Shloka 50

अध्याय 91: अरिष्ट-लक्षण, मृत्यु-संस्कार, पाशुपत-धारणा तथा ओङ्कार-उपासना

Devanagari script

अप्रमत्तेन वेद्धव्यं शरवत् तन्मयो भवेत् ओमित्येकाक्षरं ह्येतद् गुहायां निहितं पदम्

Transliteration

apramattena veddhavyaṃ śaravat tanmayo bhavet omityekākṣaraṃ hyetad guhāyāṃ nihitaṃ padam

Translation

अप्रमाद से, बाण की भाँति (अन्तःसत्य को) वेधना चाहिए; तब साधक उसी का स्वरूप हो जाता है। क्योंकि ‘ओम्’ यह एकाक्षर पद हृदय-गुहा में निहित रहस्य है।

Word by Word

• apramattena: with alertness, without negligence

• veddhavyam: should be pierced/penetrated (as a target)

• śaravat: like an arrow

• tan-mayaḥ: of That-nature, absorbed in That (Shiva-tattva)

• bhavet: one becomes

• om iti: ‘Om’

• eka-akṣaram: one-syllabled

• hi: indeed

• etat: this

• guhāyām: in the cave (heart-cave, inner recess)

• nihitam: placed/hidden

• padam: state, abode, supreme station

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva’s esoteric teaching on Pranava within the Linga Purana discourse)