings; the infant's whole body burns with bitter/spicy taste.

बांधलें चर्माचें मोटाळें । तेथें विष्ठेचें पेटाळें । रसौपाय वंकनाळें । होत असे

bāmdhalem carmācem moṭāḷem | tethem viṣṭhecem peṭāḷem | rasaupāya vamkanāḷem | hota ase

Tied [in] a bag of skin; in that sac of filth; nourishment comes through the cord (vanka-nāḷa).

विष्ठा मूत्र वांती पीत । नाकीं तोंडीं निघती जंत । तेणें निर्बुजलें चित्त । आतिशयेंसीं

viṣṭhā mūtra vāmtī pīta | nākīm tomḍīm nighatī jamta | teṇem nirbujalem citta | ātiśayemsīm

Excrement, urine, vomit, phlegm; worms emerge from nose and mouth; by this the mind is extremely bewildered (nirbuja).

ऐसिये कारागृहीं प्राणी । पडिला अत्यंत दाटणीं । कळवळोन म्हणे चक्रपाणी । सोडवीं येथून आतां

aisiye kārāgṛhīm prāṇī | paḍilā atyamta dāṭaṇīm | kaḷavaḷona mhaṇe cakrapāṇī | soḍavīm yethūna ātām

In such a prison-house, the living being falls into extreme press; cries out: 'Cakrapāṇi (Viṣṇu), release me from here now!'

देवा सोडविसी येथून । तरी मी स्वहित करीन । गर्भवास हा चुकवीन । पुन्हां न ये येथें

devā soḍavisī yethūna | tarī mī svahita karīna | garbhavāsa hā cukavīna | punhām na ye yethem

'God, if you release me from here, I shall do what is good for myself; I shall escape this womb-dwelling; I will not come here again.'

ऐसी दुखवोन प्रतिज्ञा केली । तंव जन्मवेळ पुढें आली । माता आक्रंदों लागली । प्रसूतकाळीं

aisī dukhavona pratijñā kelī | tamva janmaveḷa puḍhem ālī | mātā ākramdom lāgalī | prasūtakāḷīm

Thus in sorrow the vow was made; meanwhile the time of birth arrived; the mother began to cry out at the moment of delivery.

नाकीं तोंडीं बैसलें मांस । मस्तकद्वारें सांडी स्वास । तेंहि बुजलें निशेष । जन्मकाळीं

nākīm tomḍīm baisalem māmsa | mastakadvārem sāmḍī svāsa | temhi bujalem niśeṣa | janmakāḷīm

Flesh presses nose and mouth; breath is expelled through the head; but that is blocked completely at the time of birth.

मस्तकद्वार तें बुजलें । तेणें चित्त निर्बुजलें । प्राणी तळमळूं लागलें । चहूंकडे

mastakadvāra tem bujalem | teṇem citta nirbujalem | prāṇī taḷamaḷūm lāgalem | cahūmkaḍe

The head-opening is blocked; the mind is bewildered; the creature begins to thrash in all directions.

स्वास उस्वास कोंडला । तेणें प्राणी जाजावला । मार्ग दिसेनासा जाला । कासावीस

svāsa usvāsa komḍalā | teṇem prāṇī jājāvalā | mārga disenāsā jālā | kāsāvīsa

Breathing in and out is obstructed; the creature is tormented (jājāvalā); no path is visible; in extreme distress.

चित्त बहु निर्बुजलें । तेणें आडभरीं भरलें । लोक म्हणती आडवें आलें । खांडून काढा

citta bahu nirbujalem | teṇem āḍabharīm bharalem | loka mhaṇatī āḍavem ālem | khāmḍūna kāḍhā

The mind extremely bewildered; thus [the fetus] gets stuck cross-wise; people say 'it has come crosswise; cut it out.'

मग ते खांडून काढिती । हस्तपाद छेदून घेती । हातां पडिलें तेंचि कापिती । मुख नासिक उदर

maga te khāmḍūna kāḍhitī | hastapāda chedūna ghetī | hātām paḍilem temci kāpitī | mukha nāsika udara

Then they cut and extract; hand and feet are severed; whatever comes to hand is cut — face, nose, belly.

ऐसे टवके तोडिले । बाळकें प्राण सोडिले । मातेनेंहि सांडिलें । कळिवर

aise ṭavake toḍile | bāḷakem prāṇa soḍile | mātenemhi sāmḍilem | kaḷivara

Thus pieces are cut off; the infant gives up life; the mother too is left as a corpse (kaḷivara).

मृत्य पावला आपण । मतेचा घेतला प्राण । दुःख भोगिलें दारुण । गर्भवासीं

mṛtya pāvalā āpaṇa | matecā ghetalā prāṇa | duḥkha bhogilem dāruṇa | garbhavāsīm

Death has come; the mother's life too has been taken; terrible sorrow is experienced in the womb-dwelling.

तथापी सुकृतेंकरूनी । मार्ग सांपडला योनी । तऱ्हीं आडकला जाउनी । कंठस्कंदीं मागुता

tathāpī sukṛtemkarūnī | mārga sāmpaḍalā yonī | taṟhīm āḍakalā jāunī | kamṭhaskamdīm māgutā

Yet by good fortune (sukṛta) the birth-canal is found; yet even there, at the neck-shoulder joint, [the fetus] is caught back.

तये संकोचित पंथीं । बळेंचि वोढून काढिती । तेणें गुणें प्राण जाती । बाळकाचे

taye samkocita pamthīm | baḷemci voḍhūna kāḍhitī | teṇem guṇem prāṇa jātī | bāḷakāce

In that narrow path they pull forcefully; by that, the infant's life is lost.

बाळकाचे जातां प्राण । अंतीं होये विस्मरण । तेणें पूर्वील स्मरण । विसरोन गेला

bāḷakāce jātām prāṇa | amtīm hoye vismaraṇa | teṇem pūrvīla smaraṇa | visarona gelā

At the time of the infant's death, there is forgetting (vismaraṇa); thereby the previous memory is lost.

गर्भीं म्हणे सोहं सोहं । बाहेरी पडतां म्हणे कोहं । ऐसा कष्टी जाला बहु । गर्भवासीं

garbhīm mhaṇe soham soham | bāherī paḍatām mhaṇe koham | aisā kaṣṭī jālā bahu | garbhavāsīm

In the womb he says 'soham, soham' ('I am That'); on emerging, he says 'koham?' ('who am I?'). Such great torment in the womb-dwelling.

दुःखा वरपडा होता जाला । थोरा कष्टीं बाहेरी आला । सवेंच कष्ट विसरला । गर्भवासाचे

duḥkhā varapaḍā hotā jālā | thorā kaṣṭīm bāherī ālā | savemca kaṣṭa visaralā | garbhavāsāce

He reached sorrow's extent; with great hardship came out; immediately forgot the hardship of the womb.

सुंन्याकार जाली वृत्ती । कांहीं आठवेना चित्तीं । अज्ञानें पडिली भ्रांती । तेणें सुखचि मानिलें

sumnyākāra jālī vṛttī | kāmhīm āṭhavenā cittīm | ajñānem paḍilī bhrāmtī | teṇem sukhaci mānilem

The mind became blank (śunyākāra); nothing is recollected in the heart; by ignorance, delusion fell — and through that, [the world] felt like happiness.

देह विकार पावलें । सुखदुःखें झळंबळे । असो ऐसें गुंडाळलें । मायाजाळीं

deha vikāra pāvalem | sukhaduḥkhem jhaḷambaḷe | aso aisem gumḍāḷalem | māyājāḷīm

The body underwent changes; tossed between pleasure and pain; thus it became wrapped in the net of māyā.

ऐसें दुःख गर्भवासीं । होतें प्राणीमात्रांसीं । म्हणोनियां भगवंतासी । शरण जावें

aisem duḥkha garbhavāsīm | hotem prāṇīmātrāmsīm | mhaṇoniyām bhagavamtāsī | śaraṇa jāvem

Such is the sorrow of the womb-dwelling — for all living beings. Therefore one should take refuge in the Lord (bhagavantāsī śaraṇa jāvẽ).

जो भगवंताचा भक्त । तो जन्मापासून मुक्त । ज्ञानबळें बिरक्त । सर्वकाळ

jo bhagavamtācā bhakta | to janmāpāsūna mukta | jñānabaḷem birakta | sarvakāḷa

He who is a devotee of the Lord is released from birth (janmāpāsūna mukta); dispassionate (virakta) always, by the strength of knowledge (jñāna-bala).

ऐशा गर्भवासीं विपत्ती । निरोपिल्या येथामती । सावध होऊन श्रोतीं । पुढें अवधान द्यावें

aiśā garbhavāsīm vipattī | niropilyā yethāmatī | sāvadha hoūna śrotīm | puḍhem avadhāna dyāvem

Such are the calamities of the womb-dwelling, related according to capacity. Listeners, be attentive; give attention to what follows.