Shloka 29

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

अणवे महते चैव नमः सर्वगताय च नमो बन्धाय मोक्षाय स्वर्गाय नरकाय च

Transliteration

aṇave mahate caiva namaḥ sarvagatāya ca namo bandhāya mokṣāya svargāya narakāya ca

Translation

အဏုအလွန်သေးငယ်ဆုံးလည်း ဖြစ်တော်မူ၍ မဟာအကျယ်အဝန်းအကြီးဆုံးလည်း ဖြစ်တော်မူသော အရှင်ထံ နမော; အလုံးစုံတွင် ပျံ့နှံ့တော်မူသော အရှင်ထံ နမော။ ချည်နှောင်မှု (bandha) အဖြစ်လည်း၊ လွတ်မြောက်ခြင်း (mokṣa) အဖြစ်လည်း; ကောင်းကင်ဘုံအဖြစ်လည်း၊ နရကအဖြစ်လည်း ဖြစ်တော်မူသော အရှင်ထံ နမော။

Word by Word

• अणवे (aṇave): to the atomic/subtlest principle

• महते (mahate): to the Great/Vast (Mahān, cosmic magnitude)

• चैव (caiva): and indeed

• नमः (namaḥ): salutations

• सर्वगताय (sarvagatāya): to the all-pervading one

• च (ca): and

• नमो (namo): salutations

• बन्धाय (bandhāya): to bondage (pāśa, the binding power)

• मोक्षाय (mokṣāya): to liberation (release of the paśu)

• स्वर्गाय (svargāya): to heaven

• नरकाय (narakāya): to hell

• च (ca): and

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a Shiva-stuti within the Purva-Bhaga context)

Characters & Entities

• Shiva

FAQs

What is the importance of this verse in the context of Linga worship?

It frames the Linga as the sign of Shiva’s all-inclusive reality—worship is not for a limited boon, but for the Pati who pervades every state (svarga/naraka) and every scale (atom to cosmic vastness).

How does this verse describe the nature of Shiva (Shiva-tattva)?

Shiva is presented as both transcendent and immanent: subtler than the aṇu and greater than the mahat, and as the regulator of pāśa (bondage) and mokṣa (release) for the paśu (individual soul).

What ritualistic or Yogic practice is highlighted here?

A stuti-based upāsanā (devotional contemplation) that supports Pashupata-oriented vairāgya: seeing all experiences—including heaven and hell—as within Shiva, the sādhaka seeks mokṣa rather than merely svarga.