Shloka 25

योगान्तरायाः, औपसर्गिकसिद्धयः, परवैराग्येन शैवप्रसादः

Devanagari script

प्राजापत्ये त्वहङ्कारं ब्राह्मे बोधमनुत्तमम् आद्ये चाष्टौ द्वितीये च तथा षोडशरूपकम्

Transliteration

prājāpatye tvahaṅkāraṃ brāhme bodhamanuttamam ādye cāṣṭau dvitīye ca tathā ṣoḍaśarūpakam

Translation

プラジャーパティヤ（創造）の位においては、我執（ahaṅkāra）が生起する。ブラフマの位においては、無上の覚醒（buddhi）がある。第一の群には八つの形があり、第二にもまた八つがある。さらに十六相の構成もある—かくして顕現の構造が説き示される。

Word by Word

• प्राजापत्ये: in the Prajāpatya (Prajāpati-related, creative) order

• तु: indeed

• अहङ्कारम्: ego-principle, I-maker (ahaṅkāra)

• ब्राह्मे: in the Brahmic (Brahmā-related) order

• बोधम्: awakening, intelligence, cognition (buddhi/jñāna)

• अनुत्तमम्: unsurpassed, supreme

• आद्ये: in the first (category/sequence)

• च: and

• अष्टौ: eight

• द्वितीये: in the second

• च: and

• तथा: likewise

• षोडश-रूपकम्: having sixteen forms, sixteenfold configuration

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological tattva-sequence as taught in the Linga Purana tradition)