Verse 33

Sita

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

वैखानसऋषेः पूर्वं विष्णोर्वाणी समुद्भवेत् । त्रयीरूपेण सङ्कल्प्य वैखानसऋषेः पुरा । उदितो यादृशः पूर्वं तादृशं शृणु मेऽखिलम् । शश्वद्ब्रह्ममयं रूपं क्रियाशक्तिरुदाहृता । साक्षाच्छक्तिर्भगवतः स्मरणमात्ररूपा—आविर्भावप्रादुर्भावात्मिका; निग्रहानुग्रहरूपा; भगवत्सहचारिणी; अनपायिनी; अनवरतसहाश्रयिणी; उदितानुदिताकारा; निमेषोन्मेष-सृष्टि-स्थिति-संहार-तिरोधान-अनुग्रहादि-सर्वशक्तिसामर्थ्यात् साक्षाच्छक्तिरिति गीयते ॥३२–३४॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

वैखानस-ऋषेः । पूर्वम् । विष्णोः । वाणी । समुद्भवेत् । त्रयी-रूपेण । सङ्कल्प्य । वैखानस-ऋषेः । पुरा । उदितः । यादृशः । पूर्वम् । तादृशम् । शृणु । मे । अखिलम् । शश्वत् । ब्रह्म-मयम् । रूपम् । क्रिया-शक्तिः । उदाहृता । साक्षात् । शक्तिः । भगवतः । स्मरण-मात्र-रूपा । आविर्भाव-प्रादुर्भाव-आत्मिका । निग्रह-अनुग्रह-रूपा । भगवत्-सहचारिणी । अनपायिनी । अनवरत-सह-आश्रयिणी । उदित-अनुदित-आकारा । निमेष-उन्मेष । सृष्टि-स्थिति-संहार-तिरोधान-अनुग्रह-आदि । सर्व-शक्ति-सामर्थ्यात् । साक्षात्-शक्तिः । इति । गीयते ।

IAST Transliteration

vaikhānasaṛṣeḥ pūrvaṃ viṣṇor vāṇī samudbhavet | trayīrūpeṇa saṅkalpya vaikhānasaṛṣeḥ purā | udito yādṛśaḥ pūrvaṃ tādṛśaṃ śṛṇu me’khilam | śaśvad brahmamayaṃ rūpaṃ kriyāśaktir udāhṛtā | sākṣācchaktir bhagavataḥ smaraṇamātrarūpā—āvirbhāvaprādurbhāvātmikā; nigrahānugraharūpā; bhagavatsahacāriṇī; anapāyinī; anavaratasahāśrayiṇī; uditānudītākārā; nimeṣonmeṣa-sṛṣṭi-sthiti-saṃhāra-tirodhāna-anugrahādi-sarvaśaktisāmarthyāt sākṣācchaktir iti gīyate ||32–34||

Translation

বৈখানস ঋষির পূর্বেই বিষ্ণুর বাণী উদ্ভূত হয়। তা ত্রয়ী-বেদের রূপে সংকল্পিত হয়ে, বৈখানস ঋষিরও আগে, আদিতে যেমনভাবে প্রকাশিত হয়েছিল—সে সমস্তই আমার কাছ থেকে শোন। তার রূপ চির ব্রহ্মময়; তাকে ক্রিয়া-শক্তি বলা হয়েছে। সেই বাণীই ভগবানের সাক্ষাৎ শক্তি বলে গীত—স্মরণমাত্ররূপা, আবির্ভাব-প্রাদুর্ভাবস্বভাবা, নিগ্রহ ও অনুগ্রহরূপা, ভগবৎসহচারিণী, অনপায়িনী, অনবরত সহাশ্রয়িণী, উদিত ও অনুদিত উভয় আকারধারিণী; আর নিমেষ-উন্মেষের ন্যায় ক্ষণে সৃষ্টিস্থিতিসংহার, তিরোধান ও অনুগ্রহ প্রভৃতি সর্বশক্তির সামর্থ্য থাকায় তাকে সাক্ষাৎ শক্তি বলা হয়।

Academic Translation

Same as Sita.32 (the passage is repeated verbatim): Before the Vaikhānasa seer, Viṣṇu’s speech arises, conceived as the threefold Veda; its ever-Brahmanic form is called the power of action, and it is praised as the Lord’s direct power—manifesting as mere remembrance, as restraint and grace, inseparable and ever-abiding, competent for creation, maintenance, dissolution, concealment, and grace as in the blinking and opening of the eye.

Verse Context

• Śakti (kriyā-śakti) as Brahman’s operative power; īśvara-śakti and manifestation
• Mahavakya: Indirect; no explicit mahāvākya, but provides a theistic-śakti framework for śruti’s authority
• Atharva
• Chandas: Prose mixed with śloka (post-Vedic)