Shloka 67
Devadāru (Dāruvana) Forest: The Delusion of Ritual Pride, the Liṅga Crisis, and the Teaching of Jñāna–Pāśupata Yoga
देवतानामृषीणां च पितॄणां चापि शाश्वतः / सहस्रयुगपर्यन्ते प्रलये सर्वदेहिनाम् / संहरत्येष भगवान् कालो भूत्वा महेश्वरः
devatānāmṛṣīṇāṃ ca pitṝṇāṃ cāpi śāśvataḥ / sahasrayugaparyante pralaye sarvadehinām / saṃharatyeṣa bhagavān kālo bhūtvā maheśvaraḥ
देवताओं, ऋषियों और पितरों सहित समस्त देहधारियों का—हज़ार युगों के अंत में होने वाले प्रलय के समय—यह शाश्वत भगवान महेश्वर कालरूप होकर सबको अपने में संहर लेता है।
Lord Kūrma (Vishnu) teaching in a Śaiva-Vaiṣṇava framework (Iśvara as Kāla/Maheśvara)
Primary Rasa: bhayanaka
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
It presents the Supreme as the eternal Lord who transcends all classes of beings and, as Time itself, reabsorbs the entire embodied cosmos—implying a single sovereign reality behind creation, preservation, and dissolution.
While not prescribing a technique directly, it supports Pāśupata-style renunciation and inwardness: meditation on Iśvara as Kāla cultivates vairāgya (dispassion) by revealing the impermanence of all embodied states, even divine and ancestral realms.
The speaker (Kūrma/Vishnu) describes the dissolving power as Maheśvara and Kāla, conveying the Purāṇic non-sectarian synthesis where the one Iśvara is spoken of through both Vaiṣṇava and Śaiva names and functions.