Shloka 10

Adhyaya 87 — Saṃsāra-viṣa-kathana: Ājñā-śakti, Māyā-bandha, and Mokṣa by Prasāda

Devanagari script

तामाज्ञां सम्प्रविश्याहं चिन्तयन् जगतां हितम् सप्तविंशत्प्रकारेण सर्वं व्याप्यानया शिवः

Transliteration

tāmājñāṃ sampraviśyāhaṃ cintayan jagatāṃ hitam saptaviṃśatprakāreṇa sarvaṃ vyāpyānayā śivaḥ

Translation

ആ ആജ്ഞയിൽ പ്രവേശിച്ച്, ലോകങ്ങളുടെ ഹിതം ചിന്തിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് ഞാൻ—ശിവൻ—ഇരുപത്തേഴു രീതികളിൽ എല്ലാം വ്യാപിച്ചു; ഈ ശക്തിയാൽ ശിവൻ സർവ്വവ്യാപിയാകുന്നു.

Word by Word

• ताम् (tām): that

• आज्ञाम् (ājñām): command/ordinance

• सम्प्रविश्य (sampraviśya): having entered into

• अहम् (aham): I

• चिन्तयन् (cintayan): contemplating/being intent on

• जगताम् (jagatām): of the worlds

• हितम् (hitam): welfare/benefit

• सप्तविंशत् (saptaviṃśat): twenty-seven

• प्रकारेण (prakāreṇa): by modes/ways

• सर्वम् (sarvam): everything

• व्याप्य (vyāpya): pervading

• अनया (anayā): by this (power/means)

• शिवः (śivaḥ): Śiva (the auspicious Lord, Pati).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating an internal first-person statement attributed to Shiva’s functioning through divine command)