Kalika Purana — Chapter 28
KaP 28.1
कालिकापुराणम् अष्टाविंशोऽध्यायः सारासारनिरूपणम् अथ कालिका पुराण अध्याय २८ ।। मार्कण्डेय उवाच ॥ जगत् सर्वं तु निःसारमनित्यं दुःखभाजनम् । उत्पद्यते क्षणादेतत् क्षणादेतद्विपद्यते
kālikāpurāṇam aṣṭāviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ sārāsāranirūpaṇam atha kālikā purāṇa adhyāya 28 || mārkaṇḍeya uvāca || jagat sarvaṃ tu niḥsāramanityaṃ duḥkhabhājanam | utpadyate kṣaṇādetat kṣaṇādetadvipadyate
The Kālikā Purāṇa, twenty-eighth chapter: the exposition of substance and non-substance. Now Kālikā Purāṇa, chapter 28. Mārkaṇḍeya said: But this whole world is without substance, impermanent, a vessel of suffering; in a moment it arises, in a moment it perishes.
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KaP 28.2
तथैवोत्पद्यते सारान्निःसारं जगदञ्जसा । पुनस्तस्मिन् विलीयन्ते महाप्रलयसङ्गमे
tathaivotpadyate sārānniḥsāraṃ jagadañjasā | punastasmin vilīyante mahāpralayasaṅgame
Just so the insubstantial world arises straightway out of the substance, and again they dissolve into that at the coming of the great dissolution.
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KaP 28.3
उत्पत्तिप्रलयाभ्यां तु जगन्निःसारतां हरिः । शम्भवे दर्शयामास भावेन जगतां पतिः
utpattipralayābhyāṃ tu jaganniḥsāratāṃ hariḥ | śambhave darśayāmāsa bhāvena jagatāṃ patiḥ
By (these two,) origination and dissolution, Hari, the lord of the worlds, showed to Śambhu the insubstantiality of the world by (its very) condition.
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KaP 28.4
एकं शिवं शान्तमनन्तमच्युतं परात्परं ज्ञानमयं विशेषम् । अद्वैतमव्यक्तमचिन्त्यरूपं सारं त्वेकं नास्ति सारं तदन्यत्
ekaṃ śivaṃ śāntamanantamacyutaṃ parātparaṃ jñānamayaṃ viśeṣam | advaitamavyaktamacintyarūpaṃ sāraṃ tvekaṃ nāsti sāraṃ tadanyat
The one, benign, tranquil, endless, unfailing, higher than the high, made of knowledge, distinct, non-dual, unmanifest, of inconceivable form — that alone is the substance; other than that there is no substance.
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KaP 28.5
यस्मादेतज्जायते विश्वमग्र्यं यस्माल्लीनं स्यात्तु पश्चात् स्थितञ्च । आकाशवन्मेघजालस्य वृत्त्या यद्विश्वं वै ध्रियते तत्त्वसारम्
yasmādetajjāyate viśvamagryaṃ yasmāllīnaṃ syāttu paścāt sthitañca | ākāśavanmeghajālasya vṛttyā yadviśvaṃ vai dhriyate tattvasāram
That from which this foremost universe is born, in which it becomes dissolved and afterwards abides too — that by which the universe is upheld, as the sky (upholds) by the action of the mass of clouds — that is the essence of reality.
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KaP 28.6
अष्टाङ्गयोर्गैर्यदवाप्तुमिच्छन् योगी पुनात्यात्मरूपं सदैव । निवर्तते प्राप्य यं नेह लोके तद्वै सारं सारमन्यन्न चास्ति
aṣṭāṅgayorgairyadavāptumicchan yogī punātyātmarūpaṃ sadaiva | nivartate prāpya yaṃ neha loke tadvai sāraṃ sāramanyanna cāsti
That which the yogin, wishing to attain by the eight-limbed yogas, ever purifies his own self for; on reaching which one does not return here to the world — that indeed is the substance, and there is no other substance.
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KaP 28.7
सारो द्वितीयो धर्मस्तु यो नित्यप्राप्तये भवेत् । यो वै निवर्तको नाम तत्रासारः प्रवर्तकः
sāro dvitīyo dharmastu yo nityaprāptaye bhavet | yo vai nivartako nāma tatrāsāraḥ pravartakaḥ
The second substance is dharma, which serves for the attainment of the eternal; the one that is called 'turning back' (is substance) — therein the one that sets going is non-substance.
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KaP 28.8
धर्मं शनैः सञ्चिनुयाद्वल्मीको मृत्तिकां यथा । सहायार्थं परे लोके पूर्वपापविमुक्तये
dharmaṃ śanaiḥ sañcinuyādvalmīko mṛttikāṃ yathā | sahāyārthaṃ pare loke pūrvapāpavimuktaye
One should heap up dharma little by little, as an anthill (heaps up) earth, for help in the world beyond and for release from former sins.
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KaP 28.9
एको धर्मः परं श्रेयः सर्वसंसारकर्मसु । इतरे तु त्रयो धर्माज्जायन्तेऽर्थादयोऽपरे
eko dharmaḥ paraṃ śreyaḥ sarvasaṃsārakarmasu | itare tu trayo dharmājjāyante'rthādayo'pare
Among all the works of worldly existence, dharma alone is the highest good; the other three—wealth and the rest—are born from dharma.
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KaP 28.10
वरं प्राणपरित्यागः शिरसो वाथ कर्तनम् । न तु धर्मपरित्यागो लोके वेदे च गर्हितः
varaṃ prāṇaparityāgaḥ śiraso vātha kartanam | na tu dharmaparityāgo loke vede ca garhitaḥ
Better the giving up of life, or even the cutting off of one's head, than the abandonment of dharma, which is censured both in the world and in the Veda.
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KaP 28.11
धर्मेण ध्रियते लोको धर्मेण ध्रियते जगत् । धर्मेणैव सुराः सर्वे सुरत्वमगमन् पुरा
dharmeṇa dhriyate loko dharmeṇa dhriyate jagat | dharmeṇaiva surāḥ sarve suratvamagaman purā
By dharma the world is upheld, by dharma the universe is upheld; by dharma alone did all the gods of old attain godhood.
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KaP 28.12
धर्मश्चतुस्पाद्भगवान् जगत् पालयतेऽनिशम् । स एव मूलं पुरुषो धर्म इत्यभिधीयते
dharmaścatuspādbhagavān jagat pālayate'niśam | sa eva mūlaṃ puruṣo dharma ityabhidhīyate
Dharma, four-footed and lordly, protects the world unceasingly; that very root Person is called dharma.
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KaP 28.13
सर्वं क्षरति लोकेऽस्मिन् धर्मो नैव च्युतो भवेत् । धर्माद् यो न विचलति स एवाक्षर उच्यते
sarvaṃ kṣarati loke'smin dharmo naiva cyuto bhavet | dharmād yo na vicalati sa evākṣara ucyate
Everything in this world perishes; dharma alone would never fall away. He who does not swerve from dharma, he alone is called imperishable.
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KaP 28.14
एतद्वः कथितं सारं निःसारं सकलं जगत् । यथा स्वयं ददर्शासौ शम्भुर्ज्ञानेन स्वेऽन्तरे
etadvaḥ kathitaṃ sāraṃ niḥsāraṃ sakalaṃ jagat | yathā svayaṃ dadarśāsau śambhurjñānena sve'ntare
This essence has been told to you—the whole world being without essence—just as Śambhu himself saw it by knowledge within himself.
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KaP 28.15
एतद्वै दर्शयामास स विष्णुर्जगतां पतिः । स्वयं जग्राह मनसा ध्यानेनात्मनि शङ्करः
etadvai darśayāmāsa sa viṣṇurjagatāṃ patiḥ | svayaṃ jagrāha manasā dhyānenātmani śaṅkaraḥ
This indeed Viṣṇu, the lord of the worlds, revealed; and Śaṅkara himself grasped it with his mind, by meditation, within himself.
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KaP 28.16
सारं तत्त्वं परमं निष्कलं यन्मूर्त्याहीनं मूर्तिमान् धर्म एषः । सारोऽन्त्योऽसौ सारहीनं तदन्यज्-ज्ञात्वैवेत्थं याति नित्यं महाधीः
sāraṃ tattvaṃ paramaṃ niṣkalaṃ yanmūrtyāhīnaṃ mūrtimān dharma eṣaḥ | sāro'ntyo'sau sārahīnaṃ tadanyaj-jñātvaivetthaṃ yāti nityaṃ mahādhīḥ
The essence is the supreme reality, partless, that which is devoid of form; this dharma is the embodied (form of it). That is the final essence; other than that is without essence—knowing thus, the man of great understanding goes to the eternal.
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