Shloka 5

यतिप्रायश्चित्तविधानम्

Ascetic Atonements and Discipline

Devanagari script

तस्माद् योगं प्रशंसन्ति धर्मयुक्ता मनीषिणः अविद्यां विद्यया जित्वा प्राप्यैश्वर्यमनुत्तमम्

Transliteration

tasmād yogaṃ praśaṃsanti dharmayuktā manīṣiṇaḥ avidyāṃ vidyayā jitvā prāpyaiśvaryamanuttamam

Translation

সেয়ে ধৰ্মত স্থিত মণীষীসকলে যোগৰ প্ৰশংসা কৰে; কিয়নো তেওঁলোকে বিদ্যাৰে অবিদ্যাক জয় কৰি অনুত্তম ঐশ্বৰ্য লাভ কৰে।

Word by Word

• तस्मात्: therefore

• योगम्: Yoga (discipline of union)

• प्रशंसन्ति: they praise

• धर्मयुक्ताः: endowed with dharma / aligned with righteous conduct

• मनीषिणः: the discerning wise

• अविद्याम्: ignorance (the root of bondage)

• विद्यया: by knowledge / liberating insight

• जित्वा: having conquered

• प्राप्य: having attained

• ऐश्वर्यम्: lordship, sovereignty, spiritual mastery

• अनुत्तमम्: unsurpassed, supreme

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana’s teaching to the sages at Naimisharanya)