Thursday, February 3, 2022

Nirvana Shatakam of Shankara - IV

 



न पुण्यं न पापं न सौख्यं न दुःखं

न मन्त्रो न तीर्थो न वेदो न यज्ञाः  ।

अहं भोजनं नैव भोज्यं न भोक्ता

चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम्‌ शिवोऽहम्‌  ॥ ४ ॥


I am neither virtue nor vice, neither pleasure nor pain,

neither mantra nor holy shrine, neither scriptures nor sacrifices.

Neither am I enjoyment nor its object, nor the enjoyer.

In the form of blissful consciousness, I am Shiva, I am Shiva.  4



Words by Adi Shankara. Translation and image Copyright © 2022 by Donald C. Traxler aka Donald Jacobson Traxler.


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