Shloka 94

ध्यानयज्ञः, संसार-विष-निरूपणम्, पाशुपतयोगः, परा-अपरा विद्या, चतुर्वस्था-विचारः (अध्यायः ८६)

Devanagari script

कालात्मा सोम एवेह विज्ञानमय उच्यते सदानन्दमयो भूत्वा महेशः परमेश्वरः

Transliteration

kālātmā soma eveha vijñānamaya ucyate sadānandamayo bhūtvā maheśaḥ parameśvaraḥ

Translation

ਇੱਥੇ ਕਾਲ-ਆਤਮਾ ਸੋਮ ਨੂੰ ਵਿਜ਼੍ਞਾਨਮਯ ਕਿਹਾ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ। ਉਹ ਸਦਾਨੰਦਮਯ ਹੋ ਕੇ ਮਹੇਸ਼, ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ਵਰ ਰੂਪ ਵਿੱਚ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਦਾ ਹੈ।

Word by Word

• कालात्मा: whose self is Time / the indwelling soul of time

• सोमः: Soma (the lunar deity

• एव: indeed

• इह: here, in this context

• विज्ञानमयः: constituted of higher knowing/consciousness

• उच्यते: is said, is declared

• सदानन्दमयः: made of eternal bliss

• भूत्वा: having become, being

• महेशः: Mahesha, the Great Lord

• परमेश्वरः: Parameśvara, the Supreme Lord

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya; verse describing Shiva-tattva through the epithet 'Soma')