Shloka 24
Vidura’s Questions: How the Unchangeable Lord Relates to Māyā; Bhakti as the Remedy; Blueprint for the Coming Cosmology
यत्र पुत्रैश्च पौत्रैश्च नप्तृभि: सह गोत्रजै: । प्रजा विचित्राकृतय आसन् याभिरिदं ततम् ॥ २४ ॥
yatra putraiś ca pautraiś ca naptṛbhiḥ saha gotrajaiḥ prajā vicitrākṛtaya āsan yābhir idaṁ tatam
हे प्रभो! मुझे प्रतीत होता है कि पुत्र, पौत्र, नप्तृ तथा गोत्रजों के रूप में प्रजा की यह प्रक्रिया विविध आकृतियों और जातियों में प्रकट होकर समस्त ब्रह्माण्ड में फैल गई है।
FAQs
This verse says that through expanding generations—sons, grandsons, and further descendants—variegated living beings appear, and by them the universe becomes filled.
Śukadeva Gosvāmī speaks this verse while narrating to King Parīkṣit, continuing the account of creation and the spread of living beings.
It encourages reverence for life’s diversity—seeing different bodies and species as part of a purposeful cosmic order rather than as meaningless variety.