Shloka 140
रुद्र-स्तवराजः (Rudra-Stavarāja) — Exempla of Śiva’s Boons and the Hymn’s Phalaśruti
चराचरात्मा सूक्ष्मात्मा अमृतो गोवृषेश्चर: । साध्यर्षिवसुरादित्यो विवस्वान् सवितामृत:
carācarātmā sūkṣmātmā amṛto govṛṣeś caraḥ | sādhyarṣivasurādityo vivasvān savitāmṛtaḥ ||
Vāyu sprach: Er ist das innere Selbst aller bewegten und unbewegten Wesen; sein Wesen ist überaus fein. Er ist unsterblich und der Herr, der das Dharma von „Kuh und Stier“ — die tragende Ordnung der Rechtschaffenheit — aufrechterhält. Er ist der Führer der Sādhyas und der Seher; man zählt ihn zu den Vasus und den Ādityas; er ist Vivasvān, Savitṛ — die strahlende Sonne, ihrem Wesen nach unvergänglich, die die Welt hervorbringt und belebt.
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that the divine is the indwelling Self of all beings, subtle and immortal, and also the cosmic sustainer identified with solar divinity (Vivasvān/Savitṛ). Ethical order (dharma) is portrayed as something the divine protects and governs, symbolized by ‘cow and bull’—prosperity, nourishment, and righteousness.
Vāyu is reciting a sequence of exalted names and attributes—an encomium that identifies the praised deity as all-pervading, deathless, and manifest in revered divine classes and especially in the Sun. The passage functions as a devotional and doctrinal identification of the supreme principle through epithets.