Shloka 6
Jvarotpatti — The Origin and Distribution of Jvara
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परमात्माकी प्रेरणासे काल इन पाँच तत्त्वोंद्वारा समस्त प्राणियोंकी सृष्टि करता है। जो इनसे भिन्न किसी अन्य तत्त्वको प्राणियोंके शरीरोंका उपादान कारण बताता है, वह निस्संदेह झूठी बात कहता है ।। विद्धि नारद पज्चैतान् शाश्वतानचलान ध्रुवान् महतस्तेजसो राशीन् कालषष्ठान् स्वभावत:
viddhi nārada pañcaitān śāśvatān acalān dhruvān | mahatas tejaso rāśīn kāla-ṣaṣṭhān svabhāvataḥ ||
Asita said: “Know, O Nārada, these five to be eternal, unmoving, and steadfast—great masses of luminous energy. By their very nature, when joined with Time, they stand as the sixfold principle. It is through Time, impelled by the Supreme Self, that creation proceeds by means of these elements; whoever claims some other substance as the material cause of embodied beings speaks falsely.”
असित उवाच
Educational Q&A
Creation of embodied beings proceeds through the five elemental principles, with Time functioning as a sixth factor; attributing the body’s material cause to anything other than these is presented as false.
In a didactic exchange, Asita instructs Nārada on cosmological principles: the five enduring elemental ‘masses of tejas’ and the role of Time, under the Supreme Self’s impetus, in bringing forth living beings.