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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 8.188

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Ullāsa 8 · Verse 188

चक्रस्थल माहात्म्यम्The greatness of the place of the circle

Verse 188

दृष्ट्वा तु भैरवीचक्रं मम रूपांश्च साधकान् । मुच्यन्ते पशुपाशेभ्यः कलिकल्मषदूषिताः ॥ १८८ ॥

dṛṣṭvā tu bhairavīcakraṁ mama rūpāṁśca sādhakān | mucyantē paśupāśēbhyaḥ kalikalmaṣadūṣitāḥ || 188 ||

Translation

Seeing the Bhairavī-cakra and the practitioners who are my forms, those defiled by the stains of Kali are freed from the bonds of the paśu.

Word by word

dṛṣṭvā
seeing
tu
indeed
bhairavī
Bhairavī
cakraṁ
circle
mama
my
rūpāṁś
(rūpān) forms
ca
and
sādhakān
the practitioners
mucyantē
are freed
paśu
of the paśu
pāśēbhyaḥ
from the bonds
kali
of Kali
kalmaṣa
by the stains
dūṣitāḥ
those defiled

Meaning

Even to see the circle frees. The "paśu-pāśa", the bonds of the bound soul, are in Śaiva thought the three impurities that tie the self to limitation; the sight of the circle and its participants, who are Śiva's forms (verse 180), loosens them.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

See the commentary on verse 187.