Shloka 30
पापभेदवर्णनम्
Classification of Sins / Taxonomy of Pāpa
नियमान्स्वयमादाय ये त्यजंत्यजितेन्द्रियाः । प्रव्रज्यावासिता ये च हरस्यास्यप्रभेदकाः
niyamānsvayamādāya ye tyajaṃtyajitendriyāḥ | pravrajyāvāsitā ye ca harasyāsyaprabhedakāḥ
जे स्वतः नियम स्वीकारूनही इंद्रिये न जिंकता ते सोडून देतात, आणि जे केवळ बाह्य प्रव्रज्या-वास धारण करतात—ते या हराच्या मार्गोपदेशाचे भेदक ठरतात.
Suta Goswami
Tattva Level: pashu
Shiva Form: Dakṣiṇāmūrti
Significance: Warns against pseudo-renunciation; true Śiva-mārga requires indriya-jaya and sustained niyama, removing pāśa (bondage) rather than intensifying it through hypocrisy.
Role: teaching
FAQs
It warns that discipline without sense-control becomes unstable, and that mere external renunciation without inner mastery turns into a force that confuses and harms Shiva’s liberating path.
Linga-worship is meant to purify the mind through devotion and restraint; this verse emphasizes that Saguna Shiva’s worship bears fruit when supported by conquered senses and sincere observance, not by outward religious display.
Steady niyamas with genuine indriya-nigraha (sense-restraint) alongside Shiva-japa—especially the Panchakshara mantra (Om Namah Shivaya)—is implied as the practical safeguard against hollow asceticism.