Shloka 21
रावण–मारीचसंवादः तथा मृगप्रलोभनपूर्वकं सीताहरणोपक्रमः
Rāvaṇa–Mārīca Dialogue and the Decoy-Deer Prelude to Sītā’s Abduction
न वर्तयन्त्याहुतिभिस्ते नाप्यमृतभोजना: । तथा दिव्यशरीरास्ते न च विग्रहमूर्तय:,वे देवताओंकी तरह आहुतियोंसे जीविका नहीं चलाते। उन्हें अमृत पीनेकी आवश्यकता नहीं होती। उनके शरीर दिव्य ज्योतिर्मय हैं। उनकी कोई विशेष आकृति नहीं होती
na vartayanty āhutibhis te nāpy amṛtabhojanāḥ | tathā divyaśarīrās te na ca vigrahamūrtayaḥ ||
قال الرسول الإلهي: «إنهم لا يقتاتون بالقرابين الطقسية كما تفعل الآلهة، ولا يحتاجون إلى شرب الرحيق أو أكله. أجسادهم ذات طبيعة سماوية مضيئة، ولا تُحصر في هيئة ثابتة يمكن الإمساك بها.»
देवदूत उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse distinguishes certain higher beings from the ordinary divine economy of ritual: they do not depend on offerings or nectar, and their existence is luminous and not limited by a fixed physical form—suggesting a subtler mode of being beyond ritual sustenance and corporeal constraints.
A divine messenger explains the nature of a class of celestial beings, clarifying that unlike the gods who are sustained through sacrificial oblations and associated with nectar, these beings are self-sustained, radiant, and not bound to a definite embodied shape.