Shloka 8

Adhyaya 34: भस्ममहात्म्यं—अग्नीषोमात्मक-शिवतत्त्वं तथा पाशुपतव्रतप्रशंसा

Devanagari script

तस्माद्भस्म महाभागा मद्वीर्यमिति चोच्यते स्ववीर्यं वपुषा चैव धारयामीति वै स्थितिः

Transliteration

tasmādbhasma mahābhāgā madvīryamiti cocyate svavīryaṃ vapuṣā caiva dhārayāmīti vai sthitiḥ

Translation

ਇਸ ਲਈ, ਹੇ ਮਹਾਭਾਗਵਾਨੋ, ਇਹ ਭਸਮ ‘ਮੇਰਾ ਵੀਰਯ (ਸ਼ਕਤੀ)’ ਕਹੀ ਜਾਂਦੀ ਹੈ। ਸਿੱਧ ਸਤਿ ਇਹ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਮੈਂ ਆਪਣੀ ਹੀ ਸ਼ਕਤੀ ਨੂੰ ਆਪਣੇ ਹੀ ਦੇਹ ਵਿੱਚ ਧਾਰਨ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ।

Word by Word

• तस्मात्: therefore/from that cause

• भस्म: sacred ash (vibhūti)

• महाभागाः: O greatly fortunate ones

• मद्वीर्यम्: my potency/virya

• इति: thus

• च: and

• उच्यते: is called/said

• स्ववीर्यम्: one’s own potency

• वपुषा: by/within the body, in embodied form

• च एव: and indeed

• धारयामि: I bear/sustain/hold

• इति: thus

• वै: certainly/indeed

• स्थितिः: established doctrine/settled principle

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva’s doctrine within the Bhasma context)