Shloka 53
तांश्व सर्वान् मयोदिष्टान् द्रक्ष्य्से तपसान्वित: । पुनर्द्क्ष्सि चानेकसहस्रयुगपर्ययान्,“भूत, वर्तमान और भविष्यके सभी विषयोंमें तुम्हारा संशय नष्ट हो जायगा। पहले जो सहस्न-युगोंके कल्प व्यतीत हो चुके हैं, उन सबको मेरी आज्ञासे तुम देख सकोगे और तपोबलसे सम्पन्न बने रहोगे। भविष्यमें होनेवाले अनेक कल्प भी तुम्हें दृष्टिगोचर होंगे
Vaiśampāyana uvāca: tān sarvān mayodiṣṭān drakṣyase tapasānvitāḥ | punar drakṣyasi cāneka-sahasra-yuga-paryayān ||
Vaiśampāyana said: “Endowed with ascetic power, you will behold all those matters that I have indicated. You will also see the revolutions of many thousands of yugas again—so that your doubt regarding all things past, present, and future will be dispelled, and the vast cycles of time, both already elapsed and yet to come, will become directly evident to you.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Ascetic discipline (tapas) is presented as a means to direct insight into the vast cycles of time; such vision removes doubt by grounding understanding in experiential knowledge rather than speculation.
Vaiśampāyana reports a promise or boon: the listener (implicitly addressed as “you”) will, through tapas and by the speaker’s instruction, gain the capacity to perceive innumerable yuga-cycles—both those already elapsed and those yet to come—thereby resolving uncertainty about past, present, and future.