Shloka 73
Atithi-prāpti and the Brāhmaṇa’s Deliberation on Triadic Dharma (अतिथिप्राप्तिः धर्मत्रयविचारश्च)
सप्तैते मानसा: प्रोक्ता ऋषयो ब्रह्मण: सुता: । स्वयमागततविज्ञाना निवृत्तिं धर्ममास्थिता:
saptaite mānasāḥ proktā ṛṣayo brahmaṇaḥ sutāḥ | svayam āgatavijñānā nivṛttiṁ dharmam āsthitāḥ ||
Vaiśampāyana said: “These seven are declared to be mind-born sages, sons of Brahmā. Knowledge has arisen in them of itself, and they abide in the dharma of renunciation—turned away from worldly striving and established in inner withdrawal.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse elevates the ideal of nivṛtti-dharma: sages who are inwardly withdrawn and established in renunciation, guided by self-arisen discriminative knowledge rather than by worldly aims.
Vaiśampāyana identifies a group of seven primordial sages as Brahmā’s mind-born sons and characterizes them as naturally enlightened beings devoted to the renunciant path.