Shloka 50

अविमुक्तक्षेत्रमाहात्म्य — काशी-वाराणसी में मोक्ष, लिङ्ग-तीर्थ-मानचित्र, और उपासना-विधि

Devanagari script

कामं भुञ्जन् स्वपन् क्रीडन् कुर्वन् हि विविधाः क्रियाः अविमुक्ते त्यजेत्प्राणान् जन्तुर्मोक्षाय कल्पते

Transliteration

kāmaṃ bhuñjan svapan krīḍan kurvan hi vividhāḥ kriyāḥ avimukte tyajetprāṇān janturmokṣāya kalpate

Translation

ভোগ কৰি, খাই, শুই, খেলি আৰু নানাবিধ কৰ্ম কৰি থাকিলেও—যদি জীৱে অবিমুক্তত প্ৰাণ ত্যাগ কৰে, তেন্তে সি মোক্ষৰ যোগ্য হয়।

Word by Word

• कामम्: according to desire/with enjoyment

• भुञ्जन्: eating/partaking

• स्वपन्: sleeping

• क्रीडन्: playing/sporting

• कुर्वन्: doing/performing

• हि: indeed

• विविधाः: various

• क्रियाः: actions/activities

• अविमुक्ते: in Avimukta (Shiva’s unforsaken kshetra, Kāśī)

• त्यजेत्: should abandon/give up

• प्राणान्: the life-breaths/vital airs

• जन्तुः: embodied being (pashu/jiva)

• मोक्षाय: for liberation

• कल्पते: becomes fit/is qualified.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Linga Purana’s Avimukta-mahatmya to the sages at Naimisharanya)