अन्तर्बाह्यशौचाशौचनिरूपणम्Inner and outer purity and impurity
Verse 74
किमत्र बहुनोक्तेन शौचाशौचविधौ शिवे । मनःपूतं भवेद्येन गृहस्थस्तत्तदाचरेत् ॥ ७४ ॥
kimatra bahunōktēna śaucāśaucavidhau śivē | manaḥpūtaṁ bhavēdyēna gṛhasthastattadācarēt || 74 ||
Translation
What use is much talk about the rules of purity and impurity, Śivā? Whatever makes the mind pure, that the householder should do.
Word by word
- kim
- (kim) what
- atra
- here
- bahunā
- (bahunā) much
- uktēna
- by talk
- śauca
- of purity
- aśauca
- and impurity
- vidhau
- about the rules
- śivē
- O Śivā
- manaḥ
- the mind
- pūtaṁ
- pure
- bhavēd
- (bhavet) becomes
- yēna
- by which
- gṛhasthas
- (gṛhasthaḥ) the householder
- tattad
- (tat tat) that
- ācarēt
- should do
Meaning
After the details, a principle that sets them all in their place. The rules of śauca and aśauca (impurity, including the long periods of impurity after births and deaths in the old law) could fill volumes; the Tantra cuts through them: the test is whether the mind is purified. Outer purity serves inner purity, as verse 70 already said.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 73.