Shloka 38
सोमचक्रः, ग्रह-रथाः, ध्रुवबन्धनं, शिशुमारसंनिवेशः, विष्णु-सर्वात्मकता
Moon, Planets, Dhruva-Tethering, Śiśumāra, and Vishnu as All
ज्योतींषि विष्णुर् भुवनानि विष्णुर् वनानि विष्णुर् गिरयो दिशश् च नद्यः समुद्राश् च स एव सर्वं यद् अस्ति यन् नास्ति च विप्रवर्य
jyotīṃṣi viṣṇur bhuvanāni viṣṇur vanāni viṣṇur girayo diśaś ca nadyaḥ samudrāś ca sa eva sarvaṃ yad asti yan nāsti ca vipravarya
الأنوار السماوية هي فيشنو؛ العوالم هي فيشنو. الغابات هي فيشنو؛ الجبال والجهات هي فيشنو. الأنهار والمحيطات أيضًا—هو وحده كل هذا: ما يوجد، وحتى ما يُقال إنه لا يوجد، يا أفضل البرهميين.
Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya)
FAQs
This verse teaches Vishnu’s complete pervasion: all cosmic structures (lights, worlds, directions, rivers, oceans) are upheld and suffused by Him, establishing Vishnu as the Supreme Reality behind the universe.
By enumerating the major constituents of the cosmos and identifying each as Vishnu, Parāśara frames creation as inseparable from the Lord—Vishnu is not merely within the universe but is its sustaining essence and ground.
Vishnu is presented as both the immanent presence in all phenomena and the transcendent source beyond categories of existence and non-existence—central to Vaishnava philosophy and Vishnu Purana cosmology.