Shloka 2036
Adhyāya 42 — Mahābhūta–Indriya–Adhyātma-Vyavasthā
Brahmā’s Instruction on Elements and Faculties
अधिभूतं ततो रूपं सूर्यस्तत्राधिदेवतम् । तीसरे भूतका नाम है तेज। नेत्र उसका अध्यात्म, रूप उसका अधिभूत और सूर्य उसका अधिदैवत कहा जाता है
adhibhūtaṃ tato rūpaṃ sūryas tatrādhidaivatam |
Dijo Vāyu-deva: «Luego, en cuanto al ‘adhibhūta’ (el aspecto elemental o externo), es la forma (rūpa); y en cuanto al ‘adhidaivata’ (el principio divino rector) allí, es el Sol. Así, para el tercer elemento—tejas (resplandor/fuego)—se enseña que el ojo es su ‘adhyātma’ (base interior), la forma su ‘adhibhūta’ (campo objetivo) y el Sol su ‘adhidaivata’ (regulador divino)».
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
It maps experience across three levels: the inner basis (adhyātma: the eye), the objective field (adhibhūta: form), and the presiding divine regulator (adhidaivata: the Sun) for the element tejas, showing how perception is ethically and metaphysically ordered rather than random.
Vāyu-deva is instructing by enumerating correspondences between elements, sense-faculties, their objects, and their presiding deities—here identifying form as the object-side and the Sun as the divine presider in relation to sight and tejas.