Shloka 2

दारुवनलीला—नीललोहितपरीक्षा, ब्रह्मोपदेशः, अतिथिधर्मः, संन्यासक्रमः

Devanagari script

कथं दारुवनं प्राप्तो भगवान्नीललोहितः विकृतं रूपमास्थाय चोर्ध्वरेता दिगम्बरः

Transliteration

kathaṃ dāruvanaṃ prāpto bhagavānnīlalohitaḥ vikṛtaṃ rūpamāsthāya cordhvaretā digambaraḥ

Translation

ਭਗਵਾਨ ਨੀਲਲੋਹਿਤ ਦਾਰੂਵਨ ਨੂੰ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਪਹੁੰਚੇ—ਵਿਚਿੱਤਰ ਰੂਪ ਧਾਰ ਕੇ, ਊਰਧ੍ਵਰੇਤਾ ਅਤੇ ਦਿਗੰਬਰ ਤਪਸਵੀ ਵਜੋਂ?

Word by Word

• कथम्: how?

• दारुवनम्: the forest of Dāruvana (pine/cedar-grove)

• प्राप्तः: reached/arrived

• भगवान्: the Blessed Lord

• नीललोहितः: Nīlalohita (the Blue-and-Red Lord, a form of Śiva)

• विकृतम्: altered/strange/unconventional

• रूपम्: form

• आस्थाय: having assumed

• च: and

• ऊर्ध्वरेता: one whose semen/creative power is sublimated upward (brahmacarya-yogic mastery)

• दिगम्बरः: sky-clad, naked, clothed by the quarters

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)