Shloka 80
द्रक्ष्यामि तेषाम् अपि चेत् प्रसूतिं मनोरथो मे भविता ततो ऽन्यः पूर्णे ऽपि तत्राप्य् अपरस्य जन्म निवार्यते केन मनोरथस्य
drakṣyāmi teṣām api cet prasūtiṃ manoratho me bhavitā tato 'nyaḥ pūrṇe 'pi tatrāpy aparasya janma nivāryate kena manorathasya
Even if I were to behold the birth of their progeny, another desire would arise in me after that. For even when one wish is fulfilled, who can prevent the mind from giving birth to yet another longing?
Maitreya (addressing Sage Parāśara, expressing the mind’s unending curiosity/desire to know)
Concept: Fulfillment does not terminate craving; desire self-replicates, so only disciplined restraint and higher aim can ‘prevent’ its next birth.
Vedantic Theme: Moksha
Application: Adopt deliberate ‘enough’ practices—limits on consumption, periodic fasting/vrata, and redirecting aspiration into bhakti and seva.
Vishishtadvaita: Supports the Vishishtadvaita move from finite satisfactions to the infinite satisfaction of Bhagavān: desires end by re-centering will in loving surrender (śaraṇāgati).
Vishnu Form: Para-Brahman
Bhakti Type: Shanta
FAQs
This verse highlights how one answered question generates the next—explaining why the Purana proceeds from creation into further births, lineages, and cycles.
Within the Parāśara–Maitreya dialogue, the student’s ever-renewing inquiry becomes the device that draws out successive layers of cosmology and genealogy.
By contrasting endless human longing with the ordered unfolding of the cosmos, the text implicitly points to Vishnu as the stable sovereign principle behind the proliferating world of births and desires.