Shloka 72

Adhyaya 40: Kali-yuga Lakshana, Yuga-sandhyamsha, and the Re-emergence of Dharma

Devanagari script

जराव्याधिक्षुधाविष्टा दुःखान्निर्वेदमानसाः विचारणा तु निर्वेदात् साम्यावस्था विचारणा

Transliteration

jarāvyādhikṣudhāviṣṭā duḥkhānnirvedamānasāḥ vicāraṇā tu nirvedāt sāmyāvasthā vicāraṇā

Translation

Accablés par la vieillesse, la maladie et la faim, leur esprit se détache, désabusé par la souffrance. De ce dégoût naît la vraie discrimination (vicāraṇā) ; et cette discrimination mûrit en l’état d’équanimité (sāmyāvasthā), la vision équilibrée qui desserre les liens (pāśa) du paśu et le tourne vers Pati, Śiva.

Word by Word

• jarā: old age

• vyādhi: disease

• kṣudhā: hunger

• āviṣṭāḥ: seized/overcome

• duḥkhāt: from suffering

• nirveda-mānasāḥ: those whose minds are filled with dispassion/disenchantment

• vicāraṇā: inquiry/discriminative contemplation

• tu: indeed

• nirvedāt: from dispassion

• sāmyāvasthā: state of equanimity/balance

• vicāraṇā: (again) discriminative inquiry (as both means and culmination).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shaiva teaching within the Linga Purana discourse)