Shloka 72

Adhyaya 40: Kali-yuga Lakshana, Yuga-sandhyamsha, and the Re-emergence of Dharma

Devanagari script

जराव्याधिक्षुधाविष्टा दुःखान्निर्वेदमानसाः विचारणा तु निर्वेदात् साम्यावस्था विचारणा

Transliteration

jarāvyādhikṣudhāviṣṭā duḥkhānnirvedamānasāḥ vicāraṇā tu nirvedāt sāmyāvasthā vicāraṇā

Translation

Von Alter, Krankheit und Hunger bedrängt, wird ihr Geist durch das Leid ernüchtert und losgelöst. Aus dieser Entsagung entsteht wahre Unterscheidung (vicāraṇā); und eben diese Unterscheidung reift zum Zustand der Gleichmütigkeit (sāmyāvasthā)—zur ausgeglichenen Schau, die die Fesseln (pāśa) des paśu lockert und ihn zu Pati, Śiva, hinwendet.

Word by Word

• jarā: old age

• vyādhi: disease

• kṣudhā: hunger

• āviṣṭāḥ: seized/overcome

• duḥkhāt: from suffering

• nirveda-mānasāḥ: those whose minds are filled with dispassion/disenchantment

• vicāraṇā: inquiry/discriminative contemplation

• tu: indeed

• nirvedāt: from dispassion

• sāmyāvasthā: state of equanimity/balance

• vicāraṇā: (again) discriminative inquiry (as both means and culmination).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shaiva teaching within the Linga Purana discourse)