Shloka 7
आत्यन्तिक-लयहेतुः: तापत्रय-विवेचनम् तथा ‘भगवान्/वासुदेव’ शब्दार्थः
Threefold Suffering and the Path to Final Liberation; Meaning of Bhagavān and Vāsudeva
मृगपक्षिमनुष्याद्यैः पिशाचोरगराक्षसैः सरीसृपाद्यैश् च नृणां जन्यन्ते चाधिभौतिकः
mṛgapakṣimanuṣyādyaiḥ piśācoragarākṣasaiḥ sarīsṛpādyaiś ca nṛṇāṃ janyante cādhibhautikaḥ
મૃગ, પક્ષી, મનુષ્ય વગેરે, પિશાચ, સર્પ, રાક્ષસ તથા સરીસૃપાદિ જીવોથી મનુષ્યોને જે પીડા થાય છે તે ‘અધિભૌતિક’ દુઃખ કહેવાય છે।
Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya)
FAQs
It classifies suffering that comes from other living beings—animals, humans, and hostile entities—showing how embodied life is affected by the surrounding world within cosmic order.
He explains that one category of distress arises externally through interactions and harms caused by other creatures and beings, distinguishing it from inner and divine/elemental causes.
Even while describing suffering, the Purana frames the world as governed by a higher order; Vishnu stands as the supreme sustaining reality within which karmic experience and cosmic regulation unfold.