Shloka 59

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

Devanagari script

सहजागन्तुकानां च पापानां शान्तिर् उच्यते प्रशान्तिः संयमः सम्यग् वचसामिति संस्मृता

Transliteration

sahajāgantukānāṃ ca pāpānāṃ śāntir ucyate praśāntiḥ saṃyamaḥ samyag vacasāmiti saṃsmṛtā

Translation

सहज तथा आगन्तुक—दोनों प्रकार के पापों की शमन-विद्या ‘शान्ति’ कही गई है। और ‘प्रशान्ति’ का स्मरण सम्यक् संयम तथा वाणी के अनुशासित, सत्य-नियमन के रूप में किया गया है।

Word by Word

• सहज (sahaja): innate, inborn

• आगन्तुक (āgantuka): incidental, arising from external causes

• -आनाम् (-ānām): of (genitive plural)

• च (ca): and

• पापानाम् (pāpānām): of sins

• शान्तिः (śāntiḥ): pacification, appeasement, quelling

• उच्यते (ucyate): is said, is declared

• प्रशान्तिः (praśāntiḥ): deep peace, thorough pacification

• संयमः (saṃyamaḥ): restraint, self-control

• सम्यक् (samyak): rightly, properly

• वचसाम् (vacasām): of speech/words

• इति (iti): thus

• संस्मृता (saṃsmṛtā): remembered, taught in tradition.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana’s teaching to the sages of Naimisharanya)