Shloka 29

कालयुक्तधर्मविवेकः

Discerning Dharma in Accord with Time

Devanagari script

श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच मानसेनेह धर्मेण संयुक्ता: पुरुषा: सदा | स्वर्ग गच्छन्ति कल्याणि तन्मे कीर्तयत: शृणु

Transliteration

śrīmaheśvara uvāca | mānaseneha dharmeṇa saṁyuktāḥ puruṣāḥ sadā | svargaṁ gacchanti kalyāṇi tan me kīrtayataḥ śṛṇu ||

Translation

Śrī Maheśvara dit : « Ô dame de bon augure, les hommes qui, ici, demeurent toujours unis au dharma de l’esprit—dont le mental contemple sans cesse le juste et le met en acte—atteignent le ciel. Écoute tandis que je proclame cet enseignement. »

Word by Word

• {'śrīmaheśvaraḥ': 'Śrī Maheśvara (Śiva), the speaker', 'uvāca': 'said', 'mānasena': 'mental

• pertaining to the mind', 'iha': 'here (in this world)', 'dharmeṇa': 'with dharma

• with righteousness/duty', 'saṁyuktāḥ': 'joined, endowed, united', 'puruṣāḥ': 'men

• persons', 'sadā': 'always', 'svargam': 'heaven

• celestial world', 'gacchanti': 'go

• attain', 'kalyāṇi': 'O auspicious one (vocative, feminine)', 'tat': 'that (teaching/matter)', 'me': 'from me

• my', 'kīrtayataḥ': 'as (I am) proclaiming/expounding', 'śṛṇu': 'listen'}

Speaker

श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Maheśvara (Śiva)
• kalyāṇī (the addressed auspicious lady)
• svarga (heaven)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Consistent inner alignment with dharma—right intention, contemplation, and mental discipline—has spiritual efficacy and is presented as a cause for attaining heaven.

What is happening in the narrative?

Maheśvara addresses an ‘auspicious lady’ and introduces a didactic point: he urges her to listen while he explains how those devoted to mental dharma attain svarga.