Shloka 86

मुनिमोहशमनम्

Pāśupata-yoga, Siddhis, Puruṣa-darśana, Saṃsāra, and Prāṇa-Rudra Pañcāhutī

Devanagari script

प्राणे निविष्टो वै रुद्रस् तस्मात्प्राणमयः स्वयम् प्राणाय चैव रुद्राय जुहोत्यमृतमुत्तमम्

Transliteration

prāṇe niviṣṭo vai rudras tasmātprāṇamayaḥ svayam prāṇāya caiva rudrāya juhotyamṛtamuttamam

Translation

ਰੁਦ੍ਰ ਨਿਸਚੇ ਹੀ ਪ੍ਰਾਣ ਵਿੱਚ ਨਿਵਾਸ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈ; ਇਸ ਲਈ ਉਹ ਆਪ ਪ੍ਰਾਣਮਯ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਕਰਕੇ ਪ੍ਰਾਣ ਨੂੰ ਅਤੇ ਰੁਦ੍ਰ ਨੂੰ—ਇੱਕ ਹੀ ਤੱਤ ਜਾਣ ਕੇ—ਉੱਤਮ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤ ਦੀ ਆਹੁਤੀ ਦੇ।

Word by Word

• प्राणे (prāṇe): in the vital breath

• निविष्टः (niviṣṭaḥ): entered, established

• वै (vai): indeed

• रुद्रः (rudraḥ): Rudra (Śiva as the inner Lord)

• तस्मात् (tasmāt): therefore

• प्राणमयः (prāṇamayaḥ): consisting of prāṇa, pervading as life-breath

• स्वयम् (svayam): Himself

• प्राणाय (prāṇāya): unto prāṇa

• च (ca): and

• एव (eva): indeed

• रुद्राय (rudrāya): unto Rudra

• जुहोति (juhoti): one offers as oblation

• अमृतम् (amṛtam): nectar, deathless essence

• उत्तमम् (uttamam): supreme, most excellent

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the teaching within the Linga Purana’s discourse)