Shloka 43

Devanagari script

सृष्टिस्थितिविनाशानां शक्तयः सर्वदेहिषु वैष्णव्यः परिवर्तन्ते मैत्रेयाहर्निशं सदा

Transliteration

sṛṣṭisthitivināśānāṃ śaktayaḥ sarvadehiṣu vaiṣṇavyaḥ parivartante maitreyāharniśaṃ sadā

Translation

O Maitreya, within all embodied beings the Vaiṣṇava powers—the energies of creation, preservation, and dissolution—unceasingly turn and operate, day and night.

Word by Word

• सृष्टि-स्थिति-विनाशानाम्: of creation, maintenance, and destruction
• सृष्टि-स्थिति-विनाशानाम्: Sambandha (Genitive/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सृष्टि (प्रातिपदिक) + स्थिति (प्रातिपदिक) + विनाश (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग/स्त्रीलिङ्ग-समाहारः, षष्ठी (6th/षष्ठी), बहुवचन; समासः—इतरेतर-द्वन्द्वः, ततः षष्ठी-बहुवचन-प्रत्ययः

• शक्तयः: powers, energies
• शक्तयः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: शक्ति (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), बहुवचन

• सर्व-देहिषु: in all embodied beings
• सर्व-देहिषु: Adhikarana (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सर्व (प्रातिपदिक) + देहिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/सप्तमी), बहुवचन; समासः—कर्मधारय/तत्पुरुष (सर्वे देहिनः)

• वैष्णव्यः: Vishnu-related, Vaiṣṇavī
• वैष्णव्यः: Visheshana (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वैष्णवी (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/प्रथमा), बहुवचन; विशेषणम् (शक्तयः इति)

• परिवर्तन्ते: operate/turn about, function
• परिवर्तन्ते: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: परि√वृत् (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), बहुवचन; आत्मनेपदम्

• मैत्रेय: O Maitreya
• मैत्रेय: Sambodhana (Address/सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मैत्रेय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Vocative/सम्बोधन), एकवचन

• अहर्निशम्: day and night
• अहर्निशम्: Kala-adhikarana (Time/कालाधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अहन् (प्रातिपदिक) + निशा (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्ययम्; समासः—अव्ययीभावः (अहः च निशा च = दिनरात्रम्), क्रियाविशेषणम्

• सदा: always
• सदा: Kala-adhikarana (Time/कालाधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सदा (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्ययम्; कालवाचक-क्रियाविशेषणम्

Speaker

Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya)

Parashara-Maitreya Dialogue

Speaker: Parasara

Topic: How Viṣṇu’s śaktis operate within embodied beings as creation, maintenance, and dissolution.

Teaching: Cosmological

Quality: authoritative

Philosophical Teaching

Concept: In all embodied beings, Viṣṇu’s powers of creation, sustenance, and dissolution continuously operate as the inner governance of life.

Vedantic Theme: Brahman

Application: Contemplate daily change (birth, growth, decay) as divine regulation and cultivate steadiness and reverence toward all beings.

Vishishtadvaita: Affirms the Antaryāmin: the Lord’s śakti pervades and governs all bodies without negating their real dependence on Him.

Vaishnava Theology

Vishnu Form: Hari

Bhakti Type: Shanta

Antaryamin: Yes

Jagat Karana: Yes

Characters & Entities

• Vishnu
• All embodied beings (sarva-dehin)

FAQs

What is the significance of sṛṣṭi-sthiti-vināśa (creation, preservation, dissolution) in the Vishnu Purana?

This verse presents them as ever-active divine functions—Vishnu’s powers continuously governing change in all embodied beings, not merely as distant cosmic events.

How does Sage Parāśara explain divine governance within living beings?

Parāśara teaches that Vaishnava energies operate internally in every body, ceaselessly shaping origination, continuance, and ending as part of the Supreme’s orderly rule.

What is the theological importance of Lord Vishnu in this context?

Vishnu is affirmed as the Supreme Reality whose shakti pervades all beings, making cosmic order and life-processes expressions of His sustaining sovereignty.