Vayaviya Samhita

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Vedana is the ability to know the divine touch and the divine smell. All the lords of the worlds beginning with Brahma stand before him and give him many gems and jewels. Words naturally sweet and eloquent function through his mouth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Vedana is the ability to know the divine touch and the divine smell. All the lords of the worlds beginning with Brahma stand before him and give him many gems and jewels. Words naturally sweet and eloquent function through his mouth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The Yogic Siddhi pertaining to the earth named 'Pai4aca Pada' consists of eight types of powers, viz., lean¬ ness, bulkiness, infancy, old age, youthfulness, the ability to assume different forms and the ability to collect sveet- smelling scents without any earthly part.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Hence he who abandons the attributes and the pleasures of the gods, Asuras and kings, considering them as worthless as blades of grass acquires the greatest Yogic power.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The Mortis beginning with Brahma and ending with Sadaiva, the eight Murtis beginning with Bhava, the gross Murtis of Siva prescribed in the Saivite scriptures, the terrible, the quiet or the mixture of both shall be meditated upon by the sages without the desire for fruits, and by the experts in meditation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

If the terrible forms of the lord are meditated upon they shall dispel sins and ailments. If the mixtures of the form are contemplated upon, the effect is often delayed. If the calm and the gentle form is contemplated upon, the effect is neither immediate nor delayed. But the special benefit in the gentle form is salvation, peace and intellect. The Siddhis are achieved gradually. There is no doubt about this.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Some Yogins perform meditation with the full con¬ viction that Siddhis are immediately acquired by those who remember the lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

In order to steady the mind some perform medita¬ tion on the gross form. The mind that is fixed on the gross form becomes stable in the subtle form.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

He shall observe the steadiness of the mind and frequently meditate. This meditation, they say, has at the

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

But the intellectual vision by itself without an object shall also function. Therefore the fact is — the Savisaya meditation is on the lord who is conceived as brilliant as the sun. The meditation on the subtle form is Nirvisaya. Savisaya meditation has a definite form in view. Meditation of the formless is the Nirvisaya meditation. The two are called Nirbija and Sabija also. Hence the practiser shall at the outset perform the Savisaya or Sabija meditation and in the end perform Nirbija or Nirvisaya meditation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The benefits derived from Pranayama are Santi, Prasanti, DIpti and Prasada. When adversities subside it is called Sunti. Prasanti is the destruction of ignorance both ex¬ ternal and internal. The external and internal illumination is called DIpti. The normal and the healthy state of the intellect is called Prasada. When the intellect is in healthy normal state the internal and external sense-organs too acquire healthy and normal state,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The wonderful Yogic Siddhi pertaining to water consists of sixteen powers, viz: — he can stay under water, he can come out of the earth, at his will he can drink up even the ocean and be none the worse for it, wherever he wishes he can let water spring up or he can hold water in the palm of his hand. Whatever he wishes to eat he can transform into juicy substance, he can assume these forms, he can have the body free from cuts and wounds. Over and above these powers he can have the eight powers of the Yogins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The Yogic Siddhi called Taijasa consists of twenty- four types of powers viz: — the ability to create fire from the body, absence of fear of being scorched by the fire, the ability to burn the universe without difficulty, placing of fire in water or in the palms, re-create things burnt in fire, cook food in the mouth, create bodies with the fire and wind and above all these are the sixteen powers of the Apya Yogins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The wise know that the Yogic Siddhi called Maruta consists of thirtytwo types of powers viz: — the speed of the mind, the ability to enter the bodies of living beings, to hold weighty things like mountains etc. without difficulty, weightiness, weightlessness, holding the wind within the palms, ability to shake even the earth with the tip of the finger, to produce bodies with the wind and apart frtjm these the twenty- four powers of the Taijasa Yogins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

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The Yogic Siddhi called Aindra pertaining to the ether consists of forty powers: — Shadowlessness, absence of the sense-organs, ability to walk over the ether, to have the sense-objects at will, to transgress the ether, to instil the ether into the body, to solidify ether, having no body and

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Ability to acquire whatever is desired, to wander as he pleases, to attack all, to sec all the hidden secrets of others, to create bodies according to the task, to bring others under control, to appear pleasing, and to see the world, these powers along with those of the Aindra Yogins constitute the candramasa type of yogin. The powers are mainly mental and the number of powers is fortyeight.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Ability to cut, to strike, to bind and to release, seizure of all living beings under the influence of worldly existence, ability to delight all, mastery over death and time these arc the** special powers of the Prajapatya Yogins. These powers along with those of Candramasa Yogins are fiftysix in number.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Creation by mere conception, protection, and annihilation, ability to exercise authority to make minds function, dissimilarity with all, creation of a separate uni¬ verse doing auspicious and inauspicious things — these powers along with the Prajapatya powers, altogether numbering sixtyfour, constitute the powers of the Yogin of the Brahma type.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

This Aivarya functions through intellect. The power greater than and beyond this is the Prakrta Aisvarya called Vainava. The sustenance of the universe is his alone. Only Brahma can explain that region wholly and not others.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

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All the Siddhis due to knowledge and the Upasargas shall be checked assiduously by means of great detachment.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The great Aisvarya that affords protection and is coveted by all cannot by acquired if the mind is attached to false appearances, forms and attributes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Or the sage with Yogic powers shall move about with a desire to bless the universe. He can then enjoy the pleasures at his will and attain salvation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Now I shall explain the practice of Yoga. Listen attentively. The time and the spot shall be auspicious; it may be the temple of Siva and or other clean place; it shall be a secluded spot devoid of people, creatures, noises and other disturbances. It shall be well-scrubbed and smeared. •It shall be rendered fragrant with scents and incense. Flo¬ wers shall be strewn..There shall be canopies etc. above. The place shall be abounding in Kusa grass, flowers, sacrifi¬ cial twigs, water, fruits, roots, etc. It shall not be near fire or water-receptacles. There shall not be too many dry leaves. The place shall not be infested by flies, mosquitoes, serpents and beasts of prey. There shall not be harmful beasts or wicked men instilling terror. It shall not be the cremation ground, monastery, anthill, dilapidated house, meeting-place of high¬ ways, banks and shores of rivers and oCeans nor should it be the middle of streets. It shall not be a park in disrepair nor a dilapidated cowshed. It shall not be displeasing nor repulsive. It shall not have been defiled by vomited material or undigested foul smell or faeces and urine. The Yogin shall not practise when he has vomiting or when he suffers from diarrhoea, when he has taken too much of food, or when he has exhausted himself. If he is too hungry or too thirsty or too much worried he shall not practise Yoga. If he is enga¬ ged in any of the tasks set by his preceptor he shall not practise Yoga.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

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He shall have proper food and activity. He shall be sober in recreation and rest. Both his sleep and wakefulness shall be of the normal proper nature. He shall eschew all tiresomeness. The seat shall be soft, pleasant, sufficiently wide, level and pure. He shall practise one of the poses Padmaka, Svastika and others.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

He shall pay homage to all those venerable persons who reside with his' preceptors. He shall keep his head and chest erect. The head shall be lifted up a little. The teeth should not gnash one another. The tongue should be kept well within the teeth and motionless. The scrotum

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

He shall remember the lord at the root or tip of the nose, or in the umbilicus, or neck, or in the palate or the gullet or in the middle of the eyebrows or at the jiostrils or in the forehead or on the head. After conceiving a suitable seat to Siva and Siva he shall remember Siva with or without Avarana in the two-petalled, or twelve-pe tailed lotus in accordance with injunction. Or it may be in the ten-petalled six-cornered or four-cornered lotus.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The lotus shall be conceived in the middle of the eye-brows as having two petals and as brilliant as light¬ ning. To the south and north of the lotus in the middle of the eyebrow two leaves shall be conceived with the colour of lightning ending with letters. The leaves of the sixteen- petalled lotus are the sixteen vowels. They shall be conceived beginning from the petal to the east and proceeding in order.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The twelve letters beginning with 'Ka' and ending with 'Tha' are the leaves. The lotus of the colour of the sun, which is meditated inside the heart and which is of the colour of the cow's milk has ten letters from "Da" to "Pha" for its petals. The letters upto the letter "La'* (i.e Ba, Bha, Ma, Ya, Ra and La) constitute the six petals of the lotus with petals facing down and having the colour of the smoke- * less burning coal. The letters from "Va" to "Sa" consti¬ tute the petals of the lotus at the Muladhara, having the colour of gold.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

He shall meditate on the lord and the goddess in any of these lotuses according to his taste. The mind shall be steady.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

He shall conceive him in any of the following forms — of the size of the thumb, pure, brilliant and illuminat¬ ing all round, of the form of pure lamp, endowed with its Sakti completely, of the size of the digit of the moon, of the form of the star, the awn of Nivara grain and the stalk of the lotus, of the circular shape of the Kadamba, of the form of the dewdrop. He shall contemplate on him as the lord of different Tattvas of the earth and others of which the meditator wishes the mastery.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The object of meditation on the form of intellect¬ ual visions is Dhyeya and that is Siva himself accompanied by Siva.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The object of meditation on the form of intellect¬ ual visions is Dhyeya and that is Siva himself accompanied by Siva.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

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The experience of salvation and the perfect Ani ma etc. is the direct fruit of meditation on Siva.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

If a person in his attempt for knowledge and

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

If he has courage enough he shall abandon his life there voluntarily even without ailments.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

After performing the rite of Tarpana to the gods with her auspicious waters they remembered the previous events and went to Varwasl.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

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हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Lord iSiva smiled and spoke to the chief of Ganas. This sage was arrogant and he insulted me. Hence O sinless one, explain my true nature to him. The eldest son of Brahma who took me for a fool is given to you as your disciple. He will be the protagonist of my knowledge. He will perform your coronation as the presiding deity of virtue.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

In some places the sound of the Karaidava is heard. In some places there is the chirping sound of the Sarasa. In some places the ruddy goose. cackles. In some places the bees hum. The lake appears to be holding a loving conversation perpetually with the birds and animals living on the trees and taking bath therein or drinking its water. Through the cooing sound of the cuckoos lying hid¬ den on the trees on its banks it appears to invite all those who are oppressed by the sun.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

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In the middle of the aerial chariot the son of Brahma accompanied by the sages saw the son of Silada seated in a divine throne with Suyaa, brilliant as the goddess Lakml. On either side there was a chowrie. He sat under a royal umbrella with a gemset handle, resembling the pure mooiK He had three eyes. Even by his gestures he remin¬ ded one of the lord. He appeared like the untransgressable behest of the creator. He was one who blessed all. He stood directly in front of Siva. He held an excellent trident. As the commander of the Ganas he looked like another Visve- vara. He could curb and bless the rulers of the universe. He had four arms, a splendid body embellished with the digit of the moon. A serpent adorned his neck and the moon his head. He was the embodied form of Aivarya. He appeared like active cflSciency. It seemed that the very salvation or the omniscient lord had come there. On seeing him the son of Brahina was highly delighted. He stood up with palms joined in reverence. He seemed to dedicate himself to him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

In the meantime when the aerial chariot reached

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Man shall eschew everything and be engaged in meditation since he will be having both happiness and salva¬ tion from the practice of meditation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Knowledge cannot be attained without meditation. A non-yogin cannot have meditation. The ocean of worldly existence is crossed by the person who has both meditation and knowledge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The clear and single-centred knowledge devoid of all conditioning factors can be achieved only by a Yogin who regularly practises Yoga.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The minds of only those whose sins have been en¬ tirely quelled become inclined towards knowledge and medita¬ tion. Those whose intellects have been defiled by sins find it wholly inaccessible.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Just as the blazing fire burns both the dry and the wet twigs, so also the fire of meditation burns in a trice both the auspicious and the inauspicious Karmans.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

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Just as even a modicum of light dispels darkness so also even the slightest practice of Yoga destroys great sins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Yogins do not resort to holy centres full of waters nor to deities made of stone or clay because they have belief only in their Atmans.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Just as the gross form of the lord fashioned out of clay or wood is observed by the non-yogins so also his subtle form can be perceived by the Yogins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Just as in the Royal household, the interior officials not the workers outside are the favourites of kings so also those who are engaged in inner meditation are the favourites of lord Siva and not those who perform holy rites.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Just as the exterior workers do not enjoy the pleasures in the royal palace, the same is the case with the Karmins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Even by performing sacrifices, that goal is not obtained which a man with the desire for the knowledge of Yoga attains.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The fruit derivable by worshipping a crore of brahmins can be attained by giving alms alone to a Siva Yogin.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

By giving cooked rice to him the benefits of sacri¬ fices, Agnihotras, charitable gifts and pilgrimages can be secured.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Those who disparage Bivayogins under delusion undergo sufferings in hells along with those who listen, till the dissolution of the world,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Only when there is some listener, does a person disparage the Yogin. Hence the listener too is a sinner. Those who worship Sivayogins attain pleasures here and salva¬ tion hereafter. Hence, Sivayogins shall be honoured and revered' by those who seek worldly pleasures, giving them asylum, food stuffs and drinks, beds and blankets. The Yogic virtue cannot be smashed by the iron clubs of sins. It is very strong and shall be considered to possess adaman¬ tine fibres. Yogins are not smeared by sins like the lotus leaf not affected by water.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Even the land where the sage engaged in Sivayoga resides is hallowed and sacred, let alone Sivayogin himself.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Hence a shrewd and efficient man shall eschew all activities and practise livayoga in order to quell miseries.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

A Yogin who has achieved the fruits of Yoga may sport about after enjoying the pleasures as he wishes or shall remain here performing the requisite services.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Or let him consider worldly pleasures worthless and eschew them. Due to detachment let him abandon rites and be liberated.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Or seeing evil portents and realising death as im¬ minent the Yogin engaged in the practice of Yoga shall resort to a Saivitc holy centre or temple.*®*

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

He who voluntarily forsakes his life as prescribed in $aivite scriptures, by observing fast, or by consigning his body to Siva- fire, or by plunging into Saivite holy rivers, shall immediately be liberated.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

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Since voluntary death by means of fasts etc. is sought with a mind full of confidence and devotion, they say that this death is commendable.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

After killing a person engaged in disparaging Siva or being afflicted himself, if a devotee eschews his life, not ordinarily possible to forsake, he is not reborn.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

He who dies after fighting being incapable of killing a disparager of Siva shall be liberated with the mem¬ bers of his family for twentyone generations.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

No man treading the path of salvation is equal to one who eschews his life for Siva or for a devotee of §iva.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

His descendants shall not observe post-mortem pollution. His body shall be buried under ground or burnt in fire, or cast off in Saivite holy waters or left abandoned like a log of wood or a clod of clay. Or if at all some post-mortem holy rite has to be performed let it be • some auspicious rite. The descendant shall propitiate devotees. Only a devotee

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

After explaining to the sages, who honoured and exalted him, the path of knowledge that had been previously imparted by the sage Upamanyu of restrained senses to Sri Kfsna, Vayu vanished in the air at sunset.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The next day in the morning the sages of Naimifa set out to perform the holy rite of ablution at the end of their Sattra.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Then at the behest of Brahma the delighted goddess Sarasvatl herself flowed as an auspicious river of sweet water.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

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On seeing her the sages were delighted in their minds. They concluded the Sattra they had begun and plunged into the river.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

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There they saw the holy river Ganga descending from the Him&layan ridges and flowing to the south. They took their bath there and went along the bank.

हिन्दी अर्थ

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After reaching Varanasi they rejoiced much. They plunged into the north-flowing waters of the Ganga. They visited Avimuktesvara*®* and worshipped it. They were about to start when they saw a brilliant splendour in the sky that resembled a crore of sons. Its spreading lustre pervaded all the quarters.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

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Then the Siddhas and sages who had performed Paupata rites with their bodies covered with Bhasma came there in hundreds and merged into that splendour.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

When those noble saints merged in it, the splen¬ dour suddenly vanished. It was highly mysterious.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

On seeing that great mystery the sages from Naimi$a could not know what it was. They went to the forest Brahma vana.*®®

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Even before they arrived there, the wind-god, the purifier of the worlds, had mentioned to Brahma the creator of the worlds and the source of the Vedas how he visited the sages of Naimisa, what he talked to them, how they were inclined to Siva, his attendants and Siva and how they had concluded their Sattra of long duration. When permitted by Brahma, the wind-god left for his own city.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Brahma was comfortably seated in his abode acting as an umpire when Tumburu and Narada had their mutual rivalry in regard to their musical performance. He was taking a keen interest in their performance while Gandh- arvas and Apsaras waited onim.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

That being inopportune time the sages were stopped at the threshold by the gate-keepers and they sat outside the palace of Brahma towards a side.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Narada was pronounced equal to Tumburu ■®® in musical skill. Permitted by Brahma to act in collaboration with him he eschewed mutual rivalry and quarrd and contracted friendship with Tumburu. With him and the other Gandharvas and Apsaras, be started from the palace of Brahma like the sun coming out of the clouds, in order to sing and play on his Vina before lord Nakulivara.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

On seeing Narada the sages bowed to him and asked him wh<ither that time was suitable to see the lord.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The gatekeepers intimated to Brahma and the party entered the abode.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

After entering, the party prostrated to the lord from distance. Or being permitted by Brahma, the party stood there respectfully.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

On hearing what was mentioned by the sages the four-faced creator of the universe shook his head and spoke in a majestic tone — -'A great Siddhi in the next world awaits you all."

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The lord has been propitiated by you through the protracted Sattra. The fact that the lord is delighted has been indicated.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The refulgence in the air seen by you in Varanasi is the splendour of Mahesvara Lihga.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The sages who were merged therein are those who had performed the Pasupata rites in accordance with the Vcdic injunctions. They have become liberated. Their sins have been washed in view of their stable piety.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Just as they achieved salvation by means of Pasupata rite, so also, ere long, you too will achieve liberation. This fact is indicated by the splendour seen by you.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Fortunately your time has come up now. You go to the southern summit ofMeru resorted to by the gods.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Formerly, on seeing Lord liva, Sanatkumara did not pay homage due to his ignorance or arrogance of being a Yogin or carelessness or lack of humility. Due.to this offence Nandin was infuriated and he made him a camel.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

I bewailed this for a long time. I worshipped the lord and the goddess and craved forgiveness. With great difficulty I atoned for his wickedness. Sanatkumara was restored to his previous form.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Thus addressed, the leader of the Bhutas was plea¬ sed to accept the behest.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

He shall be seen by you all before the lord of the Ganas meets him. Ere long, Nandin will come there to delight him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

After bidding thus the Vivayogin sent the sages to Kumarasikhara,*®' the southern peak of Meru.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Ciystal slabs are neatly,fbted all around. The place abounds in blooming flowers in tiie seasons throughout.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Not identified According to the context this hill can be placed to the south of mount Meru.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Not identified

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Lilies, lotuses and other aquatic plants resemble the Stan. The waves are like clouds. The sky itself appears to have come to the earth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The steps that lead to it consist of blue stones and arc beautiful. People can ascend and descend comfortably. Through these the lake brightens all the eight quarters.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Some stand on rocks submerged in water as if avoiding, contact with the low-born people. They observe good conduct and their bodies are grey with Bhasma. They plunge into the water here and there. On the rock are seen the remnants of worship — gingelly seeds, raw rice-grains, flowers, Darbhas, Pavitras These indicate that the brahmins who come here for bath perform worship and Tarpanas to the gods, sages and the manes.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

At places people perform worship on dry banks after performing Arghya to the sun as indicated by the scattered oblations and flowers. At places leaders of elephant herds are merging in and emerging out of water. At places the deer, the hind and die horses have come to quench thirst. At places peacocks and elephants are drinking water. At places oxen and hostile bulls are butting against the banks.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

On the northern bank of the lake under the Kalpa tree, on a platform of adamantine rock, the sages from Naimia saw Sanatkumara seated on a soft deer-skin. He had just woken up from his trance. He was being worship¬ ped by the sages and the leading Yogins. On seeing him they bowed to him and stood in reverence.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

On being asked they told him the purpose of their visit. The tumultuous sound of Dundubhi was heard in the heaven immediately.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

At the same time an aerial chariot brilliant as the sun was visible. All round, it was surrounded by leading Ganas, numerous and countless. It was thronged by the celestial damsels and surrounded by Rudra girls. Sounds of Mfdahga, lute and flute were heard. It had canopies set with gems of various colours. It shone with strings of pearls. It was encircled by sages, Siddhas, Gandharvas, Yakas, Caranas, Kinnaras dancing, or playing on instruments. A banner marked by the sign of a heroic bull was fluttering from a post set with corals. The aerial chariot had a gabled front.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

You and I have helped each other through this path. I have realised my desire. I shall go now. Let everything be auspicious to you always.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

You and I have helped each other through this path. I have realised my desire. I shall go now. Let everything be auspicious to you always.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Then Suta blessed them and left. The righteous sages fixed their abode permanently at the outskirts of Varanasi after performing the sattra at Prayaga when they perceived that everything was being defiled by the advent of the Kali age.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Bathing three times, tending the fire, worshipping the linga in due order, giving, the attitude of the Lord, and compassion everywhere and always,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

truth, contentment, faith, non-violence to all creatures, modesty, reverence, study, yoga, and always teaching —

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

exposition, celibacy, hearing, austerity, forbearance, purity, the tuft and the sacred thread, the turban and the upper garment,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

avoiding what is forbidden, wearing ash and rudraksha, worship on festival days, O Goddess, and especially on the fourteenth,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

drinking the brahmakurcha every month according to rule, and worshipping me especially after bathing me with it, dear one,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

avoiding the food of all rites, avoiding food of the shraddha, likewise stale food, and barley gruel especially,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

avoiding wine, what smells of wine, and food offered to other gods — this is common to all classes, and especially to brahmins.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Forbearance, peace, contentment, truth, not stealing, celibacy, knowledge of me, dispassion, the use of ash,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Then the sages performed the Pasupata rites with the. desire to get released from the bondage. They attained enlightenment. They learnt modes of Samadhi and achieved the greatest Bliss.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

It shall not be mentioned to an atheist nor to one lacking in faith nor to a stubborn rogue nor to one who is not a devotee of Siva nor to a religious hypocrite.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

On hearing this once, the sins are reduced to ashes. A non-devotee attains devotion and a devotee attains more devotion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

If one aims at some big benefit one shall read or hear this Purana hve times with a pious mind. He is sure to achieve the desired result.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

K?atriyas of yore, excellent brahmins and Vaisyas repeated it seven times and attained the vision of Siva.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

If a man with devotion hears it, he enjoys all pleasures here and secures liberation hereafter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

May Siva with his Ganas, sons and Amba bestow blessings upon those who explain or listen to this Purana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Service to the other classes is said to be the dharma of the shudra, as well as making gardens and taking refuge in my holy fields.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

For the householder, going to his lawful wife is prescribed; celibacy for forest-dwellers, ascetics and students.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

For women, service to the husband is the dharma, and there is no other eternal one; and my worship, auspicious one, if the husband permits it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The woman who abandons service to her husband and is devoted to vows goes to hell; there is no need to deliberate on this.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Now I shall tell the eternal dharma of the woman without a husband: vows, giving, austerity, purity, sleeping on the ground, eating at night,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

celibacy, bathing always with ash or water, peace, silence, forbearance, and constant sharing according to rule,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

and, on the eighth, the fourteenth and especially the full-moon day, and on the eleventh, fasting according to rule and my worship.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Thus in brief I have told the dharma of those who follow the stages of life — of brahmins, kshatriyas and vaishyas, O Goddess, of ascetics and students,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

of forest-dwellers and householders, lovely one, of shudras and of women; this is the eternal dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

I am always to be meditated upon by you, queen of gods, and the six-syllabled mantra always repeated; this is the whole dharma taught in the Veda, the summary of dharma and its aims.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Now those men in the world who have taken bodies of their own will, endowed with intense feeling and with the impressions of former births,

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

whether dispassionate or attached, even amid the objects of women and the rest, are not tainted by sins, like a lotus leaf by water.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

For them, pure and discerning, who have the knowledge of me as the self, purified by my grace, the keeping of the stages of life is a burden.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

For them there is nothing to be done or left undone, no samadhi or final goal, no injunction or prohibition — just as with me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Just as nothing remains to be accomplished for me, who am complete here, so it is for those who have fulfilled their purpose, without doubt.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

For the good of my devotees they have taken on human nature; fallen from the world of Rudra, they are Rudras — there is no doubt of it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Just as my command sets Brahma and the others in motion, so their direction sets other men in motion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Through their being vessels of my command and their abundance of true feeling, by merely seeing them all sin is destroyed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

And signs appear, indicating excellent fruits, in men who have feeling for me, pertaining to things not seen before:

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

trembling, sweat, shedding of tears, change of voice in the throat, and sudden experiences of bliss and the like, again and again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

By these unfailing marks, singly or all together, in mild, middling or intense degree, those best of men are to be known.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Just as iron heated through by fire is no longer mere iron, so through my presence they are no longer mere men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Because they have hands, feet and the rest like others, a wise man should not despise these Rudras bearing mortal bodies, taking them for ordinary people.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Contempt shown them by men of deluded mind robs them of life, fortune, family and character and brings them to hell.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Even the state of Brahma, Vishnu and the lord of the gods seems like a wisp of cotton to those great souls who are lifted up and depend on nothing but me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The impure lordship of the intellect, of nature and of the Purusha belongs to the lords of the qualities; therefore it is to be given up by those who seek the state beyond the qualities.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

What more need be said? The one means of attaining the highest good is attachment of the mind to me, by whatever cause.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Upamanyu said: Thus Shiva, the supreme self, lord Shrikantha, spoke for the good of the worlds this summary of the essence of knowledge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The Vedas and shastras in their entirety, with the Itihasas and Puranas and all the sciences, are but the extended explanation of this summary of knowledge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Knowledge, the knowable, what is to be practised, eligibility, the means and the goal — this summary is the summary of these six topics.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Knowledge belongs to the guru; the knowable is the bond, the bound soul and the Lord; what is to be practised is linga worship and the rest; and the eligible is the devotee.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

The means are Shiva's mantras and the rest; the goal is equality with Shiva. Knowledge of this summary of six topics is called omniscience.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

First, having worshipped Shiva outwardly with devotion by rites, sacrifices and the like according to one's wealth, one should then become devoted to the inner worship.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

For the great soul whose delight is within and not in outward things, out of regard for merit, no outer rite need be performed.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

For one satisfied with the nectar of knowledge, whose self is Shiva through devotion, there is never anything to be done, O Krishna, either within or without.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Therefore, gradually giving up the outer and then the inner, having seen the knowable through knowledge, one should give up knowledge too.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

If the mind is not one-pointed on Shiva, what use are rites performed? If the mind is one-pointed, what use are rites performed?

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Therefore, whether performing rites or not, in order, within and without, one should fix the mind on Shiva by whatever means.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

For the good whose minds are fixed on Shiva and whose understanding is established, there is supreme peace here and hereafter and everywhere.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शिवको मेरा नमस्कार है

English

Here all accomplishments come through this mantra, "Om namah Shivaya"; therefore it is to be taken up for glory high and low.