Shloka 85
Rudra-Śiva: Names, Two Natures, and the Logic of Epithets (रुद्रनाम-बहुरूपत्व-प्रकरणम्)
विमुक्त: सर्वसज्ञेषु स्नेहबन्धेषु च द्विज: । आत्मन्येवात्मनो भावं समासज्जेत वै द्विज:
vimuktaḥ sarvasaṅgeṣu snehabandheṣu ca dvijaḥ | ātmany evātmano bhāvaṃ samāsajjet vai dvijaḥ ||
Śrī Maheśvara said: “A twice-born renunciant should be freed from every kind of attachment and from the bonds of affection. Fixing the mind’s movement within the Self alone, he should steadily fasten his inner awareness upon the Self. Thus, living apart from entanglements, he pursues the discipline of inward contemplation rather than outward dependence.”
श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches vairāgya (detachment): a renunciant should abandon all clinging and emotional bondage, and concentrate the mind inwardly on the Self alone, making inner contemplation the center of spiritual life.
Śrī Maheśvara is instructing a dvija (an initiated ascetic) on the proper conduct of saṃnyāsa: freedom from worldly ties and steady inward fixation of consciousness on the ātman.