Shloka 26

Adhyaya 17: लिङ्गोद्भव—ब्रह्मविष्ण्वहङ्कार-शमनं, ओंकार-प्रादुर्भावः, मन्त्र-तत्त्वं च

Devanagari script

कर्ता नेता च हर्ता च न मयास्ति समो विभुः अहमेव परं ब्रह्म परं तत्त्वं पितामह

Transliteration

kartā netā ca hartā ca na mayāsti samo vibhuḥ ahameva paraṃ brahma paraṃ tattvaṃ pitāmaha

Translation

ਮੈਂ ਹੀ ਕਰਤਾ, ਨੇਤਾ ਅਤੇ ਹਰਤਾ ਹਾਂ; ਹੇ ਵਿਭੂ, ਮੇਰੇ ਬਰਾਬਰ ਕੋਈ ਨਹੀਂ। ਹੇ ਪਿਤਾਮਹ! ਮੈਂ ਹੀ ਪਰਮ ਬ੍ਰਹਮ, ਪਰਮ ਤੱਤ ਹਾਂ।

Word by Word

• कर्त्ता (kartā): creator/doer/agent

• नेता (netā): leader/guide

• हर्ता (hartā): withdrawer/destroyer/taker away

• च (ca): and

• न (na): not

• मया (mayā): by me/for me (in the sense ‘to me’)

• अस्ति (asti): is/exists

• समः (samaḥ): equal

• विभुः (vibhuḥ): all-pervading lord/mighty one

• अहम् (aham): I

• एव (eva): alone/indeed

• परम् (param): supreme

• ब्रह्म (brahma): Brahman/Absolute

• परम् (param): highest

• तत्त्वम् (tattvam): principle/reality

• पितामह (pitāmaha): O Grandfather (epithet/address)

Speaker

Shiva (as the supreme Pati declaring his transcendence during the Liṅga manifestation narrative)