Shloka 1
/ ऑपन-माज बछ। डे त्रिषष्ट्याधिकत्रिशततमो< ध्याय: उज्छ एवं शिलवृत्तिसे सिद्ध हुए पुरुषकी दिव्य गति सूर्य उवाच नैष देवोडनिलसखो नासुरो न च पन्नग: । उज्छवृत्तिव्रते सिद्धो मुनिरेष दिवं गत:
Sūrya uvāca—naiṣa devo ’nilasakho nāsuro na ca pannagaḥ | ucchiṣṭavṛttivrate siddho munir eṣa divaṃ gataḥ ||
सूर्यदेव बोले—“यह न तो वायु के सखा (अग्निदेव) हैं, न कोई असुर हैं और न ही नाग। उच्छवृत्ति-व्रत से सिद्धि प्राप्त करने वाले ये मुनि हैं, जो दिव्यलोक को प्राप्त हुए हैं।”
सूर्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
Spiritual attainment and a higher destiny are achieved through disciplined ethical living—here, the austere vow of ucchiṣṭa-vṛtti—rather than through birth as a god, asura, or nāga. The verse elevates restraint and right livelihood as a path to divine attainment.
Surya identifies a being who has reached heaven. He clarifies that the figure is not a deity (nor Agni as ‘friend of Wind’), not an asura, and not a serpent-being; rather, he is a human sage who became perfected through the vow of sustaining himself on gleanings/leftovers and thus attained the heavenly realm.