Shloka 99

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

सर्वज्ञः सर्वविज्ञानात् सर्वः सर्वमयो यतः त्रिधा विभज्य चात्मानं त्रैलोक्यं सम्प्रवर्तते

Transliteration

sarvajñaḥ sarvavijñānāt sarvaḥ sarvamayo yataḥ tridhā vibhajya cātmānaṃ trailokyaṃ sampravartate

Translation

あらゆる知によって全知であり、また万有に遍満し万有そのものとなるがゆえに「一切」である。彼は自らのアートマンを三つに分かち、それによって三界を秩序正しく運行させる。

Word by Word

• सर्वज्ञः: omniscient

• सर्वविज्ञानात्: through complete knowledge / by virtue of all cognition

• सर्वः: the All / the universal Lord

• सर्वमयः: constituted of all / pervading all as their inner essence

• यतः: since / because

• त्रिधा: in three ways

• विभज्य: having divided / having differentiated

• च: and

• आत्मानम्: His own Self

• त्रैलोक्यम्: the three worlds (heaven, mid-region, earth)

• सम्प्रवर्तते: causes to proceed / sets into operation / sustains the cosmic activity

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Shaiva cosmological doctrine to the sages of Naimisharanya)