Varaha Purana 211.15: Adhyaya 211, Shloka 15
Methods for the Removal of Sin and the Eulogy of Prabodhinī Ekādaśī/Dvādaśī
Uttara Bhāga · Sūrya-upāsanā / Concept of pāpa being burned away
तस्य भानुः प्रसन्नश्च ह्यशुभं यत्समर्जितम् ॥ तस्य भानुः स संदह्य दूरीकुर्यात्सदा द्विज ॥
tasya bhānuḥ prasannaś ca hy aśubhaṁ yat samarjitam || tasya bhānuḥ sa saṁdahya dūrīkuryāt sadā dvija ||
tasya bhAnuH prasannashcha hyashubhaM yatsamarjitam || tasya bhAnuH sa saMdahya dUrIkuryAtsadA dvija
सूरज उसपर खुश हो जाता है। जो भी बुरी बातें जमा हुई हैं, सूरज उनको जला के दूर भेज देता है। यह हमेशा होता है, बेटा।
Sandhi Notes
- hy aśubham = hi + aśubham
- yatsamarjitam = yat + samarjitam
- dūrīkuryāt = dūrī + kuryāt (kṛ optative)
Varāha
Divine favor (prasāda) converts cosmic power into personal purification; moral stains are not only ‘paid’ but ‘burned’ by higher light.
Cultivate steady devotion and disciplined practice so that ‘prasāda’ becomes operative—pair ritual with ethical restraint.
The ‘burning’ metaphor frames divine light as moral fire: tejas consumes pāpa like agni consumes offerings, translating cosmic luminosity into ethical purification.
Bhānu as agni-like purifier: aśubha is treated as fuel; grace is the ignition; distance (‘dūrīkurvāt’) echoes apotropaic rites that expel impurity beyond the boundary.
Light as knowledge: avidyā-born impurity is dispelled by the ‘sun’ of discernment; devotion stabilizes the mind so that illuminating insight can operate.
For the disciplined worshipper, the Sun becomes pleased and burns away accumulated inauspiciousness, driving it far off.
Solar grace results in aśubha-dāha (burning of impurity); lack of such alignment leaves aśubha intact.
Varāha Purāṇa 211.14-15 (devotion and offerings as causes of purification)
FAQs
It exemplifies a common Indic ethical-cosmological model where natural phenomena (sunlight) are framed as agents of purification, linking ritual practice with moral psychology.
No location is specified; the verse uses cosmological imagery rather than sacred geography.
Sustained reverent practice is presented as transforming one’s moral condition, symbolized by the Sun’s removal of accumulated negativity.
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