Shloka 76

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

Devanagari script

पातकं धारणाभिस्तु प्रत्याहारेण निर्दहेत् विषयान्विषवद्ध्यात्वा ध्यानेनानीश्वरान् गुणान्

Transliteration

pātakaṃ dhāraṇābhistu pratyāhāreṇa nirdahet viṣayānviṣavaddhyātvā dhyānenānīśvarān guṇān

Translation

पातकं धारणाभिस्तु प्रत्याहारेण निर्दहेत्। विषयान्विषवद्ध्यात्वा ध्यानेनानीश्वरान् गुणान्॥

Word by Word

• पातकम् (pātakam): sin, demerit

• धारणाभिः (dhāraṇābhiḥ): by concentrations, acts of fixing the mind

• तु (tu): indeed

• प्रत्याहारेण (pratyāhāreṇa): by withdrawal of the senses

• निर्दहेत् (nirdahet): should burn up, should incinerate

• विषयान् (viṣayān): sense-objects

• विषवत् (viṣavat): like poison

• ध्यात्वा (dhyātvā): having contemplated

• ध्यानेन (dhyānena): by meditation

• अनीश्वरान् (anīśvarān): non-lordly, not sovereign (dependent)

• गुणान् (guṇān): qualities (sattva, rajas, tamas), constituents of prakṛti

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shaiva yogic discipline within the Linga Purana’s teaching stream)