Shloka 109

Adhyaya 8: Yogasthanas, Ashtanga Yoga, Pranayama-Siddhi, and Shiva-Dhyana leading to Samadhi

Devanagari script

देहमध्ये शिवं देवं शुद्धज्ञानमयं विभुम् कन्यसेनैव मार्गेण चोद्घातेनापि शंकरम्

Transliteration

dehamadhye śivaṃ devaṃ śuddhajñānamayaṃ vibhum kanyasenaiva mārgeṇa codghātenāpi śaṃkaram

Translation

देहमध्ये शिवं देवं शुद्धज्ञानमयं विभुम् । कन्यसेनैव मार्गेण चोद्घातेनापि शंकरम् ॥

Word by Word

• देहमध्ये: within the body

• शिवम्: Śiva (auspicious Lord)

• देवम्: the God

• शुद्ध-ज्ञान-मयम्: consisting of pure consciousness/knowledge

• विभुम्: the all-pervading, sovereign Lord

• कन्यसेन एव: by the most subtle/inner (lit. ‘the lesser/finer’) means alone

• मार्गेण: by the path/method

• च: and

• उद्घातेन अपि: also by (the practice of) awakening/opening

• शंकरम्: Śaṅkara (the beneficent Lord Śiva)

Speaker

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