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Yudhistara’s answers to
Yaksha Prasnas
From Mahaa Bharatam
Aranya ParvamSaptama Adhyayam
The SUN
1. What propels the Sun ?
A. The Paramaatma.
2. Who worship the Sun ?
A. All divine and learned.
3. What is Sun set due to ?
A. Kaala Dharma of revolving.
4. What does he support ?
A. The truth.
The Brahmin
5. Who is Brahmin or Srotriya ?
A. Any one who has scriptural wisdom.
6. What gives him great power ?
A. Intense devotion.
7. What is the best help for a man ?
A. Fortitude or Dhruti.
8. What makes man wiser ?
A. Following the wise.
The God - Man
09. When man becomes God ?
A. By Self-study or swa-adhyayana.
10. Who is a saadhu ?
A. The one with piety, chastity.
11. What makes one stoop down ?
A. Intoxication or inebriation.
12. What makes one a mortal ?
A. Lack of purity - internal & external.
The Living-Dead
13. Who is the one who is dead
though living ?
A. The one who eats (or enjoys
without sharing) without feeding
- His parents
- His servants
- His guests
- The poor and needy
The Superior
14. Whose forbearance is greater than
that of the Earth ?
A. The mother’s.
15. Which is broader than the Sky ?
A. The paternal heart.
16. What is faster than gale wind ?
A. The movement of the mind (manas).
17. Sharper than the grass-blade cut?
A. Any worry.
The Yes and No
18. Sleeps but doesn’t ?
A. The Fish.
19. Born, yet unborn ?
A. The egg.
20. Has form but no heart ?
A. The Sculpture (silpam).
21. Great but sans speed?
A. Mount Meru.
The Best Friend
22. For a passerby ?
A. The one who quenches his thirst.
23. For the diseased ?
A. The healer (doctor).
24. For a house-holder (grihasta) ?
A. His wife (sahadharma chaarini).
25. For the deceased ?
A. His dharma (while he was alive).
The Glorious
26. What is the abode of Dharma ?
A. In pity and empathy.
27. What is the abode of Keerti ?
A. In charity and help.
28. What is sure path to Swargam ?
A. Truthfulness.
29. What confers happiness ?
A. True charecter.
The Celebrated
30. The Atma for a man ?
A. True son.
31. The god-sent relative for a man ?
A. His consort.
32. His life principle ?
A. The water (parjanya = cloud).
33. Path of no-return?
A. Service and charity.
The Truths Eternal
34. Highest of all Dharmas ?
A. Non-violence.
35. Ever bearing its fruits ?
A. Our karmas.
36. The lesser, the merrier is one ?
A. The internal greed and ego.
37. Best compromise?
A. The one done with the noble.
The Real
38. Who support the existence ?
A. The noble men.
39. Who gives food and water ?
A. Earth and sky (clouds).
40. What is the worst poison ?
A. Aspiring for others’ wealth.
41. The auspicious day for ceremony ?
A. When the hungry are at the door.
The Best
42. Who is liked by one and all ?
A. The humble, egoless man.
43. Who is without any sorrow ?
A. One without rage and anger.
44. Who is the richest man?
A. A man who is not a miser.
45. Who is the happiest ?
A. The one sans desires.
The Purusha
46. Who is the real Man (Purusha) ?
A. Whose fame and name touch
the sky above and extend all
over the length and breadth of
the earth.
The Wealthiest
47. Who is the most possessed ?
A. Who is equanimous towards
- pleasant and unpleasant
- joy and misery
- and thinks not of the past
and the future but takes
care of the present.
The Yaksha is none other than
The Dharma Daevata