Shloka 21

Adhyaya 75: Nishkala–Sakala Shiva, Twofold Linga, and the Supremacy of Dhyana-Yajna

Devanagari script

आध्यात्मिकं च यल्लिङ्गं प्रत्यक्षं यस्य नो भवेत् असौ मूढो बहिः सर्वं कल्पयित्वैव नान्यथा

Transliteration

ādhyātmikaṃ ca yalliṅgaṃ pratyakṣaṃ yasya no bhavet asau mūḍho bahiḥ sarvaṃ kalpayitvaiva nānyathā

Translation

ആധ്യാത്മികമായ അന്തർലിംഗം ആര്ക്കും പ്രത്യക്ഷമാകുന്നില്ലെങ്കിൽ, അവൻ മൂഢൻ—അവൻ എല്ലാം പുറത്തേ കൽപ്പിച്ചു കരുതുന്നു; മറ്റെങ്ങനെ അല്ല.

Word by Word

• ādhyātmikam: pertaining to the inner Self/spirit

• ca: and

• yat-liṅgam: that Linga (the inner mark of Pati, Shiva)

• pratyakṣam: directly perceived/manifest

• yasya: for whom

• na: not

• bhavet: becomes/is

• asau: that person

• mūḍhaḥ: deluded/confused

• bahiḥ: outwardly/external

• sarvam: everything

• kalpayitvā: having imagined/constructed mentally

• eva: only/indeed

• na anyathā: not otherwise

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva-tattva teaching within the Purva-Bhaga discourse)