Shloka 52

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

Devanagari script

तस्मात्संसेवनीयं हि अविमुक्तं हि मुक्तये जैगीषव्यः परां सिद्धिं गतो यत्र महातपाः

Transliteration

tasmātsaṃsevanīyaṃ hi avimuktaṃ hi muktaye jaigīṣavyaḥ parāṃ siddhiṃ gato yatra mahātapāḥ

Translation

সেয়ে মোক্ষৰ বাবে অৱিমুক্ত (কাশী) ক্ষেত্ৰ নিত্য সেৱনীয়; তাতেই মহাতপস্বী জৈগীষব্যে পাশচ্ছেদক পতি-শিৱৰ কৃপাৰে পৰম সিদ্ধি—মুক্তি—লাভ কৰিছিল।

Word by Word

• tasmāt: therefore

• saṃsevanīyam: to be assiduously resorted to/served

• hi: indeed

• avimuktam: Avimukta (the never-abandoned sacred kṣetra of Śiva, i.e., Kāśī)

• muktaye: for liberation

• jaigīṣavyaḥ: (the sage) Jaigīṣavya

• parām: supreme

• siddhim: attainment/perfection

• gataḥ: attained/reached

• yatra: where

• mahā-tapāḥ: great asceticity/great tapas (one possessing intense austerity)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the kṣetra-māhātmya within the Linga Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya)