Shloka 19

Adhyaya 8: Yogasthanas, Ashtanga Yoga, Pranayama-Siddhi, and Shiva-Dhyana leading to Samadhi

Devanagari script

मेध्या स्वनारी सम्भोगं कृत्वा स्नानं समाचरेत् एवं गृहस्थो युक्तात्मा ब्रह्मचारी न संशयः

Transliteration

medhyā svanārī sambhogaṃ kṛtvā snānaṃ samācaret evaṃ gṛhastho yuktātmā brahmacārī na saṃśayaḥ

Translation

अपनी पत्नी के साथ शुद्ध विधि से संगम करके स्नान करे। इस प्रकार संयमित और अंतर्मुख गृहस्थ निःसंदेह ब्रह्मचारी है।

Word by Word

• मेध्या (medhyā): purified/fit for ritual purity

• स्वनारी (svanārī): one’s own wife

• सम्भोगं (sambhogaṃ): conjugal union

• कृत्वा (kṛtvā): having done

• स्नानं (snānaṃ): bathing/ritual bath

• समाचरेत् (samācaret): should properly perform

• एवं (evaṃ): thus

• गृहस्थः (gṛhasthaḥ): householder

• युक्तात्मा (yuktātmā): disciplined/collected in mind, yoked to yoga

• ब्रह्मचारी (brahmacārī): one established in brahmacarya (continence/regulated conduct)

• न (na): not

• संशयः (saṃśayaḥ): doubt.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the dharma-teaching within the Linga Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya)