Shloka 109

ध्यानयज्ञः, संसार-विष-निरूपणम्, पाशुपतयोगः, परा-अपरा विद्या, चतुर्वस्था-विचारः (अध्यायः ८६)

Devanagari script

अन्यत्र रमते मूढः सो ऽज्ञानी नात्र संशयः संसारहेतुरज्ञानं संसारस्तनुसंग्रहः

Transliteration

anyatra ramate mūḍhaḥ so 'jñānī nātra saṃśayaḥ saṃsāraheturajñānaṃ saṃsārastanusaṃgrahaḥ

Translation

अन्यत्र रमते मूढः सोऽज्ञानी नात्र संशयः। संसारहेतुरज्ञानं संसारस्तनुसंग्रहः॥

Word by Word

• anyatra: elsewhere/other than the Highest (Śiva)

• ramate: takes delight, revels

• mūḍhaḥ: deluded, bewildered

• saḥ: he

• ajñānī: one without true knowledge

• na atra saṃśayaḥ: there is no doubt here

• saṃsāra-hetuḥ: cause of transmigratory existence

• ajñānam: ignorance (avidyā)

• saṃsāraḥ: cycle of birth and death

• tanu-saṃgrahaḥ: gathering/appropriating bodies, clinging to embodiment

Speaker

Suta Goswami