Shloka 13

Aghora-Mantra Japa: Graded Expiations, Pañcagavya Purification, and Homa for Mahāpātaka-Nivṛtti

Devanagari script

नियुतं मानसं जप्त्वा मुच्यते नात्र संशयः गुरुतल्परतो वापि मातृघ्नो वा नराधमः

Transliteration

niyutaṃ mānasaṃ japtvā mucyate nātra saṃśayaḥ gurutalparato vāpi mātṛghno vā narādhamaḥ

Translation

Après avoir accompli un niyuta de japa mental, on est délivré—sans aucun doute. Même un homme enlisé dans les liens les plus graves du péché—celui qui profane le lit du guru, ou même un matricide, le plus vil des hommes—peut être relâché du pāśa par une telle récitation intérieure centrée sur Śiva.

Word by Word

• नियुतम्: a niyuta (a great fixed number, traditionally ten lakhs)

• मानसम्: mental, inward

• जप्त्वा: having repeated (japa) / having recited

• मुच्यते: is freed, is released (from bondage)

• न: not

• अत्र: here (in this teaching)

• संशयः: doubt

• गुरुतल्परतः: engaged in violating the guru’s bed (grave transgression)

• वा अपि: or even

• मातृघ्नः: slayer of one’s mother

• वा: or

• नराधमः: the lowest of men, most fallen person

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the puranic teaching to the sages of Naimisharanya; presenting the doctrine of manasa-japa as a Shaiva means of release)