verse 164

Sanskrit text and Unicode transliteration:

मद्-वनं प्राप्य यो मूढः पुनर् अन्यत्र गच्छति
स आत्म-हा महादेव सर्वथा नात्र संशयः

mad-vanaṃ prāpya yo mūḍhaḥ punar anyatra gacchati
sa ātma-hā mahādeva sarvathā nātra saṃśayaḥ

Word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents:

mad-vanam—My forest; prāpya—attaining; yaḥ—who; mūḍhaḥ—fool; punaḥ—again; anyatra—another place; gacchati—goes; sa—he; ātma- hā—the killer of the soul; mahādeva—O Śiva; sarvathā—in all respects; na—not; atra—here; saṃśayaḥ—doubt.

English translation of verse:

One who, after entering My forest, leaves and goes somewhere else is a great fool. O Śiva, it is as if he killed his own soul. Of this there is no doubt.