Shanti Parva 307.33
Rahular Itihasa / M. N. Dutt · Shanti Parva Chapter 307 · Verse 33
Sanskrit Original
तासु तास्विह योनिषु। निर्ममस्य ममत्वेन किं कृतं तासु तासु च॥ प्राक् कृतेन ममत्वेन योनीषु वर्तमानेन नष्टसंज्ञेन चेतसा। न ममात्रानया कार्यमहंकारकृतात्मया॥ आत्मानं बहुधा कृत्वा येयं भूयो युनक्ति माम्। इदानीमेघ बुद्धोऽसि निर्ममो निरहंकृतः॥
On account of my idea of mineness concerning the results of Nature, I am forced to take birth in various orders of Being. Alas, though really shorn of Egoism, yet on account of affecting it, what various evil acts have been perpetrated by me in those orders in which I was born while I remained in them with a soul that had lost all knowledge! I have nothing to do with him who, with essence made up of consciousness, divides himself into many pieces and who tries to unite me with them. It is only now that I have been awakened and have understood that I am by nature without egoism and without that consciousness which creates the forms of Nature that invest me all around.