Shloka 676

Aṣṭāvakra’s Visit to Kubera: Hospitality, Temptation, and the Ethics of Restraint (अष्टावक्र-वैश्रवणोपाख्यानम्)

Devanagari script

सर्व तुदति तत्पापं भावयज्छिवमात्मना । “समस्त लक्षणोंसे हीन अथवा सब पापोंसे युक्त मनुष्य भी यदि अपने हृदयसे भगवान्‌ शिवका ध्यान करता है तो वह अपने सारे पापोंको नष्ट कर देता है

Transliteration

sarvaṁ tudati tat pāpaṁ bhāvayac chivam ātmanā

Translation

Vāyu said: “That sin which torments a person in every way is destroyed when one contemplates Lord Śiva with one’s whole inner being. Even a person lacking all auspicious marks, or burdened with many sins, if he meditates on Śiva from the heart, burns away his accumulated wrongdoing.”

Word by Word

• सर्वम्: all (entirely)
• सर्वम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• तुदति: pierces/afflicts
• Type: Verb
• Root: तुद्
• Form: Present, Third, Singular, Parasmaipada

• तत्: that
• तत्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• पापम्: sin/evil
• पापम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाप
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• भावय: meditate upon / contemplate / cause to be in mind
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Imperative, Second, Singular, Parasmaipada, Causative (णिच्) stem भावय-

• शिवम्: Śiva
• शिवम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शिव
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• आत्मना: with oneself / by one’s own self (heart/mind)
• आत्मना: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: आत्मन्
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyudeva
• Śiva