Varaha Purana 37.33: Adhyaya 37, Shloka 33
The Threefold Discipline (Mental, Physical, Verbal) and the Salvific Power of Hearing Nārāyaṇa’s Name
सत्यं सत्यं पुनः सत्यमुत्क्षिप्य भुजमुच्यते । जङ्गमा ब्राह्मणा देवाः कूटस्थः पुरुषोत्तमः ॥ ३७.३३ ॥
satyaṃ satyaṃ punaḥ satyam utkṣipya bhujaṃ ucyate | jaṅgamā brāhmaṇā devāḥ kūṭasthaḥ puruṣottamaḥ || 37.33 ||
«الحقّ—الحقّ—ثمّ الحقّ مرّةً أخرى»، هكذا يُعلَن برفع الذراع توكيدًا: إنّ البراهمة هم «الآلهة المتحرّكة»، وأمّا بوروشوتّما، الشخص الأسمى، فهو الحقيقة الثابتة غير المتبدّلة (كوطسثا).
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FAQs
It illustrates a Purāṇic rhetorical style—public, emphatic assertion (“raising the arm”)—and reflects a classical South Asian discourse in which social authority (Brāhmaṇas) is framed through theological metaphors, alongside a philosophical claim about an unchanging supreme principle (kūṭastha).
No geographic location is named in this verse fragment; the content is ethical-philosophical rather than topographical.
The verse emphasizes truthfulness as a central value (“truth… again truth”) and presents a normative view of learned custodians of tradition (Brāhmaṇas) as socially ‘divine’ agents, while affirming an ultimate, unchanging reality (kūṭastha puruṣottama) as the highest metaphysical reference point.
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