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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