Shloka 25
प्रियव्रतवंशवर्णनम् — सप्तद्वीपविभागः, जम्बूद्वीप-वर्षविभागः, भरत-नामकरणम्
विपर्ययो न तेष्व् अस्ति जरामृत्युभयं न च धर्माधर्मौ न तेष्व् आस्तां नोत्तमाधममध्यमाः
viparyayo na teṣv asti jarāmṛtyubhayaṃ na ca dharmādharmau na teṣv āstāṃ nottamādhamamadhyamāḥ
Among them there is no inversion or disorder, nor any fear of old age and death. In that state neither merit nor demerit prevails, and distinctions of highest, lowest, or middling do not arise at all.
Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya)
Speaker: Parasara
Topic: Description of the eight kṣetras/regions and their timeless, disorderless condition
Teaching: Cosmological
Quality: authoritative
Concept: Where there is no viparyaya (inversion/disorder), the dualities that drive saṃsāra—fear, decay, karmic merit/demerit, and hierarchical comparison—do not arise.
Vedantic Theme: Moksha
Application: Cultivate inner śānti through discerning transient dualities and practicing even-mindedness (samatā) in praise/blame and gain/loss.
Vishishtadvaita: Hints at a state beyond karmic polarity, consonant with liberation as cessation of doṣa and fear while the self abides in its proper dependence on the Supreme.
Vishnu Form: Para-Brahman
Bhakti Type: Shanta
FAQs
It describes a condition prior to moral dualities—where action-based merit and demerit do not operate because differentiated worldly life (with choice, duty, and consequence) has not yet manifested.
He characterizes an ideal or primordial state in which the usual marks of embodied existence—aging, mortality, and fear—are absent, indicating a plane untouched by temporal decay.
Within Vaishnava cosmology, such a state ultimately rests in the sovereignty of Vishnu as the sustaining Supreme Reality, beyond worldly oppositions that arise only after creation and time-conditioned embodiment.