Shloka 71

एकार्णव-सृष्टिक्रमः, ब्रह्म-विष्णु-परस्परप्रवेशः, शिवस्य आगमनं च

Devanagari script

बालक्रीडनकैर्देवः क्रीडते शङ्करः स्वयम् प्रधानमव्ययो योनिर् अव्यक्तं प्रकृतिस्तमः

Transliteration

bālakrīḍanakairdevaḥ krīḍate śaṅkaraḥ svayam pradhānamavyayo yonir avyaktaṃ prakṛtistamaḥ

Translation

ਦੇਵ ਸ਼ੰਕਰ ਆਪ ਹੀ ਬੱਚੇ ਦੇ ਖਿਡੌਣਿਆਂ ਵਾਂਗ (ਜਗਤ ਨਾਲ) ਖੇਡ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈ। ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਅਵਿਨਾਸ਼ੀ ਯੋਨੀ ਹੈ; ਉਹੀ ਅਵ੍ਯਕਤ ਪ੍ਰਕ੍ਰਿਤੀ—ਤਮਸ ਤੱਤ ਹੈ।

Word by Word

• बालक्रीडनकैः: with children’s playthings/toys

• देवः: the Lord, the Divine

• क्रीडते: plays, sports

• शङ्करः: Śaṅkara (Śiva)

• स्वयम्: Himself

• प्रधानम्: Pradhāna, the primordial ground of nature

• अव्ययः: imperishable, undecaying

• योनिः: womb, source-cause

• अव्यक्तम्: the unmanifest

• प्रकृतिः: Prakṛti, material nature

• तमः: tamas, darkness/inertia

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological teaching within the Linga Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya)