Shloka 15
अन्रैव प्रतितिष्ठन्ति पुनरेवोदयन्ति च । सप्त देवर्षयस्तात वसिष्ठप्रमुखा: सदा,“तात! वसिष्ठ आदि सात देवर्षि इन्हीं प्रजापतिमें लीन होते और पुनः इन्हींसे प्रकट होते हैं
anraiva pratitiṣṭhanti punarevodayanti ca | sapta devarṣayastāta vasiṣṭhapramukhāḥ sadā ||
Vaiśampāyana said: “Dear one, the seven divine seers—foremost among them Vasiṣṭha—ever merge into that very Prajāpati as their resting ground, and again arise from him. Thus their existence is shown as cyclic: dissolution into the cosmic source and renewed manifestation from it.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents a cosmological principle: even the highest sages have a cyclical relation to the cosmic progenitor (Prajāpati)—they dissolve into the source and re-emerge from it—highlighting periodic creation and dissolution rather than a one-time origin.
Vaiśampāyana explains to his listener that the seven divine sages, led by Vasiṣṭha, repeatedly enter into (become absorbed in) Prajāpati and then manifest again from him, describing their continual cosmic rhythm of withdrawal and reappearance.