Shloka 64

Adhyaya 17: लिङ्गोद्भव—ब्रह्मविष्ण्वहङ्कार-शमनं, ओंकार-प्रादुर्भावः, मन्त्र-तत्त्वं च

Devanagari script

बीजी च बीजं तद्योनिर् नादाख्यश् च महेश्वरः बीजी विभज्य चात्मानं स्वेच्छया तु व्यवस्थितः

Transliteration

bījī ca bījaṃ tadyonir nādākhyaś ca maheśvaraḥ bījī vibhajya cātmānaṃ svecchayā tu vyavasthitaḥ

Translation

Mahādeva é Ele mesmo o Portador da Semente e a Semente; é também a Matriz dessa semente e o Senhor conhecido como Nāda, o Som primordial. Dividindo o Seu próprio Ser como Portador da Semente, Ele permanece estabelecido por Sua livre vontade.

Word by Word

• bījī: the Seed-bearer (cause possessing the power of manifestation)

• ca: and

• bījam: the seed (primordial causal potency)

• tat-yoniḥ: the womb/source of that (matrix of manifestation)

• nāda-ākhyaḥ: named/known as Nāda (primordial sound-vibration)

• ca: and

• maheśvaraḥ: Maheshvara, the Supreme Lord

• bījī: as the Seed-bearer

• vibhajya: having divided/differentiated

• ca: and

• ātmānam: His own Self

• sva-icchayā: by His own will (svātantrya)

• tu: indeed

• vyavasthitaḥ: remains established/abides in ordered presence.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga’s primordial manifestation to the sages of Naimisharanya)