Shloka 98

उमामहेश्वरव्रतं—पञ्चाक्षरमन्त्रस्य माहात्म्यं, न्यासः, जपविधिः, सदाचारः, विनियोगः

Devanagari script

यावज्जीवं जपेन्नित्यम् अष्टोत्तरसहस्रकम् अनश्नंस्तत्परो भूत्वा स याति परमां गतिम्

Transliteration

yāvajjīvaṃ japennityam aṣṭottarasahasrakam anaśnaṃstatparo bhūtvā sa yāti paramāṃ gatim

Translation

ผู้ใดตลอดชีวิตสวดชปะทุกวันครบอัษโฏตตระ-สหัสระ (1008) โดยถืออุโบสถไม่รับประทาน และตั้งใจแน่วแน่ในพระองค์ ผู้นั้นย่อมบรรลุคติสูงสุด

Word by Word

• yāvat-jīvam: as long as one lives

• japet: should repeat/chant

• nityam: daily/constantly

• aṣṭottara-sahasrakam: the set of 1008 (names/mantras)

• anaśnan: not eating, fasting

• tat-paraḥ: wholly devoted to That (Śiva)

• bhūtvā: having become

• saḥ: he

• yāti: goes/attains

• paramām: highest/supreme

• gatim: state/goal (liberation).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Purāṇic teaching to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)