answers to the interesting questions-LOT 1

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HARI AUM

 

As promised I am posting the answers -again in lots-

for the sake of convenient reading.

 

Read them and be blissfull.

 

Regards

 

Balagopal

 

NARAYANA NARAYANA NARAYANA

 

The Mahabharata Book 3: Vana Parva (Section CCCXI).

Translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli [1883-1896].

 

And while he descended into it, he heard these words

from the sky, uttered by the Yaksha,--'I am a crane,

living on tiny fish. It is by me that thy younger

brothers have been brought under the sway of the lord

of departed spirits. If, thou, O prince, answer not

the questions put by me, even thou shalt number the

fifth corpse. Do not, O child, act rashly! This lake

hath already been in my possession. Having answered my

questions first, do thou, O Kunti's son, drink and

carry away (as much as thou requirest)!' [...] And the

Yaksha said, 'These thy brothers, O king, repeatedly

forbidden by me, would forcibly take away water. It is

for this that they have been slain by me! He that

wisheth to live, should not, O king, drink this water!

O son of Pritha, act not rashly! This lake hath

already been in my possession. Do thou, O son of

Kunti, first answer my questions, and then take away

as much as thou likest!'

 

Yudhishthira said, 'I do not, O Yaksha, covet, what is

already in thy possession! O bull among male beings,

virtuous persons never approve that one should applaud

his own self (without boasting, I shall, therefore,

answer thy questions, according to my intelligence).

Do thou ask me!'

 

ANSWERS - LOT-1

 

1)The Yaksha then said, 'What is it that maketh the

Sun rise? Who keeps him company? Who causeth him to

set? And in whom is he established?'

 

Yudhishthira answered, ' Brahma maketh the Sun rise:

the gods keep him company: Dharma causeth him to set:

and he is established in truth.'

 

2)The Yaksha asked, 'By what doth one become learned?

By what doth he attain what is very great? How can one

have a second? And, O king, how can one acquire

intelligence?'

 

Yudhishthira answered, 'It is by the (study of the)

Srutis that a person becometh learned; it is by

ascetic austerities that one acquireth what is very

great: it is by intelligence that a person acquireth a

second and it is by serving the old that one becometh

wise.'

 

 

 

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