Shloka 55

अध्याय १६ — शङ्कर-उमा-वरदानम् तथा तण्डि-स्तुतिः (Śaṅkara–Umā Boon-Granting and Taṇḍi’s Hymn)

Devanagari script

एतत्‌ परममानन्दं यत्‌ तच्छाश्वतमेव च । एषा गतिर्विरेक्तानामेष भाव: पर: सताम्‌

Transliteration

etat paramamānandaṃ yat tacchāśvatam eva ca | eṣā gatir virektānām eṣa bhāvaḥ paraḥ satām |

Translation

Vāyu nói: “Đây chính là đại lạc tối thượng, và chỉ điều này là vĩnh cửu. Ngài là nơi nương tựa rốt ráo của kẻ ly tham, và là trạng thái nội tâm cao nhất mà bậc chân thiện hướng đến.”

Word by Word

• एतत्: this (indeed)
• एतत्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• परमम्: supreme
• परमम्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: परम
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• आनन्दम्: bliss
• आनन्दम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: आनन्द
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• यत्: which/that
• यत्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• तत्: that
• तत्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• शाश्वतम्: eternal
• शाश्वतम्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शाश्वत
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• एव: indeed/only
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• एषा: this (she/this one)
• एषा: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• गतिः: goal/way/refuge
• गतिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: गति
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• विरेक्तानाम्: of the detached/renunciant ones
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वि-रिच् (विरेक्त) / विरेक्‍त
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• एष: this (he/this one)
• एष: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• भावः: state/nature/attainment
• भावः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: भाव
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• परः: supreme
• परः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सताम्: of the good/virtuous (people)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: सत्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyudeva

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse identifies the highest reality as simultaneously supreme bliss and the eternal principle, presenting it as the ultimate goal for the detached and the highest realization of the virtuous—linking ethical purity and renunciation to spiritual culmination.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva is speaking in praise of the supreme divine principle (understood in context as the highest Lord/reality), describing it as the eternal and blissful end sought by renunciants and realized by the good.