Shloka 2036
Adhyāya 42 — Mahābhūta–Indriya–Adhyātma-Vyavasthā
Brahmā’s Instruction on Elements and Faculties
अधिभूतं ततो रूपं सूर्यस्तत्राधिदेवतम् । तीसरे भूतका नाम है तेज। नेत्र उसका अध्यात्म, रूप उसका अधिभूत और सूर्य उसका अधिदैवत कहा जाता है
adhibhūtaṃ tato rūpaṃ sūryas tatrādhidaivatam |
Vāyu-deva sprach: „Als Nächstes: Was das ‘adhibhūta’ (den elementaren/äußeren Aspekt) betrifft, so ist es die Form (rūpa); und was das ‘adhidaivata’ (das präsidierende göttliche Prinzip) dort betrifft, so ist es die Sonne. So wird für das dritte Element—tejas (Glanz/Feuer)—das Auge als sein ‘adhyātma’ (innere, persönliche Grundlage), die Form als sein ‘adhibhūta’ (objektives Feld) und die Sonne als sein ‘adhidaivata’ (göttlicher Lenker) gelehrt.“
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
It maps experience across three levels: the inner basis (adhyātma: the eye), the objective field (adhibhūta: form), and the presiding divine regulator (adhidaivata: the Sun) for the element tejas, showing how perception is ethically and metaphysically ordered rather than random.
Vāyu-deva is instructing by enumerating correspondences between elements, sense-faculties, their objects, and their presiding deities—here identifying form as the object-side and the Sun as the divine presider in relation to sight and tejas.