Shloka 19

प्रलय-तत्त्वलयः, नीललोहित-रुद्रः, अष्टमूर्तिस्तवः, एवं ब्रह्मणो वैराग्यम्

Devanagari script

सर्गं विसृज्य चात्मानम् आत्मन्येव नियोज्य च संहृत्य प्राणसञ्चारं पाषाण इव निश्चलः

Transliteration

sargaṃ visṛjya cātmānam ātmanyeva niyojya ca saṃhṛtya prāṇasañcāraṃ pāṣāṇa iva niścalaḥ

Translation

Nachdem er die äußere Schöpfung losgelassen und das Selbst im Selbst allein verankert hatte, zog er die Bewegung des Lebensatems zurück. Wie ein Stein blieb er völlig unbewegt — versunken in der Stille Patis, jenseits der Pāśa-Bande, die den Paśu binden.

Word by Word

• सर्गम् (sargam): creation, outward projection

• विसृज्य (visṛjya): having released, let go

• च (ca): and

• आत्मानम् (ātmānam): the self/individual awareness

• आत्मन्येव (ātmanyeva): in the Self alone

• नियोज्य (niyojya): having fixed, established

• च (ca): and

• संहृत्य (saṃhṛtya): having withdrawn, gathered back

• प्राणसञ्चारम् (prāṇasañcāram): the movement/circulation of prāṇa (life-breath)

• पाषाणः (pāṣāṇaḥ): a stone

• इव (iva): like

• निश्चलः (niścalaḥ): motionless, unwavering.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the yogic state described in the Purva-Bhaga narrative)