Shloka 57

Mokṣa-dharma Yoga-Upadeśa: Equanimity, Sense-Restraint, and Vision of the Ātman (आत्मदर्शन-योगोपदेशः)

Devanagari script

सुरहस्यमिदं प्रोक्तं देवानां भरतर्षभ । कच्चिन्नेदं श्रुतं पार्थ मनुष्येणेह कर्हिचित्‌

Transliteration

surahasyam idaṁ proktaṁ devānāṁ bharatarṣabha | kaccin nedaṁ śrutaṁ pārtha manuṣyeṇeha karhicit ||

Translation

Vāyu sprach: „O Stier unter den Bharatas, ich habe dir dieses höchst geheime Mysterium der Götter kundgetan. Sage mir, o Pārtha: Ist es in dieser Welt jemals von irgendeinem Menschen, zu irgendeiner Zeit, gehört worden?“

Word by Word

• {'surahasyam': 'a divine secret

• a mystery (rahasya) of the gods', 'idaṁ': 'this', 'proktam': 'spoken, declared, taught', 'devānām': 'of the gods', 'bharatarṣabha': 'O best of the Bharata lineage

• ‘bull among the Bharatas’ (honorific)', 'kaccit': 'whether?

• I ask/please tell me (interrogative particle)', 'na etat (nedaṁ)': 'not this

• has not this (sandhi form)', 'śrutam': 'heard', 'pārtha': 'O son of Pṛthā (Arjuna)', 'manuṣyeṇa': 'by a human being', 'iha': 'here, in this world', 'karhicit': 'ever, at any time'}

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyudeva (Vāyu)
• Arjuna (Pārtha)
• Bharata lineage (Bharatarṣabha)
• Devas (gods)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse emphasizes the extraordinary confidentiality and sanctity of certain divine teachings: Vāyu frames the instruction as a ‘secret of the gods’ and highlights its rarity among humans, underscoring reverence, careful transmission, and the exceptional status of the recipient.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva, addressing Arjuna (Pārtha) with honorifics, states that he has revealed a highly guarded divine secret and then asks whether any human in the world has ever heard such a teaching before—marking the revelation as unprecedented and weighty.