Shloka 16

उमामहेश्वरव्रतं—पञ्चाक्षरमन्त्रस्य माहात्म्यं, न्यासः, जपविधिः, सदाचारः, विनियोगः

Devanagari script

वाच्यः पञ्चाक्षरैर्देवि शिवस्त्रैलोक्यपूजितः वाचकः परमो मन्त्रस् तस्य पञ्चाक्षरः स्थितः

Transliteration

vācyaḥ pañcākṣarairdevi śivastrailokyapūjitaḥ vācakaḥ paramo mantras tasya pañcākṣaraḥ sthitaḥ

Translation

ਹੇ ਦੇਵੀ, ਤ੍ਰਿਲੋਕ ਪੂਜਿਤ ਸ਼ਿਵ ਪੰਜ ਅੱਖਰਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਵਾਚ੍ਯ ਹੈ; ਅਤੇ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਵਾਚਕ ਪਰਮ ਮੰਤ੍ਰ ਵੀ ਉਸੇ ਪੰਚਾਕਸ਼ਰੀ ਰੂਪ ਵਿੱਚ ਸਥਿਤ ਹੈ।

Word by Word

• वाच्यः: the One to be expressed/denoted

• पञ्चाक्षरैः: by the five syllables (pañcākṣara)

• देवि: O Goddess

• शिवः: Śiva (Pati, the Lord)

• त्रैलोक्य-पूजितः: worshipped in the three worlds

• वाचकः: the denoter/that which expresses

• परमः: supreme

• मन्त्रः: mantra/sacred formula

• तस्य: of Him (Śiva)

• पञ्चाक्षरः: the five-syllabled (mantra)

• स्थितः: established/abides as

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating an internal Shaiva teaching on the Panchakshara)