Mahabharata Bibliomancy Reading
This oracle randomly points to a line from one of sacred books of Mahabharata. The surrounding lines are also provided for context.
Your passage is from BOOK 1 - ADI PARVA - SECTION III - (Paushya Parva).
It is from these objects that the Universe hath sprung whereon the gods and men are engaged in their respective occupations, and, indeed, all creatures endued with life!
Surrounding Context from
BOOK 1 - ADI PARVA - SECTION III - (Paushya Parva)
Ye are the objects that are enjoyed in this and in the other world!
Make me independent of the five elements!
And though ye are the Supreme Brahma, yet ye move over the Earth in forms enjoying the delights that the senses afford.
“In the beginning, ye created the ten points of the universe!
Then have ye placed the Sun and the Sky above!
The Rishis, according to the course of the same Sun, perform their sacrifices, and the gods and men, according to what hath been appointed for them, perform their sacrifices also enjoying the fruits of those acts!
“Mixing the three colours, ye have produced all the objects of sight!
It is from these objects that the Universe hath sprung whereon the gods and men are engaged in their respective occupations, and, indeed, all creatures endued with life!
“Ye Aswins, I adore you!
I also adore the Sky which is your handiwork!
Ye are the ordainers of the fruits of all acts from which even the gods are not free!
Ye are yourselves free from the fruits of your acts!
“Ye are the parents of all!
As males and females it is ye that swallow the food which subsequently develops into the life creating fluid and blood!
The new-born infant sucks the teat of its mother.
