Narasimha Purana — Chapter 15

NsP 15.1

श्रोतुम् इच्छाम्य् अहं तात सांप्रतं मुनिभिः सह संसारवृक्षं सकलं येनेदं परिवर्तते

śrotum icchāmy ahaṃ tāta sāṃprataṃ munibhiḥ saha saṃsāravṛkṣaṃ sakalaṃ yenedaṃ parivartate

I wish to hear now, father, together with the sages, about the whole tree of transmigration, by which this (world) revolves.

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NsP 15.2

वक्तुम् अर्हसि मे तात त्वयैतत् सूचितं पुरा नान्यो वेत्ति महाभाग संसारोच्चारलक्षणम्

vaktum arhasi me tāta tvayaitat sūcitaṃ purā nānyo vetti mahābhāga saṃsāroccāralakṣaṇam

You ought to tell it to me, father; this was hinted at by you before. No one else knows, O greatly fortunate one, the marks of the rising up out of transmigration.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

NsP 15.3

स पुत्रेणैवम् उक्तस् तु शिष्याणां मध्यगेन च कृष्णद्वैपायनः प्राह संसारतरुलक्षणम्

sa putreṇaivam uktas tu śiṣyāṇāṃ madhyagena ca kṛṣṇadvaipāyanaḥ prāha saṃsāratarulakṣaṇam

Thus addressed by his son, and being in the midst of his pupils, Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana declared the characteristics of the tree of transmigration.

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NsP 15.4

शृण्वन्तु शिष्याः सकला वत्स त्वं शृणु भावितः संसारवृक्षं वक्ष्यामि येन चेदं समावृतम्

śṛṇvantu śiṣyāḥ sakalā vatsa tvaṃ śṛṇu bhāvitaḥ saṃsāravṛkṣaṃ vakṣyāmi yena cedaṃ samāvṛtam

Let all the pupils listen; and you, child, listen with attention: I shall describe the tree of transmigration, by which this (all) is enveloped.

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NsP 15.5

अव्यक्तमूलप्रभवस् तस्माद् अग्रे तथोत्थितः बुद्धिस्कन्धमयश् चैव इन्द्रियाङ्करकोटरः

avyaktamūlaprabhavas tasmād agre tathotthitaḥ buddhiskandhamayaś caiva indriyāṅkarakoṭaraḥ

It springs from the unmanifest as its root, and thence has risen up as its sprout; it consists of the intellect as its trunk, and has the senses for its shoots and hollows.

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NsP 15.6

महाभूतविशाखश् च विशेषैः पत्त्रशाखवान् धर्माधर्मसुपुष्पश् च सुखदुःखफलोदयः

mahābhūtaviśākhaś ca viśeṣaiḥ pattraśākhavān dharmādharmasupuṣpaś ca sukhaduḥkhaphalodayaḥ

It has the great elements for its main boughs, and with the particulars (viśeṣas) it has leaves and branches; virtue and vice are its fair flowers, and pleasure and pain the arising of its fruit.

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NsP 15.7

आजीव्यः सर्वभूतानां ब्रह्मवृक्षः सनातनः एतद् ब्रह्म परं चैव ब्रह्म वृक्षस्य तस्य तत्

ājīvyaḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ brahmavṛkṣaḥ sanātanaḥ etad brahma paraṃ caiva brahma vṛkṣasya tasya tat

The eternal brahman-tree is the means of livelihood of all beings; this is brahman, and that supreme brahman belongs to that tree.

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NsP 15.8

इत्य् एवं कथितं वत्स संसारवृक्षलक्षणम् वृक्षं एनं समारूढा मोहम् आयान्ति देहिनः

ity evaṃ kathitaṃ vatsa saṃsāravṛkṣalakṣaṇam vṛkṣaṃ enaṃ samārūḍhā moham āyānti dehinaḥ

Thus, child, the characteristics of the tree of transmigration have been told. Having climbed this tree, embodied beings come to delusion.

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NsP 15.9

संसरन्तीह सततं सुखदुःखसमन्विताः प्रायेण प्राकृता मर्त्या ब्रह्मज्ञानपराङ्मुखाः

saṃsarantīha satataṃ sukhaduḥkhasamanvitāḥ prāyeṇa prākṛtā martyā brahmajñānaparāṅmukhāḥ

Here they transmigrate continually, attended by pleasure and pain — mostly ordinary mortals, turned away from the knowledge of brahman.

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NsP 15.10

छित्त्वैनं कृतिनो यान्ति नो यान्ति ब्रह्मज्ञानिनः कर्मक्रिये महाप्राज्ञ नैनं छिन्दन्ति दुष्कृताः

chittvainaṃ kṛtino yānti no yānti brahmajñāninaḥ karmakriye mahāprājña nainaṃ chindanti duṣkṛtāḥ

Having cut it down, the accomplished ones go (free); the knowers of brahman do not go (on transmigrating). Action and rite, O greatly wise one — evildoers do not cut this (tree) down.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

NsP 15.11

एनं छित्त्वा च भित्त्वा च ज्ञानेन परमासिना ततो ऽमरत्वं ते यान्ति यस्मान् नावर्तते पुनः

enaṃ chittvā ca bhittvā ca jñānena paramāsinā tato 'maratvaṃ te yānti yasmān nāvartate punaḥ

Having cut and split this (tree) with the supreme sword of knowledge, they then attain immortality, from which one does not return again.

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NsP 15.12

देहदारमयैः पाशैर् दृढं बद्धो ऽपि मुच्यते ज्ञानम् एव परं पुंसां श्रेयसाम् अभिवाञ्छितम् तोषणं नरसिंहस्य ज्ञानहीनः पशुः पुमान्

dehadāramayaiḥ pāśair dṛḍhaṃ baddho 'pi mucyate jñānam eva paraṃ puṃsāṃ śreyasām abhivāñchitam toṣaṇaṃ narasiṃhasya jñānahīnaḥ paśuḥ pumān

Even one firmly bound by the fetters made of body and wife is released. Knowledge alone is supreme for men, the thing desired among goods, the pleasing of Narasiṃha; a man devoid of knowledge is a beast.

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NsP 15.13

आहारनिद्राभयमैथुनानि समानम् एतत् पशुभिर् नराणाम् ज्ञानं नराणाम् अधिकं हि लोके ज्ञानेन हीनाः पशुभिः समानाः

āhāranidrābhayamaithunāni samānam etat paśubhir narāṇām jñānaṃ narāṇām adhikaṃ hi loke jñānena hīnāḥ paśubhiḥ samānāḥ

Food, sleep, fear, and copulation — this is common to men with beasts; knowledge indeed is what is more in men in this world; those lacking knowledge are equal to beasts.

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