Shloka 64

Adhyaya 17: लिङ्गोद्भव—ब्रह्मविष्ण्वहङ्कार-शमनं, ओंकार-प्रादुर्भावः, मन्त्र-तत्त्वं च

Devanagari script

बीजी च बीजं तद्योनिर् नादाख्यश् च महेश्वरः बीजी विभज्य चात्मानं स्वेच्छया तु व्यवस्थितः

Transliteration

bījī ca bījaṃ tadyonir nādākhyaś ca maheśvaraḥ bījī vibhajya cātmānaṃ svecchayā tu vyavasthitaḥ

Translation

Si Mahādeva mismo ang Tagapagdala ng Binhi at ang Binhi; Siya rin ang sinapupunan ng binhing iyon, at ang Panginoong kilala bilang Nāda—ang unang Tunog. Sa paghahati ng Kanyang Sarili bilang Tagapagdala ng Binhi, Siya’y nananatiling nakatatag ayon sa Kanyang malayang kalooban.

Word by Word

• bījī: the Seed-bearer (cause possessing the power of manifestation)

• ca: and

• bījam: the seed (primordial causal potency)

• tat-yoniḥ: the womb/source of that (matrix of manifestation)

• nāda-ākhyaḥ: named/known as Nāda (primordial sound-vibration)

• ca: and

• maheśvaraḥ: Maheshvara, the Supreme Lord

• bījī: as the Seed-bearer

• vibhajya: having divided/differentiated

• ca: and

• ātmānam: His own Self

• sva-icchayā: by His own will (svātantrya)

• tu: indeed

• vyavasthitaḥ: remains established/abides in ordered presence.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga’s primordial manifestation to the sages of Naimisharanya)