Shloka 29

कालयुक्तधर्मविवेकः

Discerning Dharma in Accord with Time

Devanagari script

श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच मानसेनेह धर्मेण संयुक्ता: पुरुषा: सदा | स्वर्ग गच्छन्ति कल्याणि तन्मे कीर्तयत: शृणु

Transliteration

śrīmaheśvara uvāca | mānaseneha dharmeṇa saṁyuktāḥ puruṣāḥ sadā | svargaṁ gacchanti kalyāṇi tan me kīrtayataḥ śṛṇu ||

Translation

Śrī Maheśvara said: “O auspicious lady, those men who are always united here with mental dharma—whose minds continually contemplate and enact what is righteous—attain heaven. Listen as I declare this teaching.”

Word by Word

• {'śrīmaheśvaraḥ': 'Śrī Maheśvara (Śiva), the speaker', 'uvāca': 'said', 'mānasena': 'mental

• pertaining to the mind', 'iha': 'here (in this world)', 'dharmeṇa': 'with dharma

• with righteousness/duty', 'saṁyuktāḥ': 'joined, endowed, united', 'puruṣāḥ': 'men

• persons', 'sadā': 'always', 'svargam': 'heaven

• celestial world', 'gacchanti': 'go

• attain', 'kalyāṇi': 'O auspicious one (vocative, feminine)', 'tat': 'that (teaching/matter)', 'me': 'from me

• my', 'kīrtayataḥ': 'as (I am) proclaiming/expounding', 'śṛṇu': 'listen'}

Speaker

श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Maheśvara (Śiva)
• kalyāṇī (the addressed auspicious lady)
• svarga (heaven)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Consistent inner alignment with dharma—right intention, contemplation, and mental discipline—has spiritual efficacy and is presented as a cause for attaining heaven.

What is happening in the narrative?

Maheśvara addresses an ‘auspicious lady’ and introduces a didactic point: he urges her to listen while he explains how those devoted to mental dharma attain svarga.