Varaha Purana 210.48: Adhyaya 210, Shloka 48
Inquiry into Moral Agency (Karma) and Practical Means for the Dissolution of Sin: the Śiśumāra Contemplation
Uttara Bhāga · Śiśumāra–Chandra–Sūrya Darśana (Expiation and Contemplative Cosmology)
यदा तस्य शरीरस्थं सोमं पश्येत्समाहितः ॥ महापातकनाशस्तु तदा तस्य विधीयते ॥
yadā tasya śarīrasthaṃ somaṃ paśyet samāhitaḥ | mahāpātakanāśas tu tadā tasya vidhīyate ||
yadA tasya sharIrasthaM somaM pashyetsamAhitaH || mahApAtakanAshastu tadA tasya vidhIyate
जब कोई ध्यान से उस शरीर में सोम को देखता है। तब उसके बड़े-बड़े पाप खत्म हो जाते हैं। यह पक्का है।
Sandhi Notes
- पश्येत् समाहितः (no mandatory sandhi)
- महापातकनाशस्तु = महापातकनाशः + तु
Varāha
Sin is attenuated by disciplined inner vision that integrates the self with the cosmic body and its deities.
Practice focused visualization/meditation on Soma’s placement in the Śiśumāra form with mental steadiness (samāhita-citta) as an expiatory discipline.
Microcosm–macrocosm identity: the astral deity (Soma) is realized ‘within the body’ of the cosmic form (Śiśumāra), implying that inner yogic/ritual vision of the cosmos functions as purification.
Soma as a purifying, soma-yajña principle located in the cosmic body; ‘seeing within’ parallels internalized sacrifice (antar-yajña) where deities are installed in limbs/regions.
Antaryāmin/adhyātma reading: purification arises from contemplative knowledge (jñāna-yukta upāsanā) that aligns the individual with the cosmic order (ṛta/dharma).
With a concentrated mind, contemplate/see Soma positioned within the Śiśumāra-body configuration; this is taught as an expiatory means that destroys mahāpātakas.
Proper contemplative vision leads to destruction of great sins; negligence implies continued bondage to grave demerit.
Varāha Purāṇa 210.54–57 (continued body–astral placements and fruits)
FAQs
The verse exemplifies a Purāṇic strategy of moral pedagogy through cosmological visualization, pairing astral mapping with the language of expiation (mahāpātaka).
No geographic location is specified; the passage is cosmological/visual rather than topographical.
Cultivating focused attention (samāhita) in contemplation is framed as ethically transformative, associated with the removal of grave wrongdoing.
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