Shloka 21

Adhyaya 75: Nishkala–Sakala Shiva, Twofold Linga, and the Supremacy of Dhyana-Yajna

Devanagari script

आध्यात्मिकं च यल्लिङ्गं प्रत्यक्षं यस्य नो भवेत् असौ मूढो बहिः सर्वं कल्पयित्वैव नान्यथा

Transliteration

ādhyātmikaṃ ca yalliṅgaṃ pratyakṣaṃ yasya no bhavet asau mūḍho bahiḥ sarvaṃ kalpayitvaiva nānyathā

Translation

ผู้ใดที่ลึงคะฝ่ายอธยात्मิกะภายในไม่ปรากฏแก่ตนโดยตรง ผู้นั้นหลงผิด—ย่อมจินตนาการทุกสิ่งไว้แต่ภายนอกเท่านั้น มิใช่อย่างอื่น

Word by Word

• ādhyātmikam: pertaining to the inner Self/spirit

• ca: and

• yat-liṅgam: that Linga (the inner mark of Pati, Shiva)

• pratyakṣam: directly perceived/manifest

• yasya: for whom

• na: not

• bhavet: becomes/is

• asau: that person

• mūḍhaḥ: deluded/confused

• bahiḥ: outwardly/external

• sarvam: everything

• kalpayitvā: having imagined/constructed mentally

• eva: only/indeed

• na anyathā: not otherwise

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva-tattva teaching within the Purva-Bhaga discourse)