Shloka 52

अविमुक्तक्षेत्रमाहात्म्य — काशी-वाराणसी में मोक्ष, लिङ्ग-तीर्थ-मानचित्र, और उपासना-विधि

Devanagari script

तस्मात्संसेवनीयं हि अविमुक्तं हि मुक्तये जैगीषव्यः परां सिद्धिं गतो यत्र महातपाः

Transliteration

tasmātsaṃsevanīyaṃ hi avimuktaṃ hi muktaye jaigīṣavyaḥ parāṃ siddhiṃ gato yatra mahātapāḥ

Translation

म्हणून मुक्तीसाठी अविमुक्त (काशी) क्षेत्राचे नित्य सेवन करावे; तेथेच महातपस्वी जैगीषव्याने पाशच्छेदक पति-शिवाच्या कृपेने परम सिद्धी—मुक्ती—प्राप्त केली।

Word by Word

• tasmāt: therefore

• saṃsevanīyam: to be assiduously resorted to/served

• hi: indeed

• avimuktam: Avimukta (the never-abandoned sacred kṣetra of Śiva, i.e., Kāśī)

• muktaye: for liberation

• jaigīṣavyaḥ: (the sage) Jaigīṣavya

• parām: supreme

• siddhim: attainment/perfection

• gataḥ: attained/reached

• yatra: where

• mahā-tapāḥ: great asceticity/great tapas (one possessing intense austerity)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the kṣetra-māhātmya within the Linga Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya)