Shloka 34
Adhyaya 47 — Brahma’s Awakening and the Ninefold Scheme of Creation
तथोर्ध्वस्रोतसां षष्ठो देवसर्गस्तु स स्मृतः ।
ततोऽर्वाक्स्रोतसां सर्गः सप्तमः स तु मानुषः ॥
tathordhvastrotasāṃ ṣaṣṭho devasargastu sa smṛtaḥ / tator'vākstrotasāṃ sargaḥ saptamaḥ sa tu mānuṣaḥ
De même, la sixième — celle des êtres au courant ascendant (ūrdhva-srotas) — est tenue pour la création des dieux. Puis la création de ceux au courant descendant (arvāk-srotas) est la septième, à savoir la création humaine.
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FAQs
Humans are positioned between animal instinct and divine refinement, implying a duty to redirect one’s ‘current’ upward through discipline, knowledge, and dharma.
Sarga: it continues the vaikṛta enumeration, specifying deva and human creations.
Upward/downward ‘currents’ can be read as tendencies of consciousness: aspiration and luminosity (devas) versus gravitation toward embodiment and desire (humans), inviting inner reorientation.