Shloka 74
Aṣṭāvakra’s Visit to Kubera: Hospitality, Temptation, and the Ethics of Restraint (अष्टावक्र-वैश्रवणोपाख्यानम्)
अग्रया बुद्धिर्मनसा दर्शने च स्पर्शक्षाग्रय: कर्मणां या च सिद्धि: । गणा देवानामूष्मपा: सोमपाश्न लेखा: सुयामास्तुषिता ब्रह्मुकाया:
agrayā buddhir manasā darśane ca sparśakṣāgrayāḥ karmaṇāṁ yā ca siddhiḥ | gaṇā devānām ūṣmapāḥ somapāś ca lekhāḥ suyāmās tuṣitā brahmukāyāḥ ||
Dijo Vāyu-deva: «Entre las facultades internas, lo primero es el intelecto superior (buddhi) y la mente (manas), junto con los poderes de la vista y del tacto; y primera es también la realización (siddhi) por la cual las acciones alcanzan el cumplimiento que se proponen. Asimismo, entre las huestes divinas están los que ‘beben’ el calor (ūṣmapāḥ), los que participan del Soma (somapāḥ), y las clases llamadas Lekhas, Suyāmas, Tuṣitas y los seres de cuerpo brahmánico.»
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse links inner mastery (buddhi, manas, and the senses) with the successful completion of action (siddhi), and then situates these human faculties within a broader cosmic order by naming prominent classes of divine beings—suggesting that both ethical action and spiritual understanding belong to an ordered hierarchy.
Vāyu-deva is speaking and enumerating ‘foremost’ faculties and notable divine groups. The passage functions as part of a larger catalog of cosmic principles and celestial classes, reinforcing a theological-cosmological frame for dharma and the workings of action and attainment.