Varaha Purana 149.28: Adhyaya 149, Shloka 28
The Sacred Geography and Merit of Dvārakā
Uttara Bhāga · Tīrtha-Māhātmya (Prabhāsa / Sāgara-tīra)
मनुजा यं न पश्यन्ति रागलोभसमन्विताः ॥ तत्र स्नानं प्रकुर्वीत पञ्चभक्तोषितो नरः ॥
manujā yaṃ na paśyanti rāgalobhasamanvitāḥ || tatra snānaṃ prakurvīta pañcabhaktoṣito naraḥ ||
manujA yaM na pashyanti rAgalobhasamanvitAH || tatra snAnaM prakurvIta paMchabhaktoShito naraH
लोग राग और लोभ में फंसे रहते हैं, वो यह बात समझते नहीं। इसलिए यहाँ पानी में नहाना चाहिए। पहले पाँच दिन तक भक्ति करो, फिर स्नान करो।
Sandhi Notes
- manujā = manujāḥ (visarga-lopa before yaṃ)
- rāgalobhasamanvitāḥ resolved as rāga-lobha-samanvitāḥ
- pañcabhaktoṣito = pañca-bhakta-uṣitaḥ (oṣ = a+u sandhi)
Varāha
Seeking clarity; concerned about beings blinded by desire
How can one perceive and access the subtle benefit of the place that passion and greed conceal?
Rāga and lobha distort perception; disciplined bhakti restores the capacity to recognize sacred reality and receive grace.
Adopt a structured devotional routine during pilgrimage (e.g., śauca, japa, pūjā, sat-saṅga, ahiṃsā/niyama) and perform snāna with focused intention.
Varāha prescribes a disciplined practice (residence + fivefold bhakti + snāna) to enable perception of the subtle sacred reality obscured by rāga-lobha.
One should reside with fivefold devotional observance (pañca-bhakti) and then perform ritual bathing at the site unseen by the passion-greed bound.
Discipline purifies perception and yields tīrtha-phala; neglect and rāga-lobha keep one spiritually blind to the site’s reality.
Eligibility to perceive the subtle sanctity and gain the purifying fruit of snāna (implied pāpa-kṣaya/adhyātmika-siddhi).
Varāha Purāṇa 149.28–29 (greed vs true fruit; bhāgavata qualification)
FAQs
It pairs moral psychology (rāga/lobha) with tīrtha-practice, illustrating how Purāṇic pilgrimage literature integrates ethical cultivation with place-based ritual.
The same tīrtha locus under discussion in Adhyāya 149 (Prabhāsa coastal region), with emphasis on its subtlety or difficulty of perception for the ethically distracted.
Reduce attachment and greed; undertake disciplined observance alongside ritual bathing.
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