Shloka 40

स्वेच्छाविग्रहसंभव-प्रतिष्ठाफलवर्णनम् (विविधशिवमूर्तिप्रतिष्ठा, लोक-फल, शिवसायुज्य)

Devanagari script

भुक्त्वा तु विपुलांस्तत्र भोगान् युगशतं नरः ज्ञानयोगं समासाद्य तत्रैव च विमुच्यते

Transliteration

bhuktvā tu vipulāṃstatra bhogān yugaśataṃ naraḥ jñānayogaṃ samāsādya tatraiva ca vimucyate

Translation

Nachdem der Mensch dort hundert Yugas lang reiche Genüsse erfahren hat, erlangt er den Yoga des befreienden Wissens; und in eben diesem Zustand wird er erlöst—das pāśa (Band) wird durch die Gnade Patis (Śivas) durchschnitten.

Word by Word

• भुक्त्वा: having enjoyed

• तु: indeed/then

• विपुलान्: abundant, vast

• तत्र: there/in that realm or condition

• भोगान्: enjoyments, sense-pleasures

• युगशतम्: a hundred yugas/ages

• नरः: a man, embodied soul (paśu)

• ज्ञानयोगम्: jñāna-yoga, the yoga of spiritual knowledge

• समासाद्य: having attained, having reached

• तत्रैव: there itself/in that very state

• च: and

• विमुच्यते: is freed, is liberated (mokṣa)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages at Naimisharanya)