Kurma Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 23
Devī-tattva, Śakti–Śaktimān doctrine, Kāla–Māyā cosmology, and Māheśvara Yoga instruction
अनन्या निष्कले तत्त्वे संस्थिता तस्य तेजसा / स्वाभाविकी च तन्मूला प्रभा भानोरिवामला
ananyā niṣkale tattve saṃsthitā tasya tejasā / svābhāvikī ca tanmūlā prabhā bhānorivāmalā
غيرُ مغايرةٍ له، تقيم في الحقيقة غير المتجزئة بضيائه؛ طبيعيةٌ له ومتجذّرةٌ فيه، وهي البهاء الطاهر الذي لا دنس فيه—كضياء الشمس النقي.
Lord Kurma (Vishnu) instructing the sages (Ishvara Gita context)
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
It presents the Supreme as a “partless Reality” (niṣkala tattva) whose intrinsic radiance manifests as a stainless light—implying that the Lord’s essence and His luminous power are inseparable.
The verse supports niṣkala-dhyāna (meditation on the partless Absolute): the practitioner contemplates the Lord not as a divided form but as pure, stainless consciousness-light, with Shakti understood as His inherent brilliance.
By describing the Supreme in non-dual terms—one reality with inseparable power (Shakti)—it aligns with the Kurma Purana’s synthesis where sectarian boundaries soften: the one Ishvara (whether named Shiva or Vishnu) is understood as the same partless principle.