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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 3.95

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Ullāsas
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Minutes
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Ullāsa 3 · Verse 95

Verse 95

स्वयमप्यन्धतामिस्रे पतन्त्याहूतसंप्लवम् । ब्रह्मसात्कृतनैवेद्यद्वेष्टॄणां नास्ति निष्कृतिः ॥ ९५ ॥

svayamapyandhatāmisrē patantyāhūtasaṁplavam | brahmasātkṛtanaivēdyadvēṣṭṝṇāṁ nāsti niṣkṛtiḥ || 95 ||

Translation

and themselves fall into the blind darkness until the flood of dissolution. For those who hate the food offered to Brahman there is no expiation.

Word by word

svayamapyandhatāmisrē
themselves too, into the blind darkness
patantyāhūtasaṁplavam
fall, until the flood of dissolution
brahmasātkṛtanaivēdyadvēṣṭṝṇāṁ
for those who hate the offering made over to Brahman
nāsti
there is no
niṣkṛtiḥ
expiation

Meaning

Andhatāmisra is a hell, "blind darkness"; ā-hūta-saṁplava, the commentary explains, is until the world is flooded at the dissolution.