Shloka 143
रुद्र-स्तवराजः (Rudra-Stavarāja) — Exempla of Śiva’s Boons and the Hymn’s Phalaśruti
सदसद् व्यक्तमव्यक्तं पिता माता पितामह: । स्वर्गद्धारं प्रजाद्वारं मोक्षद्वारं त्रिविष्टपम्
sadasad vyaktam avyaktam pitā mātā pitāmahaḥ | svargadvāraṁ prajādvāraṁ mokṣadvāraṁ trivīṣṭapam ||
Dijo Vāyu: «Es a la vez ser y no-ser; lo manifiesto y lo inmanifiesto. Es padre, madre y abuelo primordial. Es la puerta del cielo, la puerta de la descendencia y la puerta de la liberación; en verdad, es Triviṣṭapa (el cielo) mismo».
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents a single supreme principle as all-encompassing: it transcends dualities (being/non-being, manifest/unmanifest), underlies lineage and generation (father/mother/grandsire), and functions as the effective means toward the highest human aims—heavenly merit, progeny/continuity, and liberation.
Vāyudeva is speaking in a didactic context within the Anuśāsana Parva, offering a compact, exalted description of the ultimate reality (or highest object of reverence) by listing its cosmic, familial, and soteriological dimensions.