Varaha Purana 62.27: Adhyaya 62, Shloka 27
Instruction on the ‘Health Vow’ and the Rite of Solar Worship
देवा अपि वदन्त्येते पद्मं काञ्चनमुत्तमम् । मानसे ब्रह्मपद्मं तु दृष्ट्वा चात्र गतं हरिम् । प्राप्स्यामस्तत् परं ब्रह्म यद् गत्वा न पुनर्भवेत् ॥ ६२.२७ ॥
devā api vadanty ete padmaṃ kāñcanam uttamam | mānase brahmapadmaṃ tu dṛṣṭvā cātra gataṃ harim | prāpsyāmas tat paraṃ brahma yad gatvā na punar bhavet || 62.27 ||
Selbst die Götter sprechen von diesem höchsten goldenen Lotos. Nachdem wir in Mānasā den Brahmā-Lotos geschaut und Hari gesehen haben, der hierher gekommen ist, werden wir das höchste Brahman erlangen—und wer dorthin gelangt, wird nicht wiedergeboren.
Varāha (default attribution within Varāha–Pṛthivī dialogue framework; verse content reports the speech of ‘devāḥ’)
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It exemplifies a Purāṇic tīrtha-mahātmya style passage where sacred geography (a named site and its emblematic feature) is linked to a liberation-oriented philosophical claim (apunarbhava), reflecting how pilgrimage narratives were used to frame soteriological ideals in classical Sanskrit literature.
The verse names “Mānasa” (mānase), commonly associated in Sanskrit literary geography with the Mānasarovara region; in broader Purāṇic usage it can also function as a sacral toponym indicating a revered ‘Mānasa’ tīrtha.
The verse foregrounds a philosophical instruction rather than a social rule: disciplined seeking (darśana—‘seeing/encountering’ the sacred and the divine) is presented as oriented toward the highest good—attaining paraṃ brahma and the ideal of non-return (freedom from repeated becoming).
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