Shloka 149

Adhyaya 72 — Puradāha: Rudra’s Cosmic Chariot, Pāśupata-Vrata, and Brahmā’s Shiva-Stuti

Devanagari script

धारणाभ्यासयुक्तानां पुरस्तात्संस्थिताय च ध्यानाय ध्यानरूपाय ध्यानगम्याय ते नमः

Transliteration

dhāraṇābhyāsayuktānāṃ purastātsaṃsthitāya ca dhyānāya dhyānarūpāya dhyānagamyāya te namaḥ

Translation

Kính lễ Ngài—Đấng hiện tiền trước những người tinh cần tu tập dhāraṇā; Đấng chính là Thiền định; thân tướng là Thiền định; và được chứng đạt nhờ Thiền định. Lạy Pati, Đấng giải thoát paśu khỏi pāśa, kính lễ Ngài.

Word by Word

• dhāraṇā: concentration/steadfast fixing of awareness

• abhyāsa: repeated practice

• yuktānām: of those who are joined to/engaged in

• purastāt: in front, before (as the immediate presence)

• saṃsthitāya: abiding/standing, established

• ca: and

• dhyānāya: to (You who are) meditation

• dhyāna-rūpāya: whose form/nature is meditation

• dhyāna-gamyāya: attainable/realizable through meditation

• te: to You

• namaḥ: salutation, reverent bow

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages at Naimisharanya; a dhyāna-stuti within the Linga Purana’s Shaiva teaching context)

Characters & Entities

• Shiva

FAQs

What is the importance of this verse in the context of Linga worship?

It shifts worship from external offering alone to inner upāsanā: Shiva is to be approached as the living presence revealed through dhāraṇā and dhyāna—making meditation a core limb of Linga-centered devotion.

How does this verse describe the nature of Shiva (Shiva-tattva)?

Shiva is presented as both the object and the very essence of contemplation—dhyāna itself, the form of dhyāna, and the goal reached by dhyāna—indicating Pati as transcendent yet immediately manifest to the yogin.

What ritualistic or Yogic practice is highlighted here?

Dhāraṇā-abhyāsa leading into dhyāna: sustained concentration and meditative absorption through which Shiva becomes directly ‘present before’ the practitioner, a hallmark of Pāśupata-oriented inner sādhanā.