Shloka 57

अध्याय 91: अरिष्ट-लक्षण, मृत्यु-संस्कार, पाशुपत-धारणा तथा ओङ्कार-उपासना

Devanagari script

तस्माद्ध्यानरतिर्नित्यम् अमात्रं हि तदक्षरम् उपास्यं हि प्रयत्नेन शाश्वतं सुखमिच्छता

Transliteration

tasmāddhyānaratirnityam amātraṃ hi tadakṣaram upāsyaṃ hi prayatnena śāśvataṃ sukhamicchatā

Translation

ਇਸ ਲਈ ਸਦਾ ਧਿਆਨ ਵਿੱਚ ਰਤੀ ਰੱਖੋ; ਕਿਉਂਕਿ ਉਹ ਅੱਖਰ ਅਮਾਤ੍ਰ—ਅਖੰਡ—ਹੈ। ਜੋ ਸ਼ਾਸ਼ਵਤ ਸੁਖ ਚਾਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ, ਉਹ ਯਤਨ ਨਾਲ ਉਸ ਦੀ ਉਪਾਸਨਾ ਕਰੇ।

Word by Word

• तस्मात्: therefore

• ध्यान-रतिः: delight/absorption in meditation

• नित्यम्: always

• अमात्रम्: beyond measure, without parts (beyond the mātrās of sound/Om)

• हि: indeed

• तत्: that

• अक्षरम्: the Imperishable (Akṣara, Supreme principle)

• उपास्यम्: to be worshipped/steadily contemplated

• हि: surely

• प्रयत्नेन: with effort, discipline

• शाश्वतम्: eternal

• सुखम्: bliss

• इच्छता: by one who desires

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the teaching to the sages of Naimisharanya)