Shloka 2

दारुवनलीला—नीललोहितपरीक्षा, ब्रह्मोपदेशः, अतिथिधर्मः, संन्यासक्रमः

Devanagari script

कथं दारुवनं प्राप्तो भगवान्नीललोहितः विकृतं रूपमास्थाय चोर्ध्वरेता दिगम्बरः

Transliteration

kathaṃ dāruvanaṃ prāpto bhagavānnīlalohitaḥ vikṛtaṃ rūpamāsthāya cordhvaretā digambaraḥ

Translation

福徳なるニーラローヒタは、いかにしてダーラヴァナの森に至ったのか。常ならぬ異相を帯びて—精力を上方へと転じた苦行者（ūrdhva-retas）、方角を衣とする裸形者（digambara）として—世の縛りを超えた主パティの真理を顕すためである。

Word by Word

• कथम्: how?

• दारुवनम्: the forest of Dāruvana (pine/cedar-grove)

• प्राप्तः: reached/arrived

• भगवान्: the Blessed Lord

• नीललोहितः: Nīlalohita (the Blue-and-Red Lord, a form of Śiva)

• विकृतम्: altered/strange/unconventional

• रूपम्: form

• आस्थाय: having assumed

• च: and

• ऊर्ध्वरेता: one whose semen/creative power is sublimated upward (brahmacarya-yogic mastery)

• दिगम्बरः: sky-clad, naked, clothed by the quarters

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)