Shloka 137

ध्यानयोगेन रुद्रदर्शनम् — रुद्रावतार-परिवर्तक्रमः, लकुली (कायावतार), पाशुपतयोगः, लिङ्गार्चन-निष्ठा

Devanagari script

यदाचरेत्तपश्चायं सर्वद्वन्द्वविवर्जितम् तदा स मुक्तो मन्तव्यः पक्वं फलमिव स्थितः

Transliteration

yadācarettapaścāyaṃ sarvadvandvavivarjitam tadā sa mukto mantavyaḥ pakvaṃ phalamiva sthitaḥ

Translation

ਜਦੋਂ ਕੋਈ ਇਹ ਤਪੱਸਿਆ ਸਭ ਦਵੰਦਾਂ ਤੋਂ ਰਹਿਤ—ਸੁਖ-ਦੁੱਖ, ਮਾਨ-ਅਪਮਾਨ ਤੋਂ ਉਪਰ—ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈ, ਤਦ ਉਹ ਮੁਕਤ ਸਮਝਿਆ ਜਾਵੇ; ਪੱਕੇ ਫਲ ਵਾਂਗ ਅਡੋਲ।

Word by Word

• yadā: when

• caret: one practises/undertakes

• tapaḥ: austerity, disciplined spiritual heat

• ca: and

• ayam: this

• sarva: all

• dvandva: pairs of opposites (pleasure/pain etc.)

• vivarjitam: devoid of, free from

• tadā: then

• saḥ: he

• muktaḥ: liberated, released (from pāśa/bondage)

• mantavyaḥ: should be regarded/known

• pakvam: ripened

• phalam: fruit

• iva: like

• sthitaḥ: abiding, established

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Linga Purana teachings to the sages of Naimisharanya; verse expresses the Shaiva criterion of mukti through dvandva-rahitatva)