Shloka 9

अलिङ्ग-लिङ्ग-निरूपणं तथा प्राकृत-सृष्टिवर्णनम्

Devanagari script

बीजं योनिश् च निर्बीजं निर्बीजो बीजमुच्यते बीजयोनिप्रधानानाम् आत्माख्या वर्तते त्विह

Transliteration

bījaṃ yoniś ca nirbījaṃ nirbījo bījamucyate bījayonipradhānānām ātmākhyā vartate tviha

Translation

此处说到“种子”与“胎藏（子宫）”，亦说到“无种”。那无种者本身，才被称为真实之“种子”。对于作为种子与胎藏之本原者，此处教示其名为“我（Ātman）”——指向主宰（Pati，湿婆）为超越性之因，超出原质（Prakṛti）生生对偶之上。

Word by Word

• बीजम् (bījam): seed, causal potency

• योनिः (yoniḥ): womb, matrix, generative source

• च (ca): and

• निर्बीजम् (nirbījam): seedless, without material cause

• निर्बीजः (nirbījaḥ): the Seedless One

• बीजम् (bījam): seed / ultimate cause

• उच्यते (ucyate): is said, is called

• बीज-योनि-प्रधानानाम् (bīja-yoni-pradhānānām): of that which is primary as seed and womb (the generative principles)

• आत्म-आख्या (ātma-ākhyā): the name/designation ‘Ātman’, Self

• वर्तते (vartate): is present, applies, is established

• तु (tu): indeed, however

• इह (iha): here (in this teaching/context)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana’s tattva teaching to the sages of Naimisharanya)