Shloka 49
Nāga-āyatana-darśana-pratīkṣā — The Brāhmaṇa’s Request and Waiting on the Gomatī
यैर्लक्षणैरुपेत: स हरिरव्यक्तरूपधृक् | तैर्लक्षणैरुपेतौ हि व्यक्तरूपधरौ युवाम्
nārada uvāca | yair lakṣaṇair upetaḥ sa harir avyaktarūpadhṛk | tair lakṣaṇair upetau hi vyaktarūpadharau yuvām |
Nārada dit : «Le Seigneur Hari, qui porte une forme non manifestée, était pourvu de signes distinctifs. Vous deux, bien que revêtus de formes manifestes, êtes en vérité ornés de ces mêmes signes. Et maintenant encore, en vous contemplant—Personnes éternelles—il me semble revoir la vision du Seigneur qui demeure à Śvetadvīpa.»
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse emphasizes recognition of the one divine reality across different modes of appearance: the same sacred ‘marks’ that signify Hari in an unmanifest state are present in manifest embodiments as well, teaching continuity of divine identity beyond form.
Nārada addresses two manifest ‘eternal persons’ and says that seeing them recalls his earlier vision of Hari in Śvetadvīpa; he identifies them by the same distinguishing signs he observed in the Lord’s unmanifest form.