Shloka 79
Adhyaya 49 — Primordial Human Creation, the Rise of Desire, and the Origins of Settlements, Measures, and Agriculture
अष्टाशीति सहस्राणामृषीणामूर्ध्वरेतसाम् ।
स्मृतं तेषान्तु यत् स्थानं तदेव गुरुवासिनाम् ॥
aṣṭāśīti-sahasrāṇām ṛṣīṇām ūrdhva-retasām | smṛtaṃ teṣāṃ tu yat sthānaṃ tad eva guru-vāsinām ||
ऊर्ध्वरेतस्—अर्थात् ब्रह्मचर्य-निष्ठ—अट्ठासी हजार मुनियों के लिए जो धाम कहा गया है, वही धाम गुरु के साथ निवास करने वालों (गुरु-सेवकों) के लिए भी कहा गया है।
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FAQs
The verse equates the spiritual fruit of austere continence with devoted discipleship: disciplined self-restraint and sustained service to a realized teacher are both treated as high-yield paths of purification.
This is dharma/ācāra instruction (conduct and its fruits), not a direct sarga/pratisarga or vaṃśa enumeration. Purāṇas often interleave such conduct-teachings alongside cosmological and genealogical material.
“Ūrdhva-retas” implies sublimation of creative force into higher awareness; “guru-vāsa” implies transmission through proximity and obedience. Both point to transformation of desire into knowledge.