Shloka 56

ध्यानयज्ञः, संसार-विष-निरूपणम्, पाशुपतयोगः, परा-अपरा विद्या, चतुर्वस्था-विचारः (अध्यायः ८६)

Devanagari script

महान्तं तद् बृहन्तं च तदजं चिन्मयं द्विजाः अप्राणममनस्कं च तदस्निग्धमलोहितम्

Transliteration

mahāntaṃ tad bṛhantaṃ ca tadajaṃ cinmayaṃ dvijāḥ aprāṇamamanaskaṃ ca tadasnigdhamalohitam

Translation

O ihr Zweimalgeborenen: Jenes ist das Große und das Weite; ungeboren und aus reiner Bewusstheit (cinmaya). Ohne Lebenshauch und ohne Geist — unanhaftend, frei von aller Röte: Leidenschaft, Blut und materieller Färbung.

Word by Word

• महान्तम्: the Great (Mahān, Supreme)

• तत्: That (the Absolute, Shiva as Pati)

• बृहन्तम्: the Vast/All-pervading

• च: and

• तत् अजम्: That which is unborn

• चिन्मयम्: consisting of Consciousness (Cit)

• द्विजाः: O twice-born (Brahmins)

• अप्राणम्: without prāṇa (vital breath)

• अमनस्कम्: without mind (beyond manas)

• च: and

• तत् अस्निग्धम्: That which is unattached/non-clinging (without rāga)

• अलोहितम्: without redness/blood (free from passion and material taint)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva’s transcendent nature to the sages)