Shloka 40

स्वेच्छाविग्रहसंभव-प्रतिष्ठाफलवर्णनम् (विविधशिवमूर्तिप्रतिष्ठा, लोक-फल, शिवसायुज्य)

Devanagari script

भुक्त्वा तु विपुलांस्तत्र भोगान् युगशतं नरः ज्ञानयोगं समासाद्य तत्रैव च विमुच्यते

Transliteration

bhuktvā tu vipulāṃstatra bhogān yugaśataṃ naraḥ jñānayogaṃ samāsādya tatraiva ca vimucyate

Translation

Après y avoir goûté d’abondantes jouissances durant cent yuga, l’homme atteint le Yoga de la connaissance libératrice; et dans cet état même il est délivré : le pāśa est tranché par la grâce de Pati (Śiva).

Word by Word

• भुक्त्वा: having enjoyed

• तु: indeed/then

• विपुलान्: abundant, vast

• तत्र: there/in that realm or condition

• भोगान्: enjoyments, sense-pleasures

• युगशतम्: a hundred yugas/ages

• नरः: a man, embodied soul (paśu)

• ज्ञानयोगम्: jñāna-yoga, the yoga of spiritual knowledge

• समासाद्य: having attained, having reached

• तत्रैव: there itself/in that very state

• च: and

• विमुच्यते: is freed, is liberated (mokṣa)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages at Naimisharanya)