🪷 ŚB 12.5.4

Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.

Sanskrit

स्वप्ने यथा शिरश्छेदं पञ्चत्वाद्यात्मन: स्वयम् । यस्मात् पश्यति देहस्य तत आत्मा ह्यजोऽमर: ॥ ४ ॥

Transliteration

svapne yathā śiraś-chedaṁ pañcatvādy ātmanaḥ svayam yasmāt paśyati dehasya tata ātmā hy ajo ’maraḥ
Synonyms
svapne — in a dream; yathā — as; śiraḥ — of one’s head; chedam — the cutting off; pañcatva-ādi — the condition of being composed of the five material elements, and other material conditions; ātmanaḥ — one’s own; svayam — oneself; yasmāt — because; paśyati — one sees; dehasya — of the body; tataḥ — therefore; ātmā — the soul; hi — certainly; ajaḥ — unborn; amaraḥ — immortal.

Translation

In a dream one can see his own head being cut off and thus understand that his actual self is standing apart from the dream experience. Similarly, while awake one can see that his body is a product of the five material elements. Therefore it is to be understood that the actual self, the soul, is distinct from the body it observes and is unborn and immortal.

गीता प्रेस, गोरखपुर · पृथक पाठ-साक्षी

Sanskrit and Hindi Witness

इस पाठ-साक्षी का श्लोक-पता वर्तमान ŚB मार्ग से ठीक मिलता है। गीता प्रेस और वर्तमान अंग्रेज़ी पाठ को मिलाया नहीं गया है; दोनों अपने-अपने स्रोत-रूप में साथ पढ़े जा सकते हैं।

ŚB 12.5.4 · गीता प्रेस पाठ

स्वप्ने यथा शिरश्छेदं पंचत्वाद्यात्मन: स्वयम्। यस्मात् पश्यति देहस्य तत आत्मा ह्यजोऽमर:॥ ४

हिन्दी भावार्थ

स्वप्नावस्थामें ऐसा मालूम होता है कि मेरा सिर कट गया है और मैं मर गया हूँ, मुझे लोग श्मशानमें जला रहे हैं; परन्तु ये सब शरीरकी ही अवस्थाएँ दीखती हैं, आत्माकी नहीं। देखनेवाला तो उन अवस्थाओंसे सर्वथा परे, जन्म और मृत्युसे रहित, शुद्ध-बुद्ध परमतत्त्वस्वरूप है॥ ४॥

स्रोत-खंड सीमा · यह हिन्दी अंश गीता प्रेस डिजिटल पाठ में इस दृश्य श्लोक-इकाई के बाद आता है; इसे स्वतः एक-से-एक टीका या संस्करण-समानता नहीं माना गया है।

Source witness details
द्वितीय-खण्ड · index_split_044.html · source order 47
Sanskrit SHA-256: 7efb9b172e191ef497d566ee6d914f7288bfa9ef0a70ca7e4bfd6d41ba48627d
Hindi SHA-256: 3f84aabdf332a780c972f105346a491390c7c0eccab58a6a2835a1f7292001a4
Address crosswalk: exact · final textual equivalence: not claimed

Sources and Connected Bhāgavata Readings

After the Sanskrit, word meanings, translation, and reading navigation, these links connect the requested reference with its canonical received passage, parent chapter and skandha, and the wider Bhāgavata corpus without inventing artificial verse boundaries.

ŚB 12.5.4requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 12.5parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 12parent skandha chapter index/bhagavatammaster index for 12 skandhas, 335 chapters, and 13,003 reading pagesŚB 1.1.1satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi · the Bhāgavatam source meditationŚB 1.2.6supreme dharma as ahaitukī and apratihatā bhaktiŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattvaŚB 1.3.28kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam · Krishna-pramāṇa source sealŚB 10.10.29Dāmodara/Yamala-arjuna · Krishna as supreme original PersonŚB 10.10.30-31Krishna as Kāla · Viṣṇu · Paramātmā · AntaryāmīŚB 10.10.38speech, hearing, body, mind, head, and sight offered in Krishna-sevāŚB 10.10.39Gokuleśvara bound by love, smilingŚB 10.10.40Nārada correction as anugrahaŚB 10.10.41sādhu-darśana removes bondage-darknessŚB 12.2.18Kalki witness at ŚambhalaŚB 12.3.51Kali-yuga blessing through Krishna-kīrtanaSkandha 10 līlā index20-anchor Krishna-līlā reading pathway inside the Bhāgavatam master pageBG 7.7mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat · no source higher than KrishnaBG 10.8ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ · Krishna as source of allBG 15.15Krishna seated in every heart and the target of all Veda/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Bhāgavata prema as the Bindu made rasa/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation

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