Shloka 22

Adhyaya 75: Nishkala–Sakala Shiva, Twofold Linga, and the Supremacy of Dhyana-Yajna

Devanagari script

ज्ञानिनां सूक्ष्मममलं भवेत्प्रत्यक्षमव्ययम् यथा स्थूलमयुक्तानां मृत्काष्ठाद्यैः प्रकल्पितम्

Transliteration

jñānināṃ sūkṣmamamalaṃ bhavetpratyakṣamavyayam yathā sthūlamayuktānāṃ mṛtkāṣṭhādyaiḥ prakalpitam

Translation

ज्ञानियों के लिए सूक्ष्म, निर्मल और अव्यय तत्त्व प्रत्यक्ष हो जाता है; पर अयुक्त-असंयमी जन उसे मिट्टी, काष्ठ आदि से बने स्थूल रूपों में ही कल्पित करते हैं।

Word by Word

• ज्ञानिनाम्: of the knowers

• सूक्ष्मम्: subtle (beyond gross perception)

• अमलम्: stainless, pure

• भवेत्: becomes

• प्रत्यक्षम्: directly perceived/manifest

• अव्ययम्: imperishable, undecaying

• यथा: just as

• स्थूलम्: gross, material

• अयुक्तानाम्: of the unyoked/undisciplined (lacking yoga)

• मृत्: clay

• काष्ठ-आद्यैः: by wood and other materials

• प्रकल्पितम्: imagined, constructed, conceived

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the teaching within the Linga Purana’s Shaiva doctrine)