Shloka 150

Adhyaya 72 — Puradāha: Rudra’s Cosmic Chariot, Pāśupata-Vrata, and Brahmā’s Shiva-Stuti

Devanagari script

ध्येयाय ध्येयगम्याय ध्येयध्यानाय ते नमः ध्येयानामपि ध्येयाय नमो ध्येयतमाय ते

Transliteration

dhyeyāya dhyeyagamyāya dhyeyadhyānāya te namaḥ dhyeyānāmapi dhyeyāya namo dhyeyatamāya te

Translation

हे ध्येयस्वरूप! ध्यान से प्राप्त होने योग्य, और स्वयं ध्यानरूप—आपको नमस्कार। समस्त ध्येयों के भी परम ध्येय, अति सूक्ष्मतम ध्येय—आपको नमो नमः।

Word by Word

• ध्येयाय: to the One who is fit to be meditated upon

• ध्येयगम्याय: to the One reached/attained through meditation

• ध्येयध्यानाय: to the One who is the meditation of/within the meditated (the inner act of contemplation)

• ते: to You

• नमः: salutation

• ध्येयानाम्: of (all) objects worthy of contemplation

• अपि: even/indeed

• ध्येयाय: to the Supreme Object of meditation

• नमो: salutation

• ध्येयतमाय: to the most meditatable/most subtle and supreme object of contemplation

• ते: to You

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a Shiva-stuti within the Linga Purana discourse)