Shloka 96

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

Devanagari script

एकत्वमपि नास्त्येव द्वैतं तत्र कुतस्त्वहो एवं नास्त्यथ मर्त्यं च कुतो ऽमृतमजोद्भवः

Transliteration

ekatvamapi nāstyeva dvaitaṃ tatra kutastvaho evaṃ nāstyatha martyaṃ ca kuto 'mṛtamajodbhavaḥ

Translation

ਉਸ ਪਰਮ ਸ਼ਿਵ-ਤੱਤ ਵਿੱਚ ‘ਏਕਤਾ’ ਵੀ ਸਥਾਪਿਤ ਨਹੀਂ; ਤਾਂ ਉੱਥੇ ਦ੍ਵੈਤ ਕਿੱਥੋਂ ਹੋਵੇ? ਜਦ ਭੇਦ ਹੀ ਨਹੀਂ, ਤਾਂ ‘ਮਰਤ੍ਯ’ ਕੀ; ਅਤੇ ‘ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤ’ ਕਿਵੇਂ, ਹੇ ਅਜੋਦਭਵ (ਬ੍ਰਹਮਾ)!

Word by Word

• एकत्वम् (ekatvam): oneness/non-duality as a concept

• अपि (api): even

• न (na): not

• अस्ति (asti): exists/is applicable

• एव (eva): indeed

• द्वैतम् (dvaitam): duality

• तत्र (tatra): there, in that supreme principle

• कुतः (kutaḥ): whence/how

• त्व् (tv): indeed (emphatic particle)

• अहो (aho): alas/indeed (exclamation)

• एवम् (evam): thus/in this way

• नास्ति (nāsti): does not exist/is not applicable

• अथ (atha): then/also

• मर्त्यम् (martyam): mortal condition

• च (ca): and

• कुतः (kutaḥ): how/whence

• अमृतम् (amṛtam): immortality/undying state

• अज-उद्भव (aja-udbhava): ‘born from the Unborn’—epithet addressing Brahmā

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a Shaiva metaphysical teaching within the chapter)