Varaha Purana 5.42: Adhyaya 5, Shloka 42
Reconciliation of Action and Knowledge: Offering All Acts to Nārāyaṇa and the Hymn to the Yajña-Puruṣa
तस्मात् त्वमपि राजेन्द्र देवं नारायणं प्रभुम् । अभेदेन स्वदेहस्थं पश्यन्नाराधय प्रभुम् ॥ ५.४२ ॥
tasmāt tvam api rājendra devaṃ nārāyaṇaṃ prabhum | abhedena svadehasthaṃ paśyann ārādhaya prabhum || 5.42 ||
तो राजा, तुम भी नारायण भगवान को पूजो। वो तुम्हारे ही शरीर में है, अलग नहीं है। उसी को अपना भगवान मान के पूजा करो।
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It reflects a common Purāṇic instructional mode where ethical and contemplative practice is taught through royal address (rājendra), emphasizing inward devotion alongside public duty in classical Sanskrit literature.
No specific geographic location is named in this verse; the focus is on interiorized contemplation (seeing the deity as present within one’s own body).
The verse instructs disciplined veneration grounded in non-differentiating awareness (abheda): to contemplate the divine as immanent (within oneself) and to align worship with that understanding.
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