Shloka 17

Adhyaya 34: भस्ममहात्म्यं—अग्नीषोमात्मक-शिवतत्त्वं तथा पाशुपतव्रतप्रशंसा

Devanagari script

तत्सर्वं दहते भस्म यथाग्निस्तेजसा वनम् तस्माद् यत्नपरो भूत्वा त्रिकालमपि यः सदा

Transliteration

tatsarvaṃ dahate bhasma yathāgnistejasā vanam tasmād yatnaparo bhūtvā trikālamapi yaḥ sadā

Translation

Esa disciplina (śaiva) lo reduce todo a ceniza, como el fuego, por su propio fulgor, consume un bosque. Por ello, hay que ser firme en el esfuerzo y, en las tres coyunturas del día, realizar siempre la observancia.

Word by Word

• tat-sarvam: all that (pāpa/impurities/bondages)

• dahate: burns up

• bhasma: into ash

• yathā: just as

• agniḥ: fire

• tejasā: by (its) radiance/power

• vanam: a forest

• tasmāt: therefore

• yatna-paraḥ: devoted to effort/discipline

• bhūtvā: having become

• tri-kālam api: even at the three times (morning, noon, evening)

• yaḥ: whoever/one who

• sadā: always, continually

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana’s Shaiva discipline to the sages of Naimisharanya, echoing the Purana’s internal teaching tradition)