Kurma Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 1
Tāmasa Sarga, the Androgynous Division of Brahmā, and the Lineages of Dharma and Adharma
इति श्रीकूर्मपुराणे षट्साहस्त्र्यां संहितायां पूर्वविभागे सप्तमो ऽध्यायः श्रीकूर्म उवाच एवं भूतानि सृष्टानि स्थावराणि चराणि च / यदा चास्य प्रजाः सृष्टा न व्यवर्धन्त धीमतः
iti śrīkūrmapurāṇe ṣaṭsāhastryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pūrvavibhāge saptamo 'dhyāyaḥ śrīkūrma uvāca evaṃ bhūtāni sṛṣṭāni sthāvarāṇi carāṇi ca / yadā cāsya prajāḥ sṛṣṭā na vyavardhanta dhīmataḥ
এইদৰে শ্ৰীকূৰ্মপুৰাণৰ ষট্সাহস্ত্ৰী সংহিতাৰ পূৰ্ববিভাগত সপ্তম অধ্যায় সমাপ্ত। শ্ৰীকূৰ্মে ক’লে—এই প্ৰকাৰে স্থাৱৰ আৰু চৰ ভूतসমূহ সৃষ্টি হ’ল; কিন্তু তেওঁৰ প্ৰজাসমূহ সৃষ্টি হ’লেও, সেই ধীমন্তৰ সত্ত্বেও সিহঁত বৃদ্ধি নাপালে।
Lord Kurma (Vishnu)
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: karuna
FAQs
Indirectly: it distinguishes created categories (mobile/immobile) from the wise creative principle behind them, implying a higher governing intelligence beyond the produced beings—an idea later aligned with Īśvara-centered teaching in the Purāṇa.
No explicit yoga practice is taught in this verse; it sets a cosmological problem—creation exists but does not proliferate—whose resolution in the broader Purāṇic arc is tied to right order (dharma) and Īśvara-oriented discipline, themes developed more fully in later instructional sections (including the Purāṇa’s yoga-oriented teachings).
The verse itself is primarily cosmological with Lord Kūrma speaking; within the Kurma Purāṇa’s overall synthesis, such creation discourse is compatible with a unified Īśvara framework where sectarian functions (creation, maintenance, dissolution) are harmonized rather than opposed.