Shloka 99

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

सर्वज्ञः सर्वविज्ञानात् सर्वः सर्वमयो यतः त्रिधा विभज्य चात्मानं त्रैलोक्यं सम्प्रवर्तते

Transliteration

sarvajñaḥ sarvavijñānāt sarvaḥ sarvamayo yataḥ tridhā vibhajya cātmānaṃ trailokyaṃ sampravartate

Translation

ਸਾਰੇ ਗਿਆਨ ਕਰਕੇ ਉਹ ‘ਸਰਵਜ੍ਞ’ ਹੈ; ਅਤੇ ਕਿਉਂਕਿ ਉਹ ਸਰਵਮਯ ਹੋ ਕੇ ਸਭ ਵਿੱਚ ਵਿਆਪਕ ਹੈ, ਇਸ ਲਈ ‘ਸਰਵ’ ਹੈ। ਉਹ ਆਪਣੇ ਆਤਮ-ਸਰੂਪ ਨੂੰ ਤਿੰਨ ਭਾਗਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਵੰਡ ਕੇ ਤ੍ਰੈਲੋਕ ਨੂੰ ਸੁਚੱਜੇ ਢੰਗ ਨਾਲ ਚਲਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ।

Word by Word

• सर्वज्ञः: omniscient

• सर्वविज्ञानात्: through complete knowledge / by virtue of all cognition

• सर्वः: the All / the universal Lord

• सर्वमयः: constituted of all / pervading all as their inner essence

• यतः: since / because

• त्रिधा: in three ways

• विभज्य: having divided / having differentiated

• च: and

• आत्मानम्: His own Self

• त्रैलोक्यम्: the three worlds (heaven, mid-region, earth)

• सम्प्रवर्तते: causes to proceed / sets into operation / sustains the cosmic activity

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Shaiva cosmological doctrine to the sages of Naimisharanya)