Shloka 1
/ ऑपन-माज बछ। डे त्रिषष्ट्याधिकत्रिशततमो< ध्याय: उज्छ एवं शिलवृत्तिसे सिद्ध हुए पुरुषकी दिव्य गति सूर्य उवाच नैष देवोडनिलसखो नासुरो न च पन्नग: । उज्छवृत्तिव्रते सिद्धो मुनिरेष दिवं गत:
Sūrya uvāca—naiṣa devo ’nilasakho nāsuro na ca pannagaḥ | ucchiṣṭavṛttivrate siddho munir eṣa divaṃ gataḥ ||
Dijo Sūrya: “Este no es un dios—ni el amigo del Viento—ni un asura, ni siquiera un ser serpentino. Es un sabio que, perfeccionado por el voto de vivir de los restos recogidos (ucchiṣṭa-vṛtti), ha alcanzado la realización y ahora ha llegado a la morada celeste.”
सूर्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Spiritual attainment and a higher destiny are achieved through disciplined ethical living—here, the austere vow of ucchiṣṭa-vṛtti—rather than through birth as a god, asura, or nāga. The verse elevates restraint and right livelihood as a path to divine attainment.
Surya identifies a being who has reached heaven. He clarifies that the figure is not a deity (nor Agni as ‘friend of Wind’), not an asura, and not a serpent-being; rather, he is a human sage who became perfected through the vow of sustaining himself on gleanings/leftovers and thus attained the heavenly realm.