Shloka 56

प्रसाद-ज्ञान-योग-मोक्षक्रमः तथा व्यास-रुद्रावतार-मन्वन्तर-परम्परा

Devanagari script

तेन प्रणीतो रुद्रेण पशूनां पतिना द्विजाः योगः पाशुपतो ज्ञेयः परावरविभूतये

Transliteration

tena praṇīto rudreṇa paśūnāṃ patinā dvijāḥ yogaḥ pāśupato jñeyaḥ parāvaravibhūtaye

Translation

हे द्विजो, पशुओं (बद्ध जीवों) के पति रुद्र द्वारा प्रणीत यह पाशुपत-योग जानने योग्य है—पर और अपर विभूतियों की प्राप्ति हेतु।

Word by Word

• तेन: by him/thereby (in this manner)

• प्रणीतः: taught, propounded

• रुद्रेण: by Rudra (Śiva)

• पशूनाम्: of the paśus (bound souls/creatures)

• पतिना: by the Lord/master (Pati)

• द्विजाः: O twice-born (brāhmaṇas)

• योगः: the yogic discipline/path

• पाशुपतः: Pāśupata (Śiva’s liberating system)

• ज्ञेयः: should be known/understood

• परावर-विभूतये: for (the attainment of) higher (para) and lower (avara) siddhis/powers

• विभूति: power, lordly attainment

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)